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Iran issues fatwa against Trump and Netanyahu

The order labels the pair as ‘enemies of God’ for threatening the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

A senior Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa against US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (Image: Getty)

Smoke rises after an Israeli attack on IRGC's Sarallah Headquarters in north of Tehran on June 23, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Daniel Roth

After the strikes: The six steps to fully dismantle Iran’s nuclear programme

3 min read

President Trump has called on Israeli prosecutors to drop their 'witch hunt' trial of Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges (Image: Getty)

US Politics

Trump calls for end of Netanyahu’s ‘witch hunt’ corruption trial

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on April 07, 2025. (Image: Getty)

By Arsen Ostrovsky

Netanyahu and Trump showed the kind of resolve Churchill himself would have saluted

3 min read

IN FLIGHT, UNITED STATES: A B-2 Stealth Bomber flies towards a refuel stop with an KC10 refueling jet as part of Global Power Launch training mission out of Whiteman Air Force Base, Home of the 509th Bomb Wing and all US B-2 Stealth Bombers 30 October, 2002 some where over Missouri. The US will deploy B2 Stealth bombers closer to the Gulf region to increase the US firepower there amid mounting pressure on Iraq. AFP PHOTO / TIM SLOAN (Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN/AFP via Getty Images)

By Yaakov Katz

Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been set back by years

4 min read

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in the Oval Office on April 7, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Emanuele Ottolenghi

Trump and Netanyahu played Iran by engaging in a good-cop, bad-cop strategy

3 min read

Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in court to testify in his corruption trial (Image: Flash90)

By Yaakov Katz

The missing front: How Netanyahu is bungling the war for legitimacy

3 min read

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By Daniel Finkelstein

When Israel’s government uses extreme rhetoric, it tests the faith of its backers

Support for the Jewish state was once instinctive. But when its leaders flirt with extremism, even pragmatic Zionists must speak out

2 min read

June 11, 2025 09:19

Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir who was sanctioned by the UK government this week (Photo:Getty Images)

Seized documents ‘show Qatar funded Hamas’ and ‘disrupted Gaza peace deal’

The files, seized from the terror group in Gaza, reportedly contradict the Israeli government’s claims that the Gulf emirate limited its role to humanitarian assistance

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

June 9, 2025 14:25

Documents seized in Gaza reportedly reveal that Qatar was a 'main artery' of Hamas funding in the run-up to October 7 (Pictured: Late emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (centre-right) with Hamas leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh (centre-left), on a visit to Gaza in 2012; Image: Getty)

Israeli government ‘diverted NIS 700 million’ to fund Gaza aid

Netanyahu’s office has previously denied Israel is funding The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

By JC Reporter

1 min read

June 5, 2025 11:56

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation began distributing aid in the strip at the end of May (Image: Getty)

By Yossi Yehoshua

Israel shifts its military strategy – and Hamas is losing its grip

Direct aid, held ground, and relentless pressure are shaking the terrorists’ hold on Gaza. But too much success may also endanger the fate of the hostages

3 min read

June 4, 2025 12:00

People carry boxes of relief supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group that has bypassed the longstanding UN-led system in the territory (Image: Getty)

Trump warns Israel off Iran strike amid possible progress in nuclear talks

Reports suggest that Tehran may be willing to suspend its uranium enrichment in return for a pair of significant concessions from Washington

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

May 29, 2025 11:02

Donald Trump has confirmed he warned Israel against striking Iranian nuclear sites as negotiations with Tehran continue (Image: Getty)

Israel approves 22 new West Bank settlements in ‘secret vote’

Some of the towns – which reportedly won the approval of the prime minister – will be newly built, while others will be outposts that were previously considered illegal under Israeli law

By JC Reporter

1 min read

May 28, 2025 10:17