ISRAEL - The president of Israel yesterday condemned the BBC for its 'atrocious' refusal to brand Hamas as a terrorist group. Isaac Herzog dramatically piled pressure on the corporation in an exclusive interview with the Mail. The veteran statesman is the most senior critic yet of the BBC's dogged insistence on describing baby-killing gunmen as 'militants'. He said: 'I feel the BBC's reporting is atrocious. The fact that it does not recognise Hamas as a terror organisation requires a complete legal battle and public battle. It's unbelievable. What other type of torture do they want before they decide it was a terrorist organisation?' Mr Herzog complained his country was treated differently when it came to atrocities and this had 'always been the case'.

ISRAEL - Right now, we are all witnessing some of the most pivotal moments in all of human history. For a long time, I warned my readers that a great war would be coming to the Middle East. In fact, I specifically warned that it would be one of “the 3 wars of the apocalypse”. I didn’t expect the Great Middle East War to arrive quite so quickly, but here we are. Once thousands of missiles start flying back and forth, none of our lives will ever be the same again. We are literally watching an apocalyptic scenario play out right in front of our eyes, and it is all going to begin once Israeli forces move into Gaza. That could happen very soon, because Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant just told Israeli troops that they will be seeing Gaza “from the inside” very shortly…

UK - Electric cars risk becoming effectively uninsurable as analysts struggle to put a price on battery repairs, the researcher for the car insurance industry has said. Jonathan Hewett, chief executive of Thatcham Research, the motor insurers’ automotive research centre, said a lack of “insight and understanding” about the cost of repairing damaged electric car batteries was pushing up premiums and resulting in some providers declining to provide cover altogether.

USA - The world is in upheaval as the old cultures that built modern civilization succumb to socialism. Nobody knows where it will take us as we watch helplessly the implosion of our Anglo-centric structures. The plain-sight goal of hegemonic progressives is to collectivize property and people into a global pool of nobody-nothingness, while middle-class private ownership (responsible self-sufficiency) and the existence of meaningful persons shrink toward zero. Socialism is often mistakenly reduced to an economic construct, or to one of its scientific sub-theories such as Marxism or communism. However, in its essence, it is a spiritual condition with a structural narrative that can be summarized as follows: A chosen people are called to destroy the old world and liberate society from its cultural captivity, ushering in a new Golden Age. This is achieved through the abolition of private property and family, hostility toward religion, and a general push for commonality or “sameness,” which is mischaracterized as “equality.”

GERMANY - Companies like SpaceX, with its huge fleet of satellites and rockets, represent dangerous competition for established space-faring countries. Germany is hoping its construction of a new spaceport, expected to launch its first rockets in April, can better its position. Germany's new facility will not be land-based, like the Cape Canaveral space station in the United States or Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Instead, the spaceport will launch from a platform in the North Sea. To start, Dutch company T-Minus will launch a rocket from the German-Offshore Spaceport Alliance (GOSA) mobile platform. The launch pad will be built some 350 kilometers from the coast in the remotest corner of Germany's Exclusive Economic Zone. The Federation of German Industries (BDI) announced the location at a space congress in Berlin. Each launch will be supervised by a control ship and a new multifunctional Mission Control Center in Bremen, Germany. The ship's home port will be located in Bremerhaven, a port city located next to Bremen.

SAUDI ARABIA - Thousands of US Army troops land at Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia. It is rumored that these 10,000 troops will be deployed to conflict areas to maintain security and stability in the Middle East region. We’re moving our military out to foreign countries while our own homeland is being invaded…. what can possibly go wrong?

ISRAEL - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday the Hamas attack on Israel was aimed at preventing the expansion of peace in the Middle East, and called on British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to keep supporting Israel's Gaza counteroffensive. Sunak is the latest Western leader to visit Jerusalem to show support for Israel and to try to negotiate a way to secure the release of hostages taken by Hamas and ease the provision of humanitarian aid to people in Gaza. The British leader then flew to Saudi Arabia to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who stressed to Sunak that the kingdom considered targeting civilians in Gaza "a heinous crime," the Saudi state news agency reported.

USA - On today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show, I said that as of 5am this morning I was 85% sure the “bombing” of a hospital in Gaza City was from Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the “junior” terrorist group in Gaza. By mid-afternoon today, I’m at 99%; one can never be 100% sure of things like this in a world where pretty much anything can be faked. At 99%, I’d say it’s pretty certain. Conservative commentator Benny Johnson laid out some condemnation for corporate media that echoed the initial false report as if it was gospel… Hamas said Israel bombed a hospital and killed 500 people. We now have found out that:

• Israel didn’t do it, it was a misfire by a terror group.
• The hospital wasn’t bombed, it was a parking lot.
• There is no evidence that 500 died beyond what Hamas said.

IRAN - All of the signs are telling us that a war between Israel and Hezbollah is imminent. And once it begins, the US and Iran will inevitably get sucked into the conflict as well. We are literally talking about an apocalyptic scenario, and that is going to have enormous implications for all of us. Hezbollah has an arsenal of 130,000 missiles that it can launch at Israeli cities, Iran possesses even greater firepower than Hezbollah does, and the Israelis have quite a few surprises up their sleeves. I will just leave it at that for now. As this war evolves, the entire world will be shocked by the death and destruction that we witness. Unfortunately, there is no turning back now.

USA - As I was walking to my office to write this article, I quietly uttered the phrase “the world is completely going mad” to myself. Just about every form of evil that you can possibly imagine is exploding all around us, and now “war fever” is sweeping across the entire globe. Unfortunately, the people that want war are going to get exactly what they have been clamoring for, and the consequences are going to be extremely bitter.

USA - A large portion of Americans on both sides of the aisle favor getting rid of democracy and imposing violence on their political opponents, among other authoritarian measures, according to a new poll. Thirty-one percent of Donald Trump supporters and 24% of President Joe Biden supporters said democracy is “no longer viable” and an alternative system should be tried, according to an October poll from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.

HOLLAND - Dutch political commentator, Eva Vlaardingerbroek: Unelected globalists are using the pretext of "reducing nitrogen emissions" to shut down the global farming industry, so people will have no choice but to eat insects and lab-grown "meat", under the banner of UN Agenda 2030. "The people behind this want to establish a one world government, a 'New World Order', in which they decide what we eat, when we eat, where we travel, when we travel, who we meet, and what we are allowed to spend our money on. Basically, control over every single aspect of our lives." "They don't want us to eat foods that make us strong. They want us to eat synthetic meat created by Bill Gates. They want us to eat bugs, they want us to drink soy milk, so that we become weak and obedient, and we do as they say."

RUSSIA - A gleeful Putin has declared that China is 'in tune with Russian ideas' as President Xi has praised the two countries' 'continually deepening mutual trust' while attending a luxurious banquet in Beijing. Russian leader Vladimir Putin also stressed that close political coordination was 'necessary in current difficult times'. 'We have repeatedly pointed out that Russia and China and the majority of states in the world share aspirations for mutual cooperation, for comprehensive and sustainable economic progress, and social well-being,' he added. Chinese President Xi Jinping also called for joint efforts by China and Russia to 'safeguard international fairness' and 'justice', Beijing's state news agency Xinhua reported, hailing the 'close and effective strategic coordination' between their two countries.

CHINA - The leaders of China and Russia hailed each other as “old” and “dear” friends. They took swipes at the United States and depicted themselves as building a “fairer, multipolar world.” And they marveled at their countries’ “deepening” trust. China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, used a Beijing-led conference of leaders from mostly developing countries on Wednesday to showcase his ambitions to reshape the global order, as the world grapples with a war in Ukraine and a crisis in Gaza. He cast his country as an alternative to the leadership of the United States. And he gave a prominent role to President Vladimir V Putin of Russia, underscoring how central their relationship is to Mr Xi’s vision.

USA - New Global Divisions on View as Biden Goes to Israel and Putin to China. As President Biden lands in Israel on Wednesday seeking to display undying American support for the country in the midst of an intensifying crisis after a deadly explosion at a hospital in the Gaza Strip, President Vladimir V Putin of Russia is in Beijing, meeting with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, seeking to display their “no limits” partnership.