Gatestone Teaching

  • It may not be generally known that, immediately after WWII, as many as 48,000 volunteers, both Jews and non-Jews, from 59 nations arrived in Israel to fight for its independence. About 90% of Israel's fledging Air Force pilots were new arrivals – the
  • US President Donald Trump wasn't drafted and did none of the things that budding politically correct gurus counseled. Instead, he tried to make money, not always successfully, but he learned to distinguish the tangible from the intangible. By instinct he
  • The European Union is reportedly preparing to sit down with Iran to negotiate on its nuclear program — again. On the surface, this international charm offensive may appear to be a constructive effort toward dialogue, but a dryer analysis suggests that
  • British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, apparently attempting to impersonate a Soviet dictator, appears to be forcing mandatory digital ID on the population, despite huge opposition to the issue. "You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do
  • In the eyes of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, the plan is nothing but another temporary ceasefire, not different than previous ones reached between Israel and Hamas over the past two decades. Those who think that Hamas, by agreeing to Trump's
  • Perhaps more significant to US strategic interests [than Venezuela's trafficking illegal drugs] is Maduro's cooperation with an anti-American alliance of autocracies, including Russia, Cuba, China and Iran. Iran's regime, both before and after a number
  • "What is the mandate of security forces inside of Gaza? And we hope that it is peacekeeping, because if it's peace enforcing, nobody will want to touch that…. [R]unning around Gaza on patrol with weapons, that's not a situation that any country would
  • Perhaps not since President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Advisory Committee on Uranium in October 1939, whose mission would eventually lead to the creation of the atomic bomb, have the actions of a president regarding energy been so crucial to
  • The meeting underscores Qatar's apparent eagerness to play a central role in post-war Gaza. As a long-time supporter and funder of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, the Qatari regime's main goal seems to be ensuring that Hamas remains in power in the
  • Iran's leaders appear to see nuclear weapons not simply as a strategic tool, but as an existential necessity — a shield for the regime's survival and a sword to advance its revolutionary ideology. Iran's leadership sees that one nuclear-armed missile