The contrast between the pro-Hamas mob outside the Capitol building and the prime minister’s address illustrated the stakes involved in the debate about Israel.

 What Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to a joint meeting of Congress was important. Both Americans and Israelis need to understand that the war in the Gaza Strip is just one front in a conflict with Iran that is, as he rightly said, a battle “between civilization and barbarism.”

In December 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Washington, DC. His country had been at war for nearly ten months, and he came to speak to a joint session of Congress about the need for American assistance to help the war effort. Kamala Harris sat behind Zelenskyy and waved a Ukrainian flag in support of this effort.

The media-manufactured enthusiasm around Kamala Harris is desperately trying to obfuscate the fact that her positions on every issue is to the left of Joe Biden, who based his administration on the policy prescriptions of Bernie Sanders. That is the most evident, and most apparent, with her views on the US-Israel relationship, and what she thinks the future of that relationship should be.

Shots were fired at former President Donald Trump, and only through a miracle did he survive them. By now, everyone must have seen the footage of the assassination attempt, and the quick head tilt that was the difference between having a nominating convention this week or a Civil War. It was a shocking moment in American history, but for anyone who has paid attention in the last decade, it is not surprising.

On the first day of the Republican National Convention, shortly after officially receiving the Republican nomination for President of the United States, former President Donald Trump chose junior Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio to be his running mate. It’s a pick that shows both the confidence of the Trump campaign and the potential longevity of the MAGA movement.