Israel Today
Did Iran Want This?
- Title
- Did Iran Want This?
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- A mass casualty attack on Israelis would have served Tehran in three ways. But the plan backfired, and the timing has investigators asking questions. Full episode, link in bio.
#Iran #AbrahamAccords #SaudiArabia #Israel #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- A Hidden Miracle
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- On Sukkot, Israelis sit in flimsy booths to remember that God, not walls, is their shelter. At 33,000 feet, the passengers of FZ1073 had no walls either. Remove any single link of the chain and the story ends in catastrophe. Full episode, link in bio.
#Sukkot #Miracle #Israel #Faith #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- "I Watch Air Crash Investigation"
- Runtime
- 0:33
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- A plumber with no flight training walked into a cockpit where the plane was diving. Yaniv Hayun put the attacker in a chokehold, dragged him from his seat, and grabbed the controls. When the Prime Minister asked how he knew what to do, his answer was unforgettable. Full episode, link in bio.
#Israel #Flydubai #FZ1073 #YanivHayun #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- The Flydubai Miracle: Israelis Stop a Terror Pilot
- Runtime
- 7:37
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
- Description
- On the fourth day of Sukkot, Flydubai Flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv plunged nearly 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds after, according to Israeli officials, the Omani co-pilot stabbed the captain in an apparent attempt to crash the plane. On board were 174 people, almost all of them Israelis, including 27 children.
Reporting from Jerusalem, Ryan Jones tells the story of how a badly wounded Indian captain, an Israeli plumber who rushed into the cockpit, and off-duty pilots sitting in the cabin turned a near-catastrophe into what Israelis are calling a miracle. He also looks at the questions now being asked: who was behind the attack, what Iran stood to gain, and why Saudi Arabia's response may matter for the Abraham Accords.
Topics
- What happened inside the cockpit of Flydubai Flight FZ1073
- Captain Smit Machchhar, who opened the cockpit door despite being stabbed
- Yaniv Hayun, the passenger who subdued the attacker and grabbed the cont...
- Title
- Vacationing on Your Ruins
- Runtime
- 0:24
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- A quiet weekend at a countryside B&B, until Ryan Jones realized where he actually was. The moshav sat on the ruins of Ekron, one of the old Philistine cities that once set out to destroy Israel. And there he was, generations later, resting on their ground. He calls it a belated victory: you tried to wipe us out, and now we vacation on your ruins. Full episode, link in bio.
#IsraelToday #Israel #Ekron #Philistines #BiblicalHistory #HolyLand #Bible #FaithInIsrael #RyanJones #DavidShishkoff #AvielSchneider #Shorts
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- Israel Is Still Here, So the Bible Isn't Finished
- Runtime
- 0:42
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- He came on a church tour to see where Jesus walked. He left with a bigger realization. Growing up, the prophets were just weekly readings in church, until Ryan Jones stood in the land and understood that Israel is still here because God said it would be. And if the promise came true, then the book isn't closed. The Bible is not ancient history. It is still happening, and what happens here still matters. Full episode, link in bio.
#IsraelToday #Israel #Bible #BibleProphecy #HolyLand #ChristianFaith #Prophecy #FaithInIsrael #RyanJones #DavidShishkoff #AvielSchneider #Shorts
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- Living in the Land of the Bible: Standing Where David, Gideon, and Jesus Walked
- Runtime
- 18:37
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- What is it like to live in the land of the Bible, where the events of Scripture are not distant stories but places you can drive to on an ordinary afternoon? In this episode, Ryan Jones in Jerusalem and David Shishkoff in the Galilee talk about coming into daily contact with the ground where biblical history unfolded, from the Valley of Elah where David faced Goliath to the spring where Gideon chose his three hundred men. Along the way they reflect on how standing in these places turns ancient text into living faith, and why the modern rebirth of Israel is itself a reminder that the Bible is not finished.
Topics
- The Valley of Elah and the battle between David and Goliath
- Gideon, the spring of Harod, and the three hills above Ein Dor
- Ekron and the ruins of the Philistine cities
- Chorazin, its black basalt synagogue, and the New Testament
- The Western Wall tunnels, Hezekiah's Tunnel, and Jerusalem's ancient pools
- Sennacherib's si...
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- "How Can You Live in Jerusalem?" — Two Israels, 45 Minutes Apart
- Runtime
- 0:34
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- A security officer in Tel Aviv once asked Ryan Jones how anyone could live in Jerusalem — "the weirdest place in the world." He lived 45 minutes away and had never been. In one small country, secular and religious Israel exist as two separate bubbles that still collide every single day. Ryan on the divide that defines life in the Jewish state. Watch the full episode on our channel.
#Jerusalem #TelAviv #Israel #ReligiousVsSecular #IsraeliSociety #MedinatTelAviv #IsraelToday #AvielSchneider #RyanJones
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- The Foreigner Who Keeps the Sabbath — Isaiah 56
- Runtime
- 0:32
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- The Sabbath sparks every kind of reaction in Israel — from devotion to accusations of legalism. David Shishkoff points to a striking passage in Isaiah 56, where the prophet speaks of foreigners who honor and keep the Sabbath, and says God will give them a name and honor them. A powerful reminder that the day of rest was never meant to divide, but to draw people in. Watch the full conversation on our channel.
#Isaiah56 #Shabbat #Sabbath #Bible #Israel #Faith #MessianicJews #IsraelToday #AvielSchneider #RyanJones #DavidShishkoff
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- Religious vs. Secular Israel: The Divide Over Shabbat, Faith and Identity
- Runtime
- 20:32
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- Ryan Jones in Jerusalem and David Shishkoff in the Galilee, co-editors at Israel Today, sit down to unpack one of the most sensitive fault lines in Israeli society: the tension between religious and secular Jews. From gated streets on Shabbat and the question of public transport to the reputation of Tel Aviv as a state within a state, they explore how two very different Israels share the same small land, and where believers in Yeshua find themselves caught in between.
Topics
- The religious-secular rift and the identity of the "new Israeli"
- Haredi neighborhoods, Mea Shearim, and what a "no-go zone" really means
- Shabbat in public life: buses, cafes, shopping centers and city fines
- "Medinat Tel Aviv" and Israel's wide spectrum of tolerance
- Messianic Jews and Christians caught between the two extremes
- Ishay Ribo and the rise of faith-driven music across the divide
- Rabbinic Judaism, exile, and the search for a new expressio...
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- Gaza Children Abused as Both Weapons and Statistics
- Runtime
- 0:40
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- When Hamas trains children as soldiers, celebrates their deaths as soldiers, but counts them among civilian dead, the numbers no longer tell the truth. A war crime is occurring here, but it's not being perpetrated by Israel.
#IsraelToday #Gaza #Hamas #RyanJones #AvielSchneider #ChildSoldiers #RPGkids #SuhaibAbuLabad #GazaWar #MiddleEast #Israel #DeathToll #IDF #Jerusalem
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- The RPG Kids of Gaza: How a Child Soldier Was Counted Twice
- Runtime
- 4:03
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- A 15- or 16-year-old boy is filmed in the rubble of Gaza with an anti-tank rocket in his hands. When he is killed, that footage becomes a Hamas martyr video - and his name also appears on the Gaza Health Ministry's list of children killed by Israel. This is the story of Suhaib Abu Labad, one of the so-called "RPG kids" of Gaza, and what his case reveals about the recruitment of minors, the manipulation of casualty figures, and the cost of turning children into combatants. Ryan Jones reports from Jerusalem for Israel Today.
Topics
- Who Suhaib Abu Labad was, and why his case made headlines
- The "RPG kids" of Gaza and the footage of minors in combat
- How the same child appears both as a Hamas fighter and as a civilian casualty
- The documented recruitment of minors by armed groups in Gaza
- Hamas youth camps and live weapons training for teenagers
- Why a distorted death toll shapes the way the world judges Israel
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- The Truth Behind Iran's Pro-Regime Crowds
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- Those massive pro-regime rallies in Tehran are not what they look like. Only a small minority of Iranians still back the Supreme Leader — so how does the regime fill a city square? Paid attendance, employer pressure, and the fear of losing your livelihood. A crowd under coercion is not grassroots support. Full breakdown on our channel.
#Iran #Israel #Tehran #IranProtests #IranianRegime #FreeIran #Propaganda #MiddleEast #IranNews #IsraelNews #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- Hostages in Their Own Country
- Runtime
- 0:39
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- We asked a young Iranian exile the obvious question: aren't you afraid when the bombs fall on Tehran? His one-word answer — no — says everything. "We are hostages in our own country," he told us. The Iranian people are not the regime, and his family in Tehran already knows we have no fight with them. Full conversation on our channel.
#Iran #Israel #Tehran #FreeIran #IranianRegime #HumanRights #MiddleEast #IranNews #IsraelNews #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- Why Iranians Pray for the Bombs
- Runtime
- 0:35
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- "When Israel and the Americans bomb us, we rejoice." That is not a soldier or a politician — it is a young man from Tehran. Why would anyone hope for bombs to fall on their own city? His answer reveals the Iran most people misunderstand. Watch the full conversation on our channel.
#Iran #Israel #Tehran #FreeIran #IranianRegime #IranProtests #MiddleEast #IranNews #IsraelNews #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- Why Iranians Cheer When Israel Strikes Tehran — An Exile Speaks Out
- Runtime
- 10:49
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- Why would an Iranian rejoice when Israeli and American bombs fall on Tehran? In this episode, Israel Today’s Ryan Jones shares a rare conversation with a young Iranian exile — we call him Arash — who explains why so many of his people see strikes on the regime as their only hope for freedom. From human shields and public executions to the coerced crowds behind the regime’s staged rallies, this is the Iran the mullahs do not want the world to see.
Topics
- Why many Iranians welcome strikes on the regime
- “Hostages in our own country”: daily life under the mullahs
- The IRGC’s use of human shields — and the parallel with Hamas in Gaza
- The girls’ school incident and the regime’s propaganda machine
- Executions, the morality police, and the price of dissent
- How the regime pressures Iranian exiles and their families in Europe
- The truth behind the pro-regime crowds and funeral rallies
- The stagge...
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- The Real Story Is Reconciliation
- Runtime
- 0:34
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- For over a thousand years, it was Christians who persecuted Jews — not the other way around. Ryan Jones points to the history most people overlook: centuries of Christian hostility toward the Jewish people, with every reason for lasting resentment. Yet the vast majority of Jews today hold no overriding anger toward Christians. The real story, he argues, isn't hostility from the Jewish side — it's how, in just a few decades, Jews and Christians have genuinely reconciled. That reversal is the part almost nobody talks about. Full episode — link in bio.
#JewishChristianRelations #Reconciliation #Israel #Christians #Jerusalem #HolyLand #FaithAndHistory #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- "After Saturday Comes Sunday": First the Jews, Then the Christians
- Runtime
- 0:17
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- "After Saturday comes Sunday." It sounds harmless — until you know what extremists mean by it. David Shishkoff unpacks the slogan tied to jihadist and fundamentalist movements: Saturday stands for the Jews, Sunday for the Christians. The message is chillingly simple — once we're finished with the Jews, the Christians are next. It's a warning that has already played out across parts of the Middle East, where ancient Christian communities have been driven from their homes. Full episode — link in bio.
#AfterSaturdayComesSunday #MiddleEastChristians #ChristianPersecution #Israel #Jerusalem #HolyLand #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider #DavidShishkoff
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- Christians Are Disappearing Across the Middle East — Except in Israel
- Runtime
- 0:39
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- Across Syria, Lebanon, and northern Iraq, ancient Christian communities have been driven out by war and persecution. Inside Israel, the Christian population is actually growing. Ryan Jones lays out the contrast: regions that were once home to large — in Lebanon's case, majority — Christian populations have watched them collapse, while the number of Christians in Israel keeps rising. Which is exactly why, he argues, it's disingenuous to paint Israel as a place where Christians are abused. The numbers just don't back it up. Full episode — link in bio.
#ChristiansInIsrael #MiddleEastChristians #Israel #Syria #Lebanon #Iraq #ChristianPersecution #HolyLand #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- 30 Years a Christian in Israel — Never Once Spat On
- Runtime
- 0:47
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- Thirty-plus years living openly as a Christian in Israel — and not once spat on, cursed, or mistreated for his faith. Ryan Jones raised his family in a Jewish neighborhood: his kids in normal Israeli schools, his wife in a public hospital, everyone knowing they're Christian. When it does come up, it's almost always positive — neighbors asking why he'd choose to live among them. The "Israel persecutes Christians" narrative pushed by antagonists abroad just doesn't match the reality on the ground. Full conversation — link in bio.
#ChristiansInIsrael #Israel #Jerusalem #Testimony #HolyLand #Christian #MiddleEast #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider #DavidShishkoff
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- The Truth About Christians in Israel
- Runtime
- 18:29
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
- Description
- Is Israel really hostile toward Christians? Israel Today’s Ryan Jones — a Christian who has lived openly in Israel for more than 30 years — is joined by fellow editor David Shishkoff in the Galilee to confront the growing online claim that Jews systematically mistreat Christians. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience, conversations with Arab Christian Israelis, and the data behind Israel’s rare and growing Christian population, they separate isolated incidents from the reality on the ground — and ask why that narrative took hold in the first place.
Topics
- The online narrative that Israel and Jews are hostile toward Christians
- Ryan Jones’s 30-plus years living openly as a Christian in a Jewish neighborhood
- The Tucker Carlson interview with an anti-Israel nun
- David Shishkoff’s perspective from the Arab Christian communities of the Galilee
- Why Israel is the only country in the Middle East with a growing Christian popu...
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- Israel Already Has a Guardian
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- It's easy to explain Israel as a geopolitical project — established after the Holocaust, protected by weapons, tolerated by the world. That story has one advantage: it leaves God out of it.
The Jewish people didn't return home because the West was feeling generous. They returned after centuries of exile, after Europe became a graveyard for six million — because this was their land, their history, their home. And still, Israel has never treated faith as a substitute for duty. It prepares, it fights, it buries its fallen and goes back to work the next morning.
But when leaders in Washington and Berlin suggest Israel survives only by their leave, they claim too much. Neither is the source of Israel's right to live. Neither is the author of its resurrection. Israel already has a Guardian — one who does not sit in the Oval Office or the United Nations, and who neither slumbers nor sleeps.
Full episode on our YouTube channel @israel-today. Link in...
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- Israel Is Not a Western Outpost
- Runtime
- 0:42
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Western leaders like to speak about Israel as an outpost they established — a project they subsidize. It is none of those things.
The Jewish people did not return to their ancestral homeland because the West was feeling generous. They returned after centuries of exile, persecution, expulsion, and massacre. They returned after Europe became a graveyard for six million Jews. They returned because this was their land, their history, their home.
And for those who take the Bible seriously, they returned because God said this is exactly what would happen.
Full episode on our YouTube channel @israel-today. Link in bio.
#Israel #IsraelToday #Zionism #JewishHistory #IsraelAndTheBible #Aliyah #MiddleEast #FaithAndNation #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- Before the West Showed Up
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- German Chancellor Merz says Israel wouldn't exist without German support. The chronology says otherwise.
Israel was born in May 1948, and the day it declared independence, its neighbors launched war. It survived that war under an arms embargo — its fighters found weapons largely through Czechoslovakia, not an American or German arsenal. Germany didn't begin significant arms sales until 1962. The first American Hawk missiles were only approved that same year.
By the time Western support arrived, Israel had already lived through its most precarious years — and survived. Friendship is real. But no capital gets to claim it kept Israel alive.
Full episode on our YouTube channel @israel-today. Link in bio.
#Israel #IsraelToday #IsraelHistory #1948 #Merz #Germany #JewishHistory #MiddleEast #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- Israel Wouldn't Exist Without Germany and America?
- Runtime
- 11:28
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently said that without German military support, Israel would no longer exist. President Donald Trump has made a similar claim about American backing. Both leaders affirm Israel's right to exist, but they cast their own nations as indispensable to its survival.
In this episode, Ryan Jones examines that claim from Jerusalem. He walks through the inconvenient chronology: the United States resisted becoming a major arms supplier to Israel until the 1962 Hawk missile deal, and Western military arsenals were largely closed to the Jewish state during its most precarious years, from 1948 to 1962. In that period Israel declared independence, survived invasion by five armies, absorbed hundreds of thousands of refugees, and built a nation from scratch, largely on its own.
Western support is real and consequential, and Israel values its friendships. But friendship is not ownership. This episode argues that neither Washington nor Berlin...
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- Defense Exports Are Diplomacy
- Runtime
- 1:15
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Buying serious defense systems isn't a one-time purchase — it's a long-term relationship.
Training, maintenance, intelligence sharing, industrial cooperation, coordination between militaries. It runs on trust. Countries don't build their national defense around partners they see as temporary or unreliable.
That's why Israel's defense exports aren't merely good business — they're a form of diplomacy. Every radar sold abroad, every interceptor deployed by an allied military, every training program binds Israel more closely to the security of other nations. Those countries won't agree with Israel on every political decision. But when their people face danger, they know Israel has something of value to offer — and that's a far more durable relationship than a sympathetic speech at the United Nations.
Israel isn't just surviving in one of the world's most dangerous neighborhoods. It's producing the tools that help other democracies survive their ...
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- You Can't Boycott Reality
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Condemned at the UN, courted for its air defense.
This week Greece signed a massive defense agreement with Israel — and Israel's defense exports just hit a record 19.2 billion dollars in 2025, led by air defense systems.
The countries that actually have to protect their citizens are looking past the slogans. They see what Israel has built out of necessity: systems forced to learn, innovate, and adapt faster than everyone else. You cannot easily boycott reality.
The world may debate Israel, criticize it, push it toward isolation. But when the alarm sounds and a hostile missile is in the sky, rhetoric is not enough. You need a shield — and increasingly that shield is Israeli.
Full episode on our YouTube channel @israel-today. Link in bio.
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#Israel #IsraelToday #AirDefense #Greece #AchillesShield #DefenseExports #IronDome #DavidsSling #Arrow3 #MiddleEast #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- Achilles Shield: Europe Relies on Israel Even While Condemning It
- Runtime
- 7:30
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Israel is condemned in international forums and pressured in European capitals, yet the same governments that criticize Jerusalem are increasingly building their national defense around Israeli technology. In this episode, Ryan Jones examines the gap between the diplomatic rhetoric aimed at Israel and the strategic reality on the ground, where democracies from Greece to Germany are turning to Israeli air defense to protect their citizens.
The starting point is Greece's roughly 3 billion euro “Achilles Shield” agreement, one of the largest defense deals in Israel's history, under which Israel will build Greece a multi-layered air defense network using systems such as David's Sling, SPYDER, and Barak MX. From Germany's Arrow 3 to Finland's David's Sling and Slovakia's Barak MX, a clear pattern is emerging: when missiles are in the sky, rhetoric is not enough, and nations choose the shield that works.
Topics Covered
• Greece's roughly 3 billion euro ...
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- What Really Radicalizes Gaza
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- If the Board of Peace keeps repeating the tired claim that Israeli reluctance is behind every future escalation, Israel Today's Ryan Jones warns it will only make things worse.
Yes, Palestinians could be radicalized further. But not because Israel failed to surrender enough or take enough risks. They'll be radicalized because the international community will have taught them, again, that rejectionism pays — that refusing compromise brings pressure on Israel, that violence produces sympathy, that terrorism is a path to political victory.
Israel learned where that road leads in 2005. The world should have learned it on October 7.
Peace won't come from pretending Hamas is a reaction to Israeli policy. It comes only when Hamas's ideology is defeated, its weapons are removed, and Gaza's people are offered a future that doesn't depend on destroying the Jewish state.
#Gaza #Hamas #Israel #IsraelToday #BoardOfPeace #October7 #TrumpPeacePlan...
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- Gaza Disarmament Is Foundational
- Runtime
- 0:50
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Disarmament isn't a detail you can postpone until after the aid flows.
Israel Today's Ryan Jones lays out the red lines: Hamas cannot keep its weapons. It cannot control schools, mosques, charities, or police. It cannot be allowed to declare victory simply because it survived another war.
Skip disarmament, and reconstruction just hands Hamas more to exploit — more concrete for its tunnels, more money to divert, more time to reorganize, and eventually more victims on both sides.
The Trump plan may contain important elements. But it stands little chance if it assumes Gaza is one diplomatic breakthrough away from moderation. It isn't.
#Gaza #Hamas #Israel #IsraelToday #Disarmament #TrumpPeacePlan #BoardOfPeace #October7 #MiddleEast #Jerusalem #RyanJones
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- October 7 Didn't Come From Nowhere
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- The October 7 massacre didn't come from nowhere.
It wasn't caused by a shortage of international conferences or Western peace proposals. Israel Today's Ryan Jones says it was the result of an ideology that had been allowed to rule Gaza, recruit there, and prepare the ground for war.
So when officials warn that Gaza "will be radicalized" if this new peace plan fails, it's worth asking: what do they think was happening in Gaza for the past two decades? Hamas had no trouble raising a massive fighting force from the local population, and Palestinian support for it has run deep — before October 7 and after, even through the destruction the war brought.
That's the point. Gaza doesn't merely need reconstruction. It needs to be de-radicalized.
#Gaza #Hamas #Israel #IsraelToday #October7 #Deradicalization #TrumpPeacePlan #MiddleEast #Jerusalem #GazaWar #RyanJones
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- Gaza Became a Warning
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- In 2005, Israel did something extraordinarily painful.
It uprooted every Jewish community in the Gaza Strip. Families were removed from homes they'd built over decades. Synagogues, farms, businesses, schools — all left behind. Israel withdrew its forces and handed the entire territory over to Palestinian control.
The theory was simple: remove the Israelis, give the Palestinians room to build, and maybe Gaza becomes a model of peace. Instead, Gaza became a warning.
Neither Hamas nor the Palestinian public read the withdrawal as an invitation to coexistence. Israel Today's Ryan Jones explains why it was interpreted as proof that terror works — and why rewarding terror doesn't produce moderation. It produces October 7.
#Gaza #Israel #IsraelToday #Disengagement #2005 #Hamas #October7 #MiddleEast #Jerusalem #IsraeliHistory #RyanJones
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- Gaza Is Already Radicalized
- Runtime
- 0:48
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Gaza is not waiting to be radicalized. It already is.
We keep being told that if President Trump's Gaza plan fails, another generation of Palestinians will be radicalized — that without more concessions and more reconstruction, we're planting the seeds of the next war. Israel Today's Ryan Jones says that gets the sequence exactly backwards.
The real challenge isn't preventing some future radicalization. It's de-radicalizing a society that Hamas spent decades shaping through terror, intimidation, propaganda, and totalitarian control.
#Gaza #Hamas #Israel #IsraelToday #October7 #TrumpPeacePlan #BoardOfPeace #Deradicalization #MiddleEast #Jerusalem #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- Gaza Is Already Radicalized: How Trump's Board of Peace Is Repeating Past Mistakes
- Runtime
- 8:13
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Gaza is not waiting to be radicalized — it already is. In this episode, Israel Today’s Ryan Jones argues that the international community keeps getting the sequence backwards. The real challenge in Gaza is not preventing some future wave of radicalization; it is de-radicalizing a society that Hamas spent decades shaping through terror, intimidation, propaganda, and totalitarian control.
Drawing on the lesson of Israel’s 2005 Gaza disengagement — when Israel uprooted every Jewish community and withdrew entirely from the Strip — Ryan explains why reconstruction without the disarmament of Hamas risks repeating the mistakes that led to October 7. Aid and rebuilding matter, but they are not a strategy for defeating the ideology that turned Gaza into a launching pad for mass murder. Any serious peace plan, including President Trump’s, must put de-radicalization and disarmament first.
Topics
● Why “Gaza will be radicalized if peace fails” gets...
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- What "Greater Israel" Could Actually Mean
- Runtime
- 1:31
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- "Greater Israel" doesn't have to mean military conquest and direct rule from Jerusalem. Even at the height of Israel's biblical boundaries under King Solomon, much of the surrounding territory was held through influence and alliances rather than direct control. Ryan Jones argues a modern version could emerge the same way — through communities like the Druze in southern Syria seeking Israeli protection over rule by the forces now governing Damascus.
#Israel #GreaterIsrael #Druze #Syria #MiddleEast #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- Is the "Greater Israel" Accusation a Modern Blood Libel?
- Runtime
- 0:55
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Ryan Jones argues that the accusations against Israel amount to a blood libel — an outrageous charge of bloodlust and conquest that endangers Jewish communities everywhere. He draws on the psychology of projection and the observation of the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: to know what Israel's enemies are guilty of, look at what they accuse the Jews of doing. It's an old pattern, reaching back to medieval times.
#Israel #BloodLibel #Antisemitism #JonathanSacks #TuckerCarlson #IsraelToday #DavidShishkoff #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- Who Really Wants to Conquer the Middle East?
- Runtime
- 1:08
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Viral videos accuse Israel of wanting to manipulate the United States into expanding its territory. But there's a psychological pattern worth noticing: accusing others of the very thing you would want to do yourself. After 1400 years in which vast regions were conquered and colonized, the charge that Israel seeks more land doesn't match the reality of those who have lived here for decades.
#Israel #GreaterIsrael #MiddleEast #TuckerCarlson #IsraelToday #DavidShishkoff #AvielSchneider
- Title
- No One in Israel Is Actually Saying This
- Runtime
- 0:56
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Some biblical passages describe Israel's territory reaching as far as the Euphrates, and a rumor has spread that this is the modern goal. But two journalists living in Israel for decades say they've never met anyone advocating it. Even the most hardline right-wing activists aren't pushing to conquer Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, or Egypt — and certainly no one in the government is.
#Israel #GreaterIsrael #MiddleEast #Euphrates #IsraelToday #DavidShishkoff #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
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- Biblical Boundaries: The Truth About "Greater Israel"
- Runtime
- 14:59
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Is Israel really plotting to conquer the Middle East? Israel Today editors Ryan Jones (Jerusalem) and David Shishkoff (Galilee) confront the viral “Greater Israel” accusation — the claim that Israel is exploiting the war that began on October 7, 2023, to seize the lands promised to Abraham “from the river to the river.” Speaking from the ground after decades living in Israel, they explain what the Bible's territorial boundaries actually meant, why no Israeli government is pursuing regional conquest, and how commentators such as Tucker Carlson have turned an ancient promise into a modern blood libel.
The conversation moves from Scripture to today's headlines: King Solomon's tributary client states versus direct rule, the Syrian Druze and the Kurds who are asking for Israeli protection, the historical precedent of Lebanon's Christians under Israeli protection until 2000, and the provocative case that Jordan already functions as a de facto client state of Israel.
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- The Biblical Reason Israel's Isolation Shouldn't Surprise Us
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- From a biblical perspective, Israel's growing isolation shouldn't surprise us. Again and again in Scripture, Israel is pressed by its enemies and disappointed by its allies until there is no one left to cry out to but the God of Israel. Israel must still defend itself — militarily, legally, diplomatically — but alliances, military superiority, and international approval cannot be allowed to become idols.
#Israel #Bible #Scripture #Faith #MiddleEast #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
- Title
- When Selective Outrage Against Israel Becomes Antisemitism
- Runtime
- 0:54
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- The world tells Israel to protect civilians while barely confronting the terrorists who fight from among them — then condemns Israel when a war against a tunnel army looks like war. When the Jewish state is judged by standards applied to no other nation, there's a word for that. Sometimes antisemitism comes dressed not in swastikas but in international concern, legal sophistication, and humanitarian language.
#Israel #Hamas #October7 #MiddleEast #Gaza #Antisemitism #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
- Title
- Israel Hoped the World's Moral Clarity Would Last
- Runtime
- 0:41
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Israelis hoped that after October 7th, the moral clarity would last — that the burned homes, murdered families, and hostages would keep the world from playing its usual game. But no country could accept a Hamas army on its border, and no Jewish state could put avoiding criticism above removing a genocidal terrorist threat.
#Israel #Hamas #October7 #MiddleEast #Gaza #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
- Title
- Hamas and the Value of Civilian Casualties
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- The architects of October 7th wanted a war fought through tunnels, schools, mosques, and hospitals — because civilian suffering was central to their strategy. Hamas built a military system inside a civilian society, understanding that Israel would be blamed and that the world would forget how the war began.
#Israel #Hamas #October7 #MiddleEast #Gaza #IDF #IsraelToday #RyanJones #AvielSchneider
- Title
- Hamas' Path to Victory: How October 7 Could Still Defeat Israel
- Runtime
- 11:28
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Hamas may lose Gaza — its tunnels, its commanders, even its power to govern — and still walk away with the one thing it set out to win on October 7th. Reporting from Jerusalem for Israel Today, Ryan Jones argues that October 7th was never about defeating the IDF on the battlefield. It was about forcing Israel into a war that would shift the global conversation, turn Palestinian suffering into the center of world attention, and recast Israel from the victim of a massacre into the defendant in the court of public opinion.
This episode unpacks the two wars Israel is fighting at once: the military war inside Gaza, and the legitimacy war being waged in international courts, in the media, and on the streets. Winning one while losing the other, Ryan warns, would still hand Israel's enemies the strategic prize they were after all along — and it closes with a biblical reflection on where Israel's ultimate security truly lies.
Topics Covered
- Why Oc...
- Title
- Gaza’s Incendiary Kites: Why Israel Takes Them Seriously
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Incendiary kites from Gaza may appear harmless—but Israel has faced this threat before.
Beginning in 2018, kites and balloons carrying burning fuel, charcoal and firebombs ignited agricultural fields, forests and protected nature reserves across southern Israel. This Israel Today short explains the history behind “kite terrorism” and why renewed launches are seen as a warning of potentially greater escalation.
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#Israel #Gaza #IncendiaryKites #KiteTerrorism #Hamas #IsraelNews #MiddleEast
- Title
- Why Israel Fears “Children’s Toys”: The Truth About Incendiary Kites #avielschneider #israel-today
- Runtime
- 0:44
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Why would Israel be concerned about kites and balloons?
What critics dismiss as harmless children’s toys have been used as weapons against Israeli communities. Since 2018, incendiary kites and balloons carrying burning fuel, charcoal and even firebombs have been flown across the border into southern Israel.
This Israel Today short reveals the important context behind Israel’s response to so-called “kite terrorism.”
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#Israel #Gaza #IncendiaryBalloons #KiteTerrorism #IsraelNews #MiddleEast
- Title
- Why Israel Won't Ignore Gaza's Kites
- Runtime
- 4:11
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- A few kites drifting over the Gaza border sounds almost comical — and Israel's critics have been quick to mock the Jewish state for treating children's toys as a security threat. But that reaction leaves out the context. Reporting from Jerusalem for Israel Today, Ryan Jones explains what "kite terrorism" really is, where it came from, and why Israelis see a handful of kites from Gaza not as a joke, but as the warning sign of something far more serious.
The tactic dates back to 2018, when incendiary kites and balloon clusters carrying burning fuel and firebombs set thousands of acres of Israeli farmland, forest, and nature reserves ablaze, forcing evacuations in some border communities. For those living near Gaza, the kites reappearing now signal a possible return to a daily routine of low-level terrorism — and a prelude to worse. This episode restores the context the headlines leave out.
Topics Covered:
- What "kite terrorism" is and how the tactic w...
- Title
- Title:Torah Study or Military Service: What Protects Israel? #avielschneider #israeltoday
- Runtime
- 0:49
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Many Haredi Jews believe that studying Torah and the Talmud provides spiritual protection for Israel—and is even more important than military service.
This Israel Today discussion explains the religious argument behind opposition to the ultra-Orthodox draft, and why attempts to enlist yeshiva students are viewed by many Haredim as an attack on the Torah itself.
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#Israel #Torah #Haredim #IDF #Judaism #UltraOrthodox
- Title
- Israel’s Reservists Are Being Pushed to the Limit #avielschneider #israeltoday
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Some Israeli reservists have already completed four, five or even six tours of duty since the war began. As Israel confronts threats across Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran, the same soldiers and families are repeatedly carrying the burden.
Why does the IDF urgently need more combat soldiers—and why is the exemption of ultra-Orthodox men creating such deep frustration?
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#Israel #IDF #IsraeliReservists #Haredim #GazaWar #MiddleEast
- Title
- Israel Needs 30,000 Soldiers—Can the Haredim Fill the Gap? #avielschneider #israeltoday
- Runtime
- 0:46
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
- Description
- Israel’s military faces a shortage of an estimated 20,000–30,000 combat soldiers. At the same time, tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are of military age but do not serve in the IDF.
This Israel Today discussion looks at the numbers behind the Haredi draft controversy—and why the issue has become so urgent during wartime.
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#Israel #IDF #Haredim #IsraeliArmy #UltraOrthodox #IsraelNews
