Author: Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner
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Israel’s Shin Bet chief warns of Jewish terrorism backed by Cabinet minister
A rising generation of “Jewish terror leaders” have concluded they can attack Palestinians in the West Bank with the implicit support of Israel’s police, according to the Jewish state’s internal security chief. “The Jewish terror leaders want to make the system lose control,” Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar wrote in a letter to Israeli Prime…
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China demands ‘drastic and substantive cuts’ to US nuclear arsenal
China called for “drastic and substantive cuts to [the United States] nuclear arsenal” in a dismissive response to Washington’s concern that “multiple nuclear-armed adversaries” could coordinate a joint nuclear weapons threat to the United States. “It is the U.S. who is the primary source of nuclear threats and strategic risks in the world,” Chinese Foreign…
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Ukraine’s drone attacks drive home ‘new normal’ of war in Russia
Ukraine launched a flurry of drone attacks around Russia, according to Russian authorities, including a drone barrage near Moscow that disrupted flights at some airports near the capital. “This is one of the largest attempts to attack Moscow using drones ever,” Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin wrote Wednesday on social media. “The layered defense of Moscow…
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‘Artillery hunger’ feeds Ukraine fear that Biden won’t back victory
ODESA, Ukraine — New shipments of U.S. ammunition have begun to flow into Ukraine after a political dispute led to months of painful shortages, but Ukrainian forces still feel a “hunger” for ammunition and have misgivings about the quality of American support. “Part of it has arrived, but the thing is that the U.S. does…
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Ukraine debates whether to conscript clergy as Russia war rages
KYIV — Just weeks after manpower shortages forced Ukraine’s leaders to allow prison convicts to join the military, officials face a fraught political debate about whether to mobilize clergy, as well. “There [are] discussions over how not to mobilize these people — how to provide them with an exemption from conscription,” Viktor Yelensky, who leads…
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War buskers: Ukraine musicians raise money to send drone to front line for brother
LVIV, UKRAINE — For the past couple of months, weekend visitors to a massive monument to Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian poet and nationalist whom Russian Czar Nicholas I imprisoned and exiled for his political views, have watched their children play while taking in the garage rock tones of The White Stripes. “Everyone tries to do…
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NATO allies plan ‘drone wall’ as Russia tests Baltic borders
A group of NATO allies has agreed to establish a “drone wall” to monitor the trans-Atlantic alliance’s borders with Russia amid a series of measures from Moscow that point to increasing “hybrid” pressure in the Baltic States region. “This is a completely new thing — a drone wall stretching from Norway to Poland,” Lithuanian Interior…
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Poland accuses Russia of ‘kinetic action’ inside NATO
Russia’s intelligence agencies are coordinating sabotage operations and other violent acts inside NATO territory, according to Polish officials. “We are facing a foreign state that is conducting hostile and — in military parlance — kinetic action on Polish territory,” Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak told Bloomberg this week.“There has never been anything like this before.” That…
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US brushes aside Netanyahu distaste for Palestinian Authority’s role in post-war Gaza
The Biden administration expects the Palestinian Authority to rule the Gaza Strip following the destruction of Hamas despite Israel’s skepticism about that prospect. “We do believe that the Palestinian Authority is the representative of the Palestinian people,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said Wednesday. “And a revitalized, reformed, revamped Palestinian Authority is the proper path…
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Ukraine forced to ‘save and to ration’ ammunition amid US aid impasse
Ukrainian forces find themselves outgunned by Russia as their commanders face the prospect of a prolonged lapse in U.S. military support, according to Ukrainian officials and Western observers. “We’re talking about [Ukrainians firing] hundreds of shells per day versus thousands of shells used by Russians per day,” senior Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Merezhko, who chairs the…