“Let diplomacy silence the guns!” Pope Leo XIV told the crowd in St. Peter’s Square after he recited the Angelus prayer on Sunday. Hours earlier, the Israel-Iran war escalated after the United States ...

It’s a cheap and dangerous slur that betrays both historical ignorance and moral confusion. Supporting Israel has never been about putting another country before our own. It’s about standing shoulder ...

If you love America and want it to flourish — and most Americans do — it is necessary to understand that America’s most important ally is Israel. Period. Full stop. In early October, Pew Research ...

When the Speaker of the House of Representatives went to the Western Wall in Jerusalem on August 3rd, placing a handwritten note to God in its cracks, he declared: “Our prayer is that America will ...

The longtime pro-Israel bipartisan consensus in American politics is fading—precisely at the moment Israel needs it most. It has become a worn trope among anti-Semitic political commentators that the ...

President Donald Trump announced on June 19 that he will decide in the next two weeks whether the United States will join Israel’s military campaign in Iran. If he decides in the affirmative, the ...

Israel’s advocates fear that its conduct of the war has cost it the support of an entire generation of U.S. voters. By David M. Halbfinger Reporting from Jerusalem The war in Gaza may finally be ...

“Remember, Iran cannot have any nuclear weapons. Very simple. Don’t have to go too deep into it. They just can’t have nuclear weapons.” — President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters, June 17, 2025 ...

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“Their religion … openly supports the prosecution of ours,” one MAGA student told the vice president. Vice President JD Vance fielded skeptical questions about American support for Israel, including ...

Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who through more than a decade in public life expressed staunch support for Israel while at times being accused of antisemitism, is dead at 31. He was fatally ...

Sometimes, the most crucial test of a powerful country involves not its strength but its judgment. The United States faces just such a test now, as Israel wages a determined campaign against Iran and ...