As the ceasefire-for-hostages agreement went into effect over the weekend, Hamas terrorists – now wearing uniforms and green headbands, no longer disguising themselves as civilians – ascended from their multimillion-dollar tunnels, held their weapons high, and rode through the streets of Gaza in fully fueled vehicles.

Actual civilians also were out on the streets celebrating. In online videos you can see that they're well-fed and energetic. Many have cell phones and some carry fancy cameras.

Ask yourself: Do these people look like victims of genocide?

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When scholars look back at the foreign policy of the last administration, they're liable to conclude that the "Biden Doctrine," to the extent that there was one, wasn't an elaborate, ambitious and well-thought-out affair, the way some pundits have suggested. Rather, it was a series of tactical responses to world events — responses that were ultimately undermined by the White House's fear of adverse consequences.

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In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise's character must train a team of hotshot pilots to take out a facility in an unnamed country with snow-covered mountains. Were they training for a mission in Switzerland? Hollywood was so wary of having any villains identified in this one that pilots from the generic foreign adversary were literally faceless. Maverick was actually a better film than the original Top Gun —rewatch the original before complaining — but one aspect of the original that far surpassed the sequel was the thrill of seeing Cruise flip the bird to his clearly identified Russian adversaries.

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Early last month, shortly after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, Israel took a step that dramatically altered the strategic landscape of the entire region.

Quietly and without any prior indications, the IDF entered the buffer zone on the Golan Heights separating Israel and Syria and liberated the highest peak of Mount Hermon, raising the blue-and-white banner over the tallest mountain in either country.

And while Israeli officials were quick to insist that the move was temporary, it would be a grave mistake to forgo this territory.

For both strategic and historical reasons, the Jewish state should annex all of the newly acquired parts of Mount Hermon and formally incorporate them into Israel.

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Nothing lasts forever. Hezbollah's self-proclaimed "Era of Victories"—which the group inaugurated after the May 2000 Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon—appears to have run its course. Its new Secretary-General Naim Qassem just confessed in a televised address that Hezbollah's lifeline through Syria is now gone, thanks to the downfall of the Assad regime.

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It's been a very bad month for terrorists and their sympathizers.

No matter how you feel about the president-elect, Donald Trump has made it clear that, when it comes to the Palestinians, his administration is going to do things differently. His appointments of Mike Huckabee as his incoming ambassador to Israel, of Steve Witkoff as envoy to the Middle East, and of Pete Hegseth as his secretary of defense speak volumes, suggesting that the president is about to dispense with decades of perceived wisdom.

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Though Hurricanes Helene and Milton killed at least 24 people in Florida, caused over an estimated $50 billion worth of damage to homes and infrastructure, and left millions of residents without water and power, Palm Beach, one of the state's wealthiest enclaves, escaped the giant storms' wrath. Yet all is not well in Paradise South, home to some of the nation's wealthiest citizens.

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The Biden administration's decision to cut off weapons supplies to Israel during the war in Gaza has raised concerns that the Jewish state is overly dependent on the United States for its security. Washington has supplied Israel with more than 10,000 tons of munitions since October 7, 2023, when Hamas murdered more than 1,200 Israelis. However, the White House has threatened to suspend further arms transfers to restrain the Israeli military by conditioning how American armaments can be used against Hamas and Hezbollah, the Iranian- backed terrorist proxy in Lebanon.

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I can't believe we're having this discussion in September 2023, just as the fall respiratory virus season commences and we're experiencing a new wave of COVID-19, but the politicizers of COVID won't let up. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) this week introduced legislation that "would prohibit any federal official, including the President, from issuing mask mandates applying to domestic air travel, public transit systems, or primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools."

There was also the ill-timed article by John Tierney in City Journal on August 27th claiming that "maskaholics are incorrigible" and everyone should reject masks because "we're rational."

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While the ongoing protests in Syria's southern province of al-Suwayda' against the Syrian government and its policies are noteworthy, the tribal uprising in the eastern countryside of the eastern province of Dayr al-Zur against the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is arguably of greater significance, as it amounts to an actual armed revolt that has posed a serious challenge to the SDF's authority over the area- an authority that was only established because of the American-led campaign against the Islamic State. In turn the revolt raises very serious issues about U.S. policy in the region and the supposed ongoing American mission to ensure the "enduring defeat" of the Islamic State.

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