I'm chuffed to learn my book "The Wit of Whitlam" is @MUPublishing's 14th bestseller since 2012. https://t.co/5jkf0D5vk9

🚨עוד 14 הרוגים ביממה האחרונה בעזה. שלושה ילדים מתוכם קור והיפותרמיה. שניים מהם באוהלים. הרוגים נוספים מקריסת ביניינים מופצצים שלא עמדו בסערה.

The sad part of German Jewry is that they were the most assimilated Jews of history; their temples had pews, they even suggested going on Sunday, they insisted they were 'Germans of the Mosaic faith', they married German women, they started reform Judaism, all for naught.

Mamdani, accompanied by his senior advisor Andrew Epstein, was acknowledged by Satmar leaders and shook hands with the Rebbe, Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum shlita. Via JDN

Palestinian Christians in the Christian village of Taybeh lit candles for peace in St. George Church—the same church that Israeli settlers attacked and set on fire. Father Bashar Fawadleh: “From the same place where they burned the fire, we light the candle of peace.”

Celebrations in Damascus, Homs and Lattakia tonight by Syrians after the House of Representatives abrogated the Caesar Act, which was placed on the Assad regime, and hindered Syria's post-war reconstruction.

Great opinion piece on @Barnaby_Joyce written by @ktxby, my old colleague and mate from @2nmradio.

This clip will melt any Middle East observer’s last functioning brain cell.

A sign of the times. The kids in the back of the Syrian police car managed to convince the cops to give them a test drive in the new vehicles. Under the Assad regime, ending up in a police/secret police car was a Syrians' worst nightmare.

The Syrian kid who went viral 14 years ago screaming “Bashar al-Assad killed us—what did we ever do to him?” is now grown. He spoke again at liberation anniversary in Damascus yesterday: “Those were tears of fear. Today, they are tears of joy.”

A message to Syrians around the globe, the time is now or never, your country needs you 🇸🇾

So far today, #Israel fighter jets have spent time circling over & flying through the following #Syria provinces: - #Quneitra - #Daraa - #Damascus countryside - #Homs - #Hama

🚨BREAKING -- Tony Blair has been dropped from Donald Trump's proposed "board of peace" in Gaza, according to a new report in the Financial Times. This comes after "objections from several Arab and Muslim states".

Celebrations in Gaza as both Team Palestine and Team Syria both qualify for the quarter finals of the FIFA Arab Cup. Congratulations 👏

Around a million Syrians have returned since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. And every day at Damascus airport, families separated by years of war and dictatorship, are finally being reunited.

If robodebt dropped bombs instead of debt recovery notices, this is what it would look like:

Periodic reminder that the biggest shift in attitudes toward Israel and Palestine has been among *older* Democrats. Not lefty college kids on TikTok.

Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers

Brothers, 8 and 11, killed by IDF collecting firewood. IDF calls them "suspicious" and "suspects" and "immediate threat". https://t.co/eUAbTwVjuJ via @timesofisrael

Abu Shabab was just a front guy; but the proxy gang’s de facto leader & now apparent successor is Ghassan Duhaini; who was a commander in Jaysh al-Islam (IS’s faction in Gaza, responsible for kidnapping 3 journalists from Fox & BBC). He’s better trained (having once served in

Palestinians in Lebanon celebrated the killing of Yasser Abu Shabab, head of an Israeli-backed militia in the southern Gaza Strip.