Welcome back. The world continues to be absolutely crazy, and I'm back on the road again (this time in Colorado, having just returned to Florida from Texas last Thursday). In any event, here are some highlights from the past week.

My most recent column focused on last week's outrageous blood libel in Gaza, wherein The New York Times, CNN, and many other liberal/mainstream media outlets immediately parroted Hamas propaganda about an alleged Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza. That propaganda was discredited quickly—Israel Defense Forces surveillance footage, soon corroborated by U.S. intelligence, definitively showed the fatal rocket in question was misfired from the Gaza-based and Iran-backed terrorist outfit Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (It also didn't even hit the hospital—rather, it landed in a parking lot next to it.) But this tempest in a teapot underscores the formidable test that is soon to come for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As the days pass from Oct. 7, and the memory of Hamas's Nazi-style barbarism begins to fade, Netanyahu will be increasingly hard-pressed to follow through and do what must be done to eradicate Hamas once and for all. But no matter how much pressure President Joe Biden applies, for Israel this war against Hamas simply must be waged as "unconditional surrender or bust." There is no middle option here—no third way out.

For my most recent podcast episode, I was rejoined by Aryeh Lightstone, former senior advisor to the U.S. ambassador to Israel, special envoy for the Abraham Accords, and author of Let My People Know: The Incredible Story of Middle East Peace—and What Lies Ahead. Aryeh and I discussed what it was like to be in Israel on the day of the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom, what he has learned from his visits to the communities in the Israeli south that have felt the brunt of the massacre, what we can expect to see in the fighting ahead, the role of the U.S. in helping to deter a broader regional conflagration, what should happen in Gaza after Hamas is finally eradicated, and more. You can listen to that episode on Apple, Spotify or here.

In terms of other media hits and appearances since our last newsletter, I joined "Carl Higbie Frontline" on Newsmax to discuss rising global Jew-hatred in the aftermath of the Hamas pogrom on Oct. 7; joined "The Mark Reardon Show" on 97.1 FM Talk (St. Louis) to discuss the latest in the Israel-Hamas war; joined "Bo Snerdley's Rush Hour" on 77 WABC (New York City) to discuss the unprecedented Jew-hatred we have seen recently on American university campuses (also the subject of a Daily Mail piece I wrote last week); joined "Rita Panahi Overtime" on Sky News Australia to discuss rising Jew-hatred on American university campuses, President Biden's dereliction of duty on the U.S. southern border, and the latest on Biden family corruption; and joined my friend Buck Sexton on the eponymous "Buck Sexton Show" to discuss the latest in the Israel-Hamas war and the disgusting demonstrations of support for Hamas that we have recently seen from some on the far-Left.

Regarding public speaking appearances, I am now in Denver for Federalist Society speaking engagements today with both the Sturm College of Law (University of Denver) chapter—where I'm speaking on Big Tech—and the local Colorado Lawyers Chapter. I spoke yesterday at the University of Wyoming on fighting back against Big Tech. I was in Austin last week for two events at the University of Texas.

Our additional highlighted right-leaning Newsweek op-eds from the past week include selections from Eli Steinberg, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Larry Elder, Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor, Hadar Ahiad Hazony, and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.).

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