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During a recent interview with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Tucker Carlson tried as hard as he could to make Israel look bad, at one point framing teenage Hamas operatives as victims of Israeli aggression.
This kind of rhetoric ignores a brutal reality.
Hamas openly recruits, indoctrinates, and deploys minors as active combatants. This is an unconscionable practice and the death of any teenage combatant is entirely the fault of Hamas.
A gun or bomb in the hands of a teenager can kill just the same as it would in the hands of an adult.
The real tragedy is that Hamas robs children of their childhood by turning them into soldiers. The responsibility for that lies with the terror group that weaponizes youth, not with Israelis who are forced to defend themselves.
Virtue signaling from a distance does not protect lives. Facts and accountability matter.
Hamas captivity survivors Romi Gonen and Emily Damari shared a haunting and powerful moment: singing in Arabic the Moshe Peretz song that carried them through the darkest days of their captivity.
They explained that they were forbidden from singing in Hebrew, a language demonized in Gaza. Because they are women, they were forbidden from singing at all. Even their voices were controlled.
This is the reality of life under the oppressive, extremist rule of Hamas where language, identity, and even a woman’s voice are policed.
Yet today, they sing freely. Their voices are no longer silenced, and their resilience is louder than the ideology that tried to erase them.
For years the reality that Hamas embeds itself inside civilian infrastructure in Gaza, using it as a base of operations to conduct terror activity against Israel, was a widely known although often publicly dismissed fact.
Now even Doctors Without Borders, in French Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), has acknowledged what its own staff reportedly witnessed inside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis: armed men roaming the compound, masked individuals, intimidation, arbitrary arrests of patients, and even suspected weapons movement.
In response, MSF paused “all non-critical medical operations” at the facility.
Hospitals are meant to be sanctuaries. When ‘armed groups’ operate inside them, they endanger patients, medical staff, and civilians, violating the most basic principles of humanitarian law.
This is about the weaponization of protected spaces to control Gazan civilians in practice, as well as ideological weaponization against the necessary measures Israel has taken to stop terror groups’ use of these facilities.
When terror organizations embed in medical facilities, they exploit the very protections designed to shield the innocent.
The truth matters, and civilians deserve protection no matter where they live.
Hamas, nor any of Gaza’s terror groups, should be allowed to hide behind hospitals while committing grievous crimes.
This is what coexistence looks like.
During Ramadan in Israel, a Muslim and a Jew came together over beloved foods from each other’s cultures.
The Muslim man shared his love for sufganiyot, the traditional Hanukkah donuts, explaining that tasting them sparked his curiosity about Jewish culture and traditions.
The Jewish man, speaking in Arabic, returned the gesture by sharing his love for qatayef, the beloved Ramadan dessert filled with cream or nuts. He expresses that Arab cuisine, in return, can become a bridge to deeper understanding.
This is the Israel that extremists try to erase, Muslims and Jews learning from one another, celebrating each other’s traditions, and building understanding hundreds of calories at a time.
🎥: that_semite
Iranian and Venezuelan activists Masih Alinejad and Leopoldo López know the evils of repressive regimes from the inside, and are speaking up at a time of rising tensions.
Both warn that attacks against U.S. “interference” often end up strengthening the very dictators brutalizing their people. Iranians and Venezuelans have tried everything: mass protests, negotiations, sanctions, and years of diplomatic pressure, and none of it delivered their freedom.
Their message is that when people attempt to undermine U.S. efforts that actually shift the balance against dictators, it hands regimes exactly what they want: time, legitimacy, and continued control.
Standing with people oppressed by ideologically repressive regimes means listening to those who’ve paid the price for resisting dictatorship. Silence, and participating in false moral equivalence, only prolong the regime’s control over them.
A Korean content creator living in Israel shares her experience in her native language.
She shared that she felt safe walking the streets at night, exploring Jerusalem’s market, and eating iconic Middle Eastern street foods.
From late-night strolls in Tel Aviv to the flavors of hummus and falafel, Israel’s streets are full of life and light.
🎥: k__yjj
Forty days after tens of thousands of loved ones were killed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, families across the country chose courage over fear.
In Iranian tradition, the 40th day of mourning is sacred. But this time, remembrance became something more, an act of resistance.
For Israelis, this response is painfully familiar. After October 7th, “We will dance again” wasn’t just a feel-good slogan, but a refusal to let terror define the future.
Now, in different languages but under the same threat of massacre, both peoples are sending the same message: grief will not be controlled by those who rule through fear.
When regimes try to silence memory, it’s the memory itself that becomes their power.
We will stand with the Iranian people until freedom.
On the first Friday of Ramadan, tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers are making their way to Jerusalem’s Old City, and Israeli authorities are working to ensure they can do so safely and freely.
In a region where religious persecution is the horrific norm, Israel continues to protect access to holy sites for Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike.
Security and religious freedom are not contradictions. In Israel, they are upheld side by side.
This is what democracy in the Middle East looks like.
