On Friday, Yasser Abu Shabab, a young, slight Gazan militia leader who was at the forefront of the domestic Arab resistance against Hamas was killed. According to reports, Abu Shabab died trying to resolve a dispute between Gazan families in a town square in southern Rafah.       Read complete article…

Just before Thanksgiving, President Trump signed an Executive Order directing the relevant government entities to begin the process of designating Muslim Brotherhood affiliates as terrorist organizations. The President’s Order, and the forthcoming designations, are long overdue.       Read complete article…

More than four years ago, a CUFI Action Fund staff member warned in an op-ed that America’s – to that point – $2 billion investment in the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) had failed to achieve the desired results. Around the same time, we met a senior policy maker with a leading voice on defense issues and discussed our view that swaths of the LAF are married to Hezbollah. Our warnings were dismissed.       Read complete article…

I told you so. Four words no one ever wants to hear, yet at times, are absolutely called for. So, let’s begin the CUFI Action Update I Told You So (ITYS) edition. Incidentally, it is our sincere hope that this is a one-off, but we suspect it will become a recurring feature.       Read complete article…

Over the past two months, members of the CUFI Action Fund Team have been in and out of Israel on a number of occasions. In fact, one of the authors of today’s Update is there right now. As a result, we have had the opportunity to see snapshots of Israel and its people, to feel the air and listen to the voices. Here’s what we’ve seen.       Read complete article…

Monday morning in Israel, the last 20 living hostages held by Gazan terrorists were released to their loved ones. The remains of just four hostages were returned, and while Hamas has claimed trouble with locating the rest, as of this writing, four more bodies are set to be repatriated. An Egyptian team has entered Gaza to “facilitate” recovering Israel’s abducted dead.       Read complete article…

This week marks the two-year anniversary of the October 7th Massacre. As this is being written, Israeli and American officials are in Egypt to participate in negotiations with senior Hamas terrorists. We are hopeful that the war can finally come to an end, but we are not so naïve as to think anything is done until the last hostage is home.       Read complete article…

On Monday, President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House to discuss, according to President Trump, “Iran, trade, the expansion of the Abraham Accords, and… how to end the war in Gaza.”       Read complete article…

  This week, several Western countries, including the UK, France, Australia and Canada, concluded their complete capitulation to the antisemitic elements within their domestic constituencies and recognized the state of “Palestine.” The question is, what does this actually mean?       Read complete article…

  The bulk of today’s Action Update will focus on the state of the hostages and related events in Gaza. But before we dive in, we note that on Monday, two Palestinian terrorists fired makeshift sub-machine guns at Israelis at a major intersection near Jerusalem – the Ramon Junction. Six people were killed, 10 were injured. An off-duty soldier in the IDF’s Hasmonean Brigade, as well as several armed civilians, killed the terrorists. One of their accomplices was later arrested.