The View into Syria

After stops at Tel Dan and Caesarea Philippi, we made our way to Bental, an old IDF outpost overlooking the Syrian border. The well-fortified bunker served as a frontline observation post during the 1967 6-Day War, and more recently featured a coffee shop said to have had the best coffee in Israel. That coffee shop …

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A Hostage Release is Not a Peace Agreement and Leopards Don’t Change Their Spots!

As I write this, we are minutes from the scheduled release of Israeli hostages from Gaza. My prayer is that it will happen before this post actually drops. Regardless, the facts remain... Soon after President Trump broke news on October 8, 2025, regarding Israel and Hamas' agreement to phase 1 of the peace deal, news …

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Is There Famine in Gaza?

By now, I hope you know the answer to that question is a resounding, "NO!" Listen to this IDF spokesperson talk about the food supply being trucked into Gaza, and why it doesn't reach the "starving" people of Gaza. https://youtu.be/Ubb1swG46MU Let's not deny the fact that there may well be starving people in Gaza. We …

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Does the IDF Indiscriminately Kill Journalists in Gaza?

Recently, Anas al-Sharif was killed in a military operation in Gaza. Al-Sharif was supposedly a journalist for Al Jazeera, a well-known Arab media outlet funded by the Qatari government. This sparked outrage around the world because Israel's Defense Forces (IDF) had killed the journalist and other "innocent civilians." In fact, an Arab-Israeli Knesset member, Ayman …

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