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A Republican senator hammered President Biden on Sunday for withholding weapons from Israel, which he claimed has inadvertently “strengthened” the Hamas terror group. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-NE, said the Biden administration’s decision to withhold high payload bombs from Israel “just demonstrates their incompetence.” He also compared the current conflict with Hamas to how Biden handled Afghanistan, saying he was “absolutely …

The White House on Monday pushed back on reports from the Times of Israel and Washington Post that it is offering “sensitive intelligence” to Israel on the whereabouts of Hamas leaders, if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declines to engage in a full-scale invasion of Rafah. President Biden has in recent days warned Israel against incurring into the southern Gaza city, …

A U.S. Army officer assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency resigned from his position in protest over the United States’ support of Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza. The Army confirmed to Fox News that Maj. Harrison Mann requested to resign from his position in November. “The policy that has never been far from my mind the last …

UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron called on the BBC to its face to label Hamas a terrorist group during an interview Sunday, wondering what the organization had to do to be branded that way by the British public broadcaster. “When you see what Hamas are prepared to do, you just realize the terrible, dreadful, inhuman people, frankly, that we are …

Students at Princeton University protesting Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza have called an end to their hunger strike after just 10 days. Princeton Divest Now, the student protest group that is calling for the New Jersey Ivy League university to divest from America’s Middle Eastern ally due to the high civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip, said additional …

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered one of the Biden administration’s strongest public rebukes of Israel, amid its war with Hamas in Gaza. During a pair of TV interviews, Blinken said the United States wants Israeli forces to “get out of Gaza” amid what he described as “a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians.” He also said …

JERUSALEM – In a dramatic shift, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) hasrevised its data pertaining to the number of Palestiniancasualties in the seven-month-old Gaza war, reducing almost by half the number of women and children it previously said were killed in the hostilities between Israel and the Iranian-backed terror group Hamas. According to an …

Former Obama adviser Van Jones argued that while some young people are angry about President Biden’s foreign policy stance on the war between Israel and Hamas, they have been outraged for years about their economic situation at home. “It should be a wake-up call,” CNN senior political commentator Jones said Monday of new polling on CNN News Central. “Young people …

Tempers flared on NBC Sunday when South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham debated anchor Kristen Welker over the Biden administration possibly withholding weapons to Israel. After Welker cited “military officials” who agreed with stopping weapons shipments to Israel as it wages war in Gaza, Graham lambasted the anchor and the officials she cited. “These military officials that you’re talking about are …

State Department spokesman Vedant Patel stressed on Monday that no conclusions have been reached by the U.S. on whether Israel possibly violated international law in Gaza after a critical report on Friday. “The report makes clear that this is a very complex and complicated battlefield. It is a very dense and urban setting. We are also dealing with the belligerent, …