Gatestone Teaching

  • Ever since the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) conquered the Syrian capital Damascus with Turkey's help in December of 2024, HTS fighters and their affiliated militias — often offshoots of ISIS and al-Qaeda — have been massacring religious
  • "Animal-based foods, especially red meat, dairy, and farmed shrimp, are generally associated with the highest greenhouse gas emissions," according to the UN. What to eat instead? The WEF has for years aggressively been advocating insects to be approved
  • Palestinians who are saying that they are unaware of Hamas's October 7 atrocities against Israelis are either engaged in self-deception or influenced by Hamas's venomous propaganda machine, including the Qatar-owned Al-Jazeera TV network, which has long
  • The top 13 of the 50 nations on the World Watch List 2025 are characterized by the worst form of persecution: "extreme." They are: 1) North Korea, 2) Somalia, 3) Yemen, 4) Libya, 5) Sudan, 6) Eritrea, 7) Nigeria, 8) Pakistan, 9) Iran, 10) Afghanistan,
  • Ukraine has tried to compensate for a manpower shortage, which it shares with Russia, not by hiring North Korean or African mercenaries, but by developing a major industry manufacturing attack drones. The current year may still witness history repeating
  • Any deal that permits Iran to keep centrifuges spinning, continue uranium enrichment, or store nuclear material is a deal that guarantees a future nuclear-armed Iran. We cannot afford a disastrous "JCPOA, the Sequel." Now, after President Trump's return,
  • The international community continues to conspire against the reality of Israel's existence by testing the limits of its sovereignty and threatening the Jewish right to self-determination and self-defense. The EU would never allow an external entity to
  • Palestinians… say that if anyone is stealing the humanitarian aid and food, it is Hamas. Videos posted on social media have shown Hamas thugs brutally beating Palestinians suspected of stealing food for their families. A day earlier, Hamas announced
  • Some Catholics who are sensitive to the Holy See's influence on international affairs may be hoping for a Pope who exercises decisive moral clarity in condemning brutal behavior, whether in Africa, China or elsewhere. Pope Francis seemed to be infrequent
  • I was just a young boy when World War II ended, but I can still remember the enormous burst of elation in my Brooklyn neighborhood when it was announced on May 8, 1945 that Germany had surrendered. We knew that Imperial Japan was still a tough and