Hamas doesn’t want a ceasefire: The German newspaper "Bild" revealed today Hamas' military strategy and its deception tactics based on a document discovered from Hamas' military intelligence, found on a computer in Gaza, signed by Yahya Sinwar. This document, approved… pic.twitter.com/ZLBJhA0894 — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 6, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Full text: Hamas doesn’t want a…

Kim Jong-un. as we all know, likes to wear baggy pants… It accommodates, and perhaps helps to camouflage, his substantial girth. It is not, though, a style to be emulated. As North Korean authorities intensify a crackdown on youth fashion, they’ve begun targeting young people who imitate Kim Jong Un’s clothing and hairstyle, particularly those…

Another look at the terrible dilemma that Israel faces – to bring back the hostages, or to defeat Hamas. Bret Stephens in the NYT (via Jerry Coyne): Since the days of Abraham — who, according to Genesis, rescued his nephew Lot after he’d been seized by an invading army — Jewish tradition has placed supreme…

June 17, 1938. Washington, D.C. "No more hot air in Congress. Two million cubic feet of clean, cool air is delivered to members of Congress each minute by a $3,500,000 air conditioning plant, part of which is shown above. The plant supplies the entire Capitol and the Senate and the new and old House Office…

At Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday, Keir Starmer claimed that the decision to suspend 30 of the UK’s 350 arms export licences to Israel was a “legal decision not a policy decision”. Not so, says Kemi Badenoch: The former business and trade secretary said in a lengthy post on X/Twitter: “It is not true that the…

Floods have hit North Korea, and it's all hands to the pumps. From the Daily NK: On Aug. 6, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a ceremony for the Mount Paektu Heroic Youth Shock Troops, who were assigned to clean up flooded areas, in the square in front of the April 25 House of Culture…

WATCH: Rescued Israeli hostage Qaid Farhan, speaks about being a Muslim Arab Israeli in Hamas captivity. Hamas asked him to give them Jews to kill, and he refused. He chose humanity over his own safety. pic.twitter.com/sx26Kk28np — Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 4, 2024 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js

The Network of Sikh Organisations, concerned about the impact of proposed legislation against "Islamophobia", have written to Angela Rayner: We want to raise our grave concerns about the APPG [All Party Parliamentary Group] ‘Islamophobia’ definition which has already been adopted by the Labour party and incorporated into its governing body’s code of conduct. Adoption of…

At least there are some jobs for women under the Taliban: spying on other women: The Taliban is using female workers to spy on other women to enforce harsh new laws. Since returning to power in 2021, the Afghan regime has banned women from working outside the home or attending school and university. But some…

The demonstrators in Tel Aviv want the hostages released: Netanyahu wants to defeat Hamas. These aims are, it's becoming increasingly clear, incompatible. Jonathan Spyer in the Spectator on Netanyahu's unenviable dilemma on Gaza: The murder of six Israeli hostages by Hamas in Gaza earlier this week led to an outpouring of grief and fury in…