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GAZA BORDER, Israel -- The border separating Gaza, to the left, with Israel seems quiet on Aug. 12, 2025. But Israeli soldiers maintain a heavy presence, on guard for any sign of another Hamas terror attack. The Israeli people, still reeling from the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, have yet to completely return to their homes along the border. (Cheryl Chumley/The Washington Times)

Israel vs. Hamas vs. Palestinians: When optimism proves deadly

- The Washington Times

In answer to a question from The Washington Times, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said not all Muslims have Hamas-like terrorist tendencies and that cultivating the more moderate voices among the Islamic faithful is a sure step toward bringing peace. He has a point. Then again, maybe not.

Shiite Muslims burn representations of U.S. and Israeli flags during a rally to condemn Israeli strikes on Iran, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Bold and Blunt: The global rise of sharia law

- The Washington Times

Sharia law is rising around the world, at the same time the Islam faith is exploding around the world. And since sharia is incompatible with the Constitution, the question is: how can America keep the radical Islamic belief system at bay?

Families of hostages protest, demanding the release from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, at the plaza known as the hostages square in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hamas has no intention of peace. Let's stop pretending

- The Washington Times

A senior Hamas member, Ghazi Hamed, said on Al-Jazeera that "weapons constitute the Palestinian cause" and "no Palestinian is saying now that the resistance must end." And by "Palestinian cause," of course, it's meant "eradicate Israel, kill all Jews."

Then-special counsel Jack Smith speaks about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at a Department of Justice office in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Jack Smith has a timing problem

- The Washington Times

The Office of the Special Counsel, following a request from Sen. Tom Cotton, is investigating former special counsel Jack Smith for violating the Hatch Act and abusing his political appointment to wrongfully target Donald Trump for supposed crimes committed in 2020. Smith should be worried.

A handcuffed Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member waits for the start of a court trial at the Isidro Menendez Judicial Center in San Salvador, El Salvador, Oct. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

Another day, another Democrat defends an MS-13 illegal

- The Washington Times

A Democrat state representative for Rhode Island named Enrique Sanchez slammed on social media federal agents as "Nazi Gestapo ICE thugs" after they conducted a sweep in Providence of illegals. Only Democrats would dare to defend illegals so boldly.

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Obama-era radicals about to lose their environmental religion

- The Washington Times

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has announced a pathway to put an end to a Barack Obama-era environmental provision called the "endangerment finding," a provision that handed radical leftists a tool of massive control. This is a big win for the American people.

Demonstrators walk in an encampment on the UCLA campus after clashes between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

UCLA, where all the antisemites go

- The Washington Times

The University of California, Los Angeles, just agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit over a "Jew Exclusion Zone" established during the school's recent heydays of antisemitic protests. Bravo, UCLA. Who knew you couldn't set up no-go zones for Jews -- right? (Insert sarcastic tone here.)

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James walk in the NYC Pride March, Sunday, June 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Socialist Zohran Mamdani gets a fat-cat capitalist wedding

- The Washington Times

The socialist-slash-communist Zohran Mamdani just took a timeout from his Big Apple mayoral campaign to fly to his wealthy parents' elitist property in Uganda to marry his fiancee in a three-day ceremony that came complete with masked security guards and cellphone jamming system.

Smoke rises as police clash with protesters during a Black Lives Matter protest near the Seattle Police East Precinct headquarters, July 25, 2020, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Democrats fuel Whites-only communities

- The Washington Times

For years, Democrats have fostered racism, lawlessness and disorder and angry, ugly protests and socialism, Marxism, collectivism, all aimed at crippling America's melting pot.

Then-President Barack Obama speaks about Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress during a meeting with Defense Secretary Ash Carter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Obama won't be going to jail

- The Washington Times

Barack Obama, the ex-president who promised utter transparency but who is now being accused of treason, may have been -- as one former federal prosecutor put it -- "complicit up to his neck" in advancing the fake Russia collusion narrative against Donald Trump, but he won't go to jail.

President Barack Obama pays tribute to the nation's war dead during the Memorial Day ceremony at the amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery, May 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Democrats pay the price of the whirlwinds they released

- The Washington Times

President Trump has called out former President Barack Obama for "treason" for "trying to lead a coup" during the 2016 and 2020 election cycles -- accusations the former White House chief, through a spokesman, denied. It's refreshing to see Democrats face political fire for what they lit.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre holds a news conference outside a Manhattan court following the jailhouse death of Jeffrey Epstein, Aug. 27, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

It's not about Jeffrey Epstein. It's about the Epstein victims

- The Washington Times

There's a whole lot of talk going 'round these days about the need to move on and let go and get over the Jeffrey Epstein matter -- that it's old news, conspiracy talk. But the Jeffrey Epstein matter is not about Jeffrey Epstein. It never was. Not really. It's about the victims.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks at an event where a street was named in her honor, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Cutler Bay. Fla. The street is located in South Dade County, where Justice Jackson grew up. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

When judges are so smart they're stupid

- The Washington Times

Leftist judges: If they're not busily activating on behalf of leftist causes, they're just as busily putting their minds to work to bang out the next batch of tortured logic to support their leftist causes.

President Joe Biden speaks to the media in North Charleston, S.C., Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Democrats can't dodge their autopen problem

- The Washington Times

Oh me, oh my. What a tangled web is weaved when we lie. Turns out, then-White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients actually approved the use of the autopen. His words. He wrote in an email, "I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons."

Then-President Barack Obama speaks about Iran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress during a meeting with Defense Secretary Ash Carter in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Barack Obama rallies Democrats to destroy, err, 'do something'

- The Washington Times

The former president Barack Obama, at a private fundraiser in New Jersey, said Democrats ought to do "less navel-gazing," "less whining," less rolling into "fetal positions" and more "courage," more fight, fight, fight. This, from the guy who sped up the Democrat Party's decline into Marxism.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during an open meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Jerome Powell has some $2.5 billion 'splainin' to do

- The Washington Times

Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, called out Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for excessive spending on building renovations -- specifically, that a planned and budgeted multimillion-dollar project exceeded costs by $700 million, for a total of $2.5 billion. It's so easy to spend other people's money.

Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, right, and Attorney General of New York Letitia James walk in the NYC Pride March, Sunday, June 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

Zohran Mamdani, just another 'Democrat' despising on America

- The Washington Times

Zohran Mamdani, whose family fled the tyranny of Idi Amin's Uganda for a better life in America, celebrated Independence Day with a statement that called this country "beautiful," but "unfinished." As Vice President J.D. Vance put it at a speech in California: "Who the hell does he think he is?"

Illegal immigration has become a flashpoint in the 2024 election. With the surge in illegal immigration, the escalating drug crisis, and rising violence, many Americans feel overwhelmed and uncertain about the future of our nation, but how can you discuss the crisis with biblical compassion and wisdom? (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

Democrats don't deserve another chance to lead

- The Washington Times

Democrats are opening their eyes to the problems their party pols created on the border and acknowledging they've shifted too far to the left and that when it comes to illegal immigration, they must rethink policy and redo plans and actually control crossings. They're not to be trusted.