BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What happened: A third group of hostages, comprising 14 Israelis and three Thai nationals were freed from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip yesterday evening. * The Israelis included nine children, two mothers,
There may have been more outright venal popes than the current one, but when it comes to sheer cretinous stupidity, Pope Francis is in a league of his own. At least John XII had the feeble excuse of being a teenager (which is to say, stupid, arrogant and hormonally impulsive)
Was Kurtz onto something? In the doom-laden climax of Heart of Darkness, the malaria-deranged Kurtz utters his famous dying words, The horror! The horror! Exterminate all the brutes! UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps recently pointed out an obvious fact that completely escapes the modern left antisemites bellowing for a ceasefire:
If you needed no other argument against lowering the voting age — in fact, if you want an argument for raising the voting age — you need only look at Melbourne yesterday. It was like a scene out of Triumph of the Will, with keffiyehs in place of brown shirts. Hundreds of
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. What’s happened: The temporary ceasefire came into effect at 0500 UK time this morning. * Fifteen minutes in, a single rocket was fired out of Gaza, which was intercepted by the Iron
As the Australian left spirals deeper into the dark night of its own, drawn-out Kristallnacht, a government that’s been playing with matches is finally starting to smell the smoke. It should come as no surprise to anyone that a movement which kicked off by celebrating the worst massacre of
Faith Quintero besacenter.org BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,235 November 21, 2023 Faith Quintero is the author of Loaded Blessings, a family saga that alternates between Inquisition-era Spain and modern-day Israel. It’s among the Federalist’s top books of 2019 and was a Montaigne Medal finalist for
As The BFD reported recently, it was revealed that several photographers for the mainstream media were suspiciously on the spot for Hamas’ October 7 atrocities. In fact, it is alleged that the photographers, on the payroll of major news organisations such as AP and CNN, were embedded with Hamas terrorist
We all have a responsibility to inform ourselves as far as practical and, especially if we are politicians, to verse ourselves in “Realpolitik”. * Realpolitik refers to a pragmatic approach to politics, focusing on practical and realistic considerations rather than on ideological or moral principles. Regarding being ideologically driven and ill-informed,
BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. Hostage deal: On Tuesday night the cabinet approved the deal to release 50 hostages from Gaza. * At the end of a long meeting in which ministers received a detailed security briefing, thirty-five
The pivotal issue in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict revolves around the profound significance of religion concerning the lands of Israel. Within this framework, three pertinent questions arise: 1. Does the Torah (or Tanakh) state that God granted the land of Israel to the Jews? 2. Does the Bible mention God
Newly elected Argentinian President Javier Milei, last month said: “I don’t go to Church, I go to Synagogue. I don’t follow a priest, I follow a Rabbi. I learn Torah. I’m known internationally as a friend of Israel. In addition to aligning with the US and Israel,
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Let’s not beat about the bush, here: ‘anti-Zionist’ is the most bullshit gambit since the old ‘I’m not racist, but…’ Just as you know the ‘but…’ is the opening for the most racist tripe imaginable, ‘anti-Zionist’ is just the mandatory rhetorical fig-leaf Jew-haters have had to deploy since
Taking over from Waleed Aly as the go-to poster-boy for Islamic terror apologism, Australia Palestine Advocacy Network president Nasser Mashni has been getting a pretty sweet gig from the taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda collective national broadcaster, the ABC. But, just who is the left-media’s latest Islamic poster boy, and what
