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Chuck Holton is an American war correspondent, published author, and motivational speaker.
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Hostage Rescued Alive

This is a statement by Daniel Hagari about what happened.

An Israeli hostage was rescued alive by IDF troops from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip earlier today, the military announces.

The rescued hostage is Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, from a Bedouin community near the southern city of Rahat, who was working as a guard at a packing factory in Kibbutz Magen on October 7. Al-Qadi was abducted by Hamas terrorists from the nearby community of Mivtahim.

Al-Qadi was found alive inside a tunnel by commandos of the Navy’s elite Shayetet 13 unit. The operation was led by the IDF Southern Command, Shin Bet security agency, and the IDF’s 162nd Division.

He is said to be in good health.

It is now believed that 104 of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.

Hamas released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released before that. Eight hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 30 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military as they tried to escape their captors.

Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.

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Benjamin Netanyahu Explains the Israeli Economy

Netanyahu was once Israeli Finance Minister - and it shows. He understands a lot about economics, and is worth listening to in order to get a sense for where Israel's economy is headed.

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September 12, 2025
Video of Kirk’s Killer

BREAKING: The FBI and state of Utah have just released video of the Charlie Kirk kiIIer escaping from the scene following the shooting

He jumped off the rooftop, moved quickly through the parking lot, and then began walking casually to blend in before entering a wooded area.

He was wearing converse tennis shoes, a shirt with an eagle, and a baseball cap with a triangle.

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September 07, 2025
Houthi Drone Strikes Israel - Two Wounded

Three Houthi drones were fired at Israel on Sunday. Two were shot down and the third struck the airport in Eilat, Wounding to his Israelis and causing the airspace to be shut down.

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Episode 622 - Field Producer Dennis Azato and Chuck Reminisce

My erstwhile field producer and cameraman Dennis Azato has accompanied me on ten years of adventures across the globe. Today he joins me in Ukraine and we spend some time remembering our many trips together.

Episode 622 - Field Producer Dennis Azato and Chuck Reminisce

My friends, Don and Elaine Schiffer, who live Just a few short miles away from where the eye came ashore yesterday, As denoted by the red arrow in this picture, have reported in and are safe. However, who knows when supplies will be delivered to them. Every road is impassable or washed out. Thank you all for continuing in prayer.

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"Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you." (Ephesians 4:31-32)

We need God's grace every day to be more thick-skinned and tender-hearted. In my natural self, I'm quick-tempered, defensive and prideful; among other shameful things. But praise be to God, that in Jesus, we are all able to love sincerely, and walk in grace and truth, through the power of His might. For we have everything we need spiritually, as new creatures, but we have to utilize His provision through faith and obedience.

"Put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth." (Ephesians 4:24)

Hey all.... I am sure many of you are following Hurricane Melissa. This is particularly difficult for me as I spent a few years living there as a missionary/teacher. I also have good friends there now who are in the worst part of the storm at this very moment. I have been connected to this area since 1993 to some extent or another. Please pray....

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Ending Welfare Might Be the Most Loving Thing the Government Could Do
When compassion becomes control, dependency becomes slavery — and freedom begins with responsibility.

When God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Genesis 1:26), He was establishing something radical: every human life has intrinsic worth, purpose, and responsibility. We’re not accidents of evolution — we’re image-bearers of God.

That’s why Christians defend life from conception to natural death. But the Imago Dei doesn’t just speak to abortion or euthanasia. It also speaks to the way we treat human dignity in everyday life — including how we deal with poverty, work, and welfare.


The Cruelty of “Compassion”

For decades, the U.S. government has built an entire industry around dependency. SNAP, EBT, and countless welfare programs were supposed to be safety nets, not hammocks. But when “temporary help” becomes a permanent lifestyle, it robs people of the very thing that makes them human: agency.

Work was never a punishment — it was God’s design. Adam wasn’t lounging in Eden collecting fruit stamps. He was tending a garden, naming animals, exercising dominion. Work is how human beings imitate their Creator.

That’s why Paul said in 2 Thessalonians 3:10, “If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.” Not as a threat, but as a correction. A culture that subsidizes idleness is not compassionate — it’s complicit in spiritual decay.


Mercy Isn’t Maintenance

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Rio Is a War Zone (Again): Brazil’s Gang Wars, U.S. Moves in the Caribbean, and Why It All Connects

 Brazil: When the State Loses the Streets

I’ve worked in Rio with a special operations anti-gang unit (BOPE). I’ve walked the favelas with locals who risk their lives just to get in and out of their own neighborhoods. When the government “takes a hard stance,” it means armored vehicles rolling into some of the most densely packed urban terrain on earth—with families caught in the crossfire.

What you need to know

  • Red Command (Comando Vermelho) began in Brazil’s prisons in the late ’70s with Marxist roots, and evolved into one of the most powerful criminal factions on the planet.

  • They run cocaine and marijuana retail/wholesale, weapons trafficking, carjackings, armored-car robberies, and extortion.

  • They impose “parallel governance”: if you live in their turf, they are the government.

  • The terrain is a nightmare for police: alleyways too tight for vehicles, multi-story concrete warrens, countless blind corners. Even with BOPE, operations are high-risk and civilian casualties mount.

“In Rio’s favelas, the state doesn’t always rule. Whoever controls the corner rules.”

Why Americans should care: Red Command is transnational. A lot of their product goes to Europe, but some flows toward the U.S. via routes that snake Brazil → Venezuela or Brazil → Bolivia → Ecuador → Colombia → north. When state power erodes, cartels fill the vacuum—and the poison travels.

 A Hemisphere Pushing Back

Say what you will, but a tougher U.S. stance on cartels has emboldened several Latin American governments:

  • Ecuador (Jan): Declared internal armed conflict; designated 22 gangs as terrorists; later the U.S. added two to our own lists.

  • Guatemala (Oct 21): Congress passed an anti-gang law, formally branding MS-13 and Barrio 18 as terror organizations with stiffer penalties.

  • Honduras: Reframed parts of narco-trafficking as terrorism in the penal code.

  • Nicaragua: Cracking down—not on cartels—but on churches and religious NGOs. Backwards priorities, and they’re proud of it.

Bottom line: The El Salvador model (mass gang arrests, unapologetic enforcement) is contagious. Some countries are finally acting like cartels are terrorists. Because they are.

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Two Years After Gaza: What’s Next—Lebanon, Venezuela… or Both?

Yesterday marked two years since the invasion of Gaza. A lot of you found my work right after October 7, 2023, when I started doing daily live hits—first for CBN, then YouTube. In that time, Israel has changed the battlefield—and itself.

What’s changed on the ground (as I see it):

  • Hostages: Of the original 251, the bodies of 13 are still in Hamas hands. Israel expects to recover most—but maybe not all—of those remains.

  • Territory: The IDF currently controls over 50% of Gaza (they’d pushed above 80% before resetting to the “yellow line”).

  • Destruction: Roughly 80% of Gaza’s buildings are destroyed—clearing that rubble alone will take years.

  • Hamas losses: ~20,000 militants have “shuffled off this mortal coil,” as the Bard would say.

  • Force experience: 120–180k IDF troops have now cycled through combat—experience Israel didn’t have in 2023.

“Twelve IDF soldiers died to avoid endangering living Israeli hostages. That tells you how Israel values life.”

Israel has carved Gaza into northern/central/southern zones with new security corridors (think “walls” that let them clear-and-hold faster). They’ve also kept aid flowing by sea, land, and air—and yes, it’s messy, costly, and controversial. From a strictly military standpoint, Israel has met many objectives; the strategic cost is global: a generation that’s been taught to see Israelis as the bad guys. That image will take time—and truth—to rebuild.

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