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The World Condemns Israel Because It Wants to Ignore the Evil of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Other Terror Groups
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer reacts as he meets with Britain’s Defense Secretary John Healey (unseen) and Member of the House of Lords George Robertson (unseen) at 10 Downing Street, in London, on July 16, 2024. Photo: Benjamin Cremel/Pool via REUTERS
It’s been almost one full year since October 7, 2023 — one of the worst terrorist attacks in modern history, and the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. And the barbaric crime was streamed live in high-definition video on social media platforms by the Hamas perpetrators.
And yet somehow, 11 months later, much of the world seems incapable of telling the difference between a terror group that slaughters children and a sovereign state that tries to save them — a terror group whose own charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish State.
The world prefers to focus their attention on the actions of Israel — and applying pressure on the Jewish State — while seemingly ignoring the actions of Hamas, a terror army that deliberately uses hospitals and schools as bases, terror tunnels to hide hostages, and children as human shields.
Just days after Hamas executed six Israeli hostages who had been starved and tortured for almost a year, the United Kingdom decided to curb arms sales to Israel, suspending 30 of the 350 existing arms licenses because of “a clear risk that they might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law.”
The UK saw fit to punish Israel — even though experts have said Israel is doing more to protect civilians than any military in modern history — and even as the bodies of these executed hostages were being laid to rest. One of these hostages, Eden Yerushalmi, weighed less than 80 pounds.
And shamefully the Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong “welcomed” the British move, as a means to “pressure” Israel to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians.
Notably, while she has on previous occasions, this time she didn’t speak about curbing Hamas — the terror group that launched this war in the first place and deliberately made it their strategy to get Gazan civilians killed to increase world sympathy.
On September 10, Canada announced a similar suspension of license exports to Israel. This comes after it had already decided to not issue any new permits for military exports to Israel since January 2024.
Unfortunately, this so-called concern for civilians ignores the more than 60,000 Israelis who have been forced from their homes in the north, where Hezbollah has launched about 8,000 rockets across the international border on an almost daily basis since it joined in the war on October 8.
Hezbollah’s crimes have also been largely ignored, with no condemnations, but rather weak calls for “de-escalation.”
All those who continually charge Israel with violating “international law” seem to forget that UN Security Council Resolution 1701 is also being completely ignored. That’s the resolution that ended the Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006, and called for Hezbollah to withdraw to north of the Litani River and for the Lebanese armed forces and UNIFIL to maintain security in southern Lebanon. For 18 years, this resolution has been flagrantly violated, but few seem to care about the violation of this “international law.”
And just this past weekend, the Houthi terror group fired a ballistic missile from Yemen at Israel that was thankfully intercepted, but could have had devastating effects had it been successful. Once again the world was silent.
Israel is a very small country surrounded by terrorist groups and Iran’s ring of proxies trying desperately to destroy the Jewish State, yet rather than stand with Israel against these evil entities, there are elements in the world who would seemingly prefer the easy option of punishing Israel instead because they cannot seem to deal with the evil of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
Justin Amler is a policy analyst at the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC).
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Israel Says Missile Launched by Yemen’s Houthis ‘Most Likely’ Intercepted
Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi addresses followers via a video link at the al-Shaab Mosque, formerly al-Saleh Mosque, in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
The Israeli army said on Saturday that a missile fired from Yemen towards Israeli territory had been “most likely successfully intercepted,” while Yemen’s Houthi forces claimed responsibility for the launch.
Israel has threatened Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement – which has been attacking Israel in what it says is solidarity with Gaza – with a naval and air blockade if its attacks on Israel persist.
The Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group was responsible for Saturday’s attack, adding that it fired a missile towards the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.
Since the start of Israel’s war in Gaza in October 2023, the Houthis, who control most of Yemen, have been firing at Israel and at shipping in the Red Sea, disrupting global trade.
Most of the dozens of missiles and drones they have launched have been intercepted or fallen short. Israel has carried out a series of retaliatory strikes.
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Iran Holds Funeral for Commanders and Scientists Killed in War with Israel
People attend the funeral procession of Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists and others killed in Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 28, 2025. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS
Large crowds of mourners dressed in black lined streets in Iran’s capital Tehran as the country held a funeral on Saturday for top military commanders, nuclear scientists and some of the civilians killed during this month’s aerial war with Israel.
At least 16 scientists and 10 senior commanders were among those mourned at the funeral, according to state media, including armed forces chief Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Revolutionary Guards commander General Hossein Salami, and Guards Aerospace Force chief General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
Their coffins were driven into Tehran’s Azadi Square adorned with their photos and national flags, as crowds waved flags and some reached out to touch the caskets and throw rose petals onto them. State-run Press TV showed an image of ballistic missiles on display.
Mass prayers were later held in the square.
State TV said the funeral, dubbed the “procession of the Martyrs of Power,” was held for a total of 60 people killed in the war, including four women and four children.
In attendance were President Masoud Pezeshkian and other senior figures including Ali Shamkhani, who was seriously wounded during the conflict and is an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as Khamenei’s son Mojtaba.
“Today, Iranians, through heroic resistance against two regimes armed with nuclear weapons, protected their honor and dignity, and look to the future prouder, more dignified, and more resolute than ever,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, who also attended the funeral, said in a Telegram post.
There was no immediate statement from Khamenei, who has not appeared publicly since the conflict began. In past funerals, he led prayers over the coffins of senior commanders ahead of public ceremonies broadcast on state television.
Israel launched the air war on June 13, attacking Iranian nuclear facilities and killing top military commanders as well as civilians in the worst blow to the Islamic Republic since the 1980s war with Iraq.
Iran retaliated with barrages of missiles on Israeli military sites, infrastructure and cities. The United States entered the war on June 22 with strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
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Israel, the only Middle Eastern country widely believed to have nuclear weapons, said it aimed to prevent Tehran from developing its own nuclear weapons.
Iran denies having a nuclear weapons program. The U.N. nuclear watchdog has said it has “no credible indication” of an active, coordinated weapons program in Iran.
Bagheri, Salami and Hajizadeh were killed on June 13, the first day of the war. Bagheri was being buried at the Behesht Zahra cemetery outside Tehran mid-afternoon on Saturday. Salami and Hajizadeh were due to be buried on Sunday.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he would consider bombing Iran again, while Khamenei, who has appeared in two pre-recorded video messages since the start of the war, has said Iran would respond to any future US attack by striking US military bases in the Middle East.
A senior Israeli military official said on Friday that Israel had delivered a “major blow” to Iran’s nuclear project. On Saturday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement that Israel and the US “failed to achieve their stated objectives” in the war.
According to Iranian health ministry figures, 610 people were killed on the Iranian side in the war before a ceasefire went into effect on Tuesday. More than 4,700 were injured.
Activist news agency HRANA put the number of killed at 974, including 387 civilians.
Israel’s health ministry said 28 were killed in Israel and 3,238 injured.
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Pro-Palestinian Rapper Leads ‘Death to the IDF’ Chant at English Music festival
Revellers dance as Avril Lavigne performs on the Other Stage during the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, in Pilton, Somerset, Britain, June 30, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Dylan Martinez
i24 News – Chants of “death to the IDF” were heard during the English Glastonbury music festival on Saturday ahead of the appearance of the pro-Palestinian Irish rappers Kneecap.
One half of punk duo based Bob Vylan (who both use aliases to protect their privacy) shouted out during a section of their show “Death to the IDF” – the Israeli military. Videos posted on X (formerly Twitter) show the crowd responding to and repeating the cheer.
This comes after officials had petitioned the music festival to drop the band. The rap duo also expressed support for the following act, Kneecap, who the BCC refused to show live after one of its members, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh – better known by stage name Mo Chara – was charged with a terror offense.
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