Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 28, 2024 After months of hesitation, political infighting and rancorous debate, the U.S. Congress passed a massive Ukraine funding bill with a bi-partisan majority. The deal was done and a dangerously divided Republican majority smiled nervously. The Democrats and the Biden Administration cheered, many holding little blue […]
FPI / April 17, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On April 13, Iran shattered precedent by launching its first major direct attack against Israel from Iranian territory that Israeli sources said consisted of strikes by over 120 ballistic missiles, 170 drones and 30 cruise missiles. Earlier, Iran launched a new and barbaric chapter in its […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 15, 2024 Of Iran’s more than 300 drones and missiles launched in Saturday’s attack on Israel, 99 percent were intercepted by Israeli and U.S. forces. They were able to crush Iran’s attack in large part “because Arab countries quietly passed along intelligence about Teheran’s attack plans, opened their airspace to warplanes, […]
Special to WorldTribune, April 15, 2024 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford The United States should demand a Gaza ceasefire — from Hamas. Instead, the Biden administration has demanded and succeeded in forcing Israel to withdraw troops from southern Gaza by threatening to cut off military aid. President Biden, after the Hamas Oct. 7 invasion, said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2024 Iran on Saturday carried out its first direct attack on Israel, launching more than 300 drones and missiles in retaliation for Israel’s alleged assassination of several top Iranian military leaders. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that 99 percent of Iran’s drones and cruise missiles were downed en route. Several […]
FPI / April 10, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct When Israel went into Gaza following the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “found Chinese military equipment in Hamas warehouses, including large numbers of assault rifles (QBZ assault rifles) and grenade launchers (QLZ87 automatic grenade launchers), telescopic sights for rifles and cartridges for M16s, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 9, 2024 According to a Pew Research poll published on April 2, sympathies for Hamas and Gaza are more common than sympathies for Israel among young voters, especially young Democrats. These voters are most likely to be getting their news about the Israel-Hamas war from legacy media or social media such […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 2024 Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, said in an interview on the Dr. Phil Primetime show that, after Oct. 7, there is no difference between Hamas and the Palestinian people. “There’s lots of hatred in that culture against the Jewish people. It’s not a […]
FPI / April 3, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct While officials in the Biden Administration call for calm amid heightened violence between Israel and the Hizbullah terror organization, an Iranian opposition leader said the current situation presents as good a time as any for the U.S. to attack Hizbullah’s provider Iran. Against UN and U.S. pressure to appease […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2024 Team Biden quickly scrambled to inform Iran that it had “no involvement” in an Israeli air strike in Syria on Monday that resulted in the deaths of several top Iranian military personnel, a report said. Two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) generals and five officers were killed as Israel […]