Israel

Between Hamas’s butchery, Israel’s grinding war, and a fog of propaganda that makes truth provisional, Gaza is where civilians are crushed while Washington looks away.

Israel’s failure to recognize the full extent of Hamas’ capabilities and intentions leading up to October 7th, 2023, shows that even the most advanced intelligence agencies can overlook critical threats when they make dangerous assumptions about their adversaries.

From Gaza to Michigan, from the Thai-Cambodian border to Trump’s press podium, the world’s on edge—knife attacks in supermarkets, artillery in border towns, and leaders calling not for peace, but for someone to “finish the job.” Welcome to Sunday Morning, July 27, 2025. Here is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

On July 18, the world saw Israel and Syria shake hands after a week of bloodletting, the EU slam Russia with its harshest sanctions yet, and Trump’s DOJ crack open the Epstein vault—three headlines that read like a geopolitical fever dream, but here we are on Saturday morning, July 19, 2025. This is your SOFREP morning brief.

Israel is no longer whispering its red lines to the region—it’s shouting them from 30,000 feet with precision munitions.

You can’t claim to offer humanitarian relief when the entrance to safety is guarded like a fortress—unless, of course, your idea of peace is a gated community built on someone else’s ruin.

From Gaza to Tehran to the blockchain, America’s enemies are throwing grenades, empty promises, and crypto scams—and whether it’s veterans under fire, Iran’s fair-weather friends, or digital con men, the message is clear: the U.S. isn’t backing down. Welcome to the SOFREP evening brief for July 6th, 2025.

As Ukraine mourns a fallen F-16 pilot, Trump burns the midnight oil pushing for peace in Gaza, and 140,000 Serbs flood Belgrade demanding change—one thing’s clear: the world isn’t sleeping, and neither are its people. Welcome to Sunday, June 29, 2025. Here is your SOFREP Morning Brief.

To preserve peace, Israel must be given the freedom to fight—and the United States must stop pretending that diplomacy alone can stop a regime built on terror and lies.

Trump’s big, brash ceasefire rolled off the runway like a flaming shopping cart—loud, chaotic, and destined to explode before anyone could say “mission accomplished.”

Captain William McGonagle didn’t just hold the line aboard the USS Liberty—he held it while bleeding out, commanding a shattered crew through hell, and then kept his mouth shut for thirty years before finally telling the truth.

Mista’arvim units are the terror of Hamas. Indistinguishable from Palestinians the units’ elite operatives blend in and strike at the crucial moment.