(Worthy Insights) – Israeli decision-makers plan to resume the Gaza war in four to six weeks with overwhelming force, sending in tens of thousands of troops to conquer the entire strip in a single coordinated offensive against Hamas.

Incoming military chief of staff Eyal Zamir has, at the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defense minister Israel Katz, started developing the plan, according to several current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of high-level discussions. Under the plan, Israel will deploy more troops to Gaza than it has to this point in the war—over 50,000—before relocating Gaza’s civilian population to humanitarian zones and waging a ruthless ground campaign against Palestinian terrorists across the rest of the strip.

“We’re going to see four to five divisions simultaneously attack in the north, in the center, and in the south, to occupy every area and clear out the enemy,” said Hezi Nehama, a former Israeli colonel who co-authored the Generals’ Plan, an influential proposal for a staged siege of Gaza. “It will look different than what we saw in the war until now.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Employees at the Central Intelligence Agency mocked the death of the late televangelist Pat Robertson, according to internal chat logs leaked to journalist Christopher Rufo.

“It was so smoky yesterday because the gates of hell opened up to let him in,” wrote one employee, whose name was redacted on the undated chat log from a National Security Agency messaging server, though Robertson died June 8, 2023.

The leaked CIA chat about Robertson was part of a larger exposé from Rufo, who has published internal correspondence between U.S. intelligence agencies’ employees stored on NSA servers this week. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – In a groundbreaking feat, photographer Josh Dury, 27, also known as the “Starman”, is believed to have captured the first-ever image of all seven planets, plus Earth, in a single frame.

This rare opportunity arose due to a rare celestial event known as the “great planetary parade”, which occurs when all eight planets align – a phenomenon that hasn’t happened since 1982. Mr Dury, an award-winning astronomical photographer, snapped the panoramic photo from Somerset’s Mendip Hills on February 22, potentially making history with this extraordinary image.

(Worthy Insights) – A new poll shows that the level of trust Americans have in mainstream media outlets to fairly and accurately report the news has dropped to the lowest level in more than 50 years since Gallup began tracking media trust in the United States.

In the latest Gallup survey, just under 1 in 3 Americans said they trust the mainstream news media “a great deal” or “a fair amount,” while more than one-third say they don’t trust the media “at all.”

Gallup’s initial survey of Americans’ trust in the media, conducted in the 1970s, showed that almost 70% of Americans at the time had a great deal or a fair amount of trust in the news media. Those numbers have steadily declined in the decades since despite some spots of improvement, the most recent being in 2017 and 2018. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Clinical trials for a new COVID-19 vaccine were halted after a multi-million contract authorized by the Biden administration to develop the inoculation was paused by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy implemented a 90-day stop-work order on Feb. 21 regarding the HHS contract with Vaxart Inc., according to the announcement, which was first reported by Fox News Digital on Feb. 25.

Vaxart, an American biotech company, is creating a new COVID-19 inoculation for oral use. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The Trump administration is arresting illegal migrants at a break-neck pace, far outpacing the rate at which the Biden White House nabbed those living unlawfully in the country.

Federal immigration authorities have arrested more than 20,000 illegal migrants in President Donald Trump’s first month back into office, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed Wednesday The number marks a 627% increase in monthly arrests in comparison to the roughly 33,000 at-large arrests made during President Joe Biden’s last year in the White House.

“President Trump and this Administration are saving lives every day because of the actions we are taking to secure the border and deport illegal alien criminals,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a press release. “Hundreds of thousands of criminals were let into this country illegally.” [ Source: (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – An overwhelming majority of Americans support Israel’s right to defend itself, according to a poll released Thursday.

The poll, conducted by the Israel on Campus Coalition in partnership with Schoen Cooperman Research, reveals a resounding endorsement of Israel’s position among Americans. Of the 1,000 U.S. adults surveyed, 81 percent affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself—an 11 percent increase compared to a poll the two groups conducted last month.

Thursday’s survey also identified an even sharper increase: 82 percent of Americans believe a final ceasefire agreement in the Gaza conflict should remove Hamas from power, up from 57 percent last month. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Library goers hit now-famously conservative Southern California enclave Huntington Beach with a lawsuit on Thursday over new rules that restrict minors’ access to public library books deemed “sexually explicit.”

A transgender advocacy nonprofit, Alianza Translatinx, along with two unnamed Huntington Beach teenagers and one named adult, Erin Spivey, a longtime librarian filed the suit in Orange County Superior Court.

“Libraries should reflect, not erase, and be spaces where young people can discover who they are,” said Alianza Translatinx CEO Khloe Rios-Wyatt in a written statement. “Huntington Beach officials, driven by fear of challenging ideas, are trying to erase stories and identities — but we refuse to be erased.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner opened President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting of his second term on Wednesday at the White House with an inspiring Christian prayer.

In the room were his appointed Cabinet secretaries, 18 of whom have been confirmed by the Senate so far.

Trump asked Turner to open the meeting in prayer as the official stood next to him in the West Wing’s Cabinet room. [ Source (Read More…) ]

.@SecretaryTurner leads President Trump's cabinet in prayer as they open their first meeting of Trump 47 🙏 pic.twitter.com/I9hNH5EBAW

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 26, 2025

(Worthy Insights) – The United States imposed a fresh round of sanctions on Monday targeting Iran’s oil industry. The Treasury Department announced that more than 30 brokers, tanker operators, and shipping companies have been hit for their roles in selling and transporting Iranian petroleum. The move is part of President Donald Trump’s renewed “maximum pressure” campaign aimed at reducing Iranian crude exports to zero, a policy intended to cut off funding for Iran’s nuclear and missile programs.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated, “Iran continues to rely on a shadowy network of vessels, shippers, and brokers to facilitate its oil sales and fund its destabilizing activities.” He warned that anyone involved in Iranian oil would face significant sanctions risk as the United States uses all available tools to disrupt Iran’s oil supply chain. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week as discussions continue about efforts to end the ongoing war in Ukraine. Tensions remain high between the U.S. and Ukraine following comments from President Trump, who recently blamed Ukraine for Russia’s invasion and referred to President Zelenskyy as a “dictator.”

But both Trump and Zelenskyy now say there’s progress on a deal for Ukraine to repay U.S. aid with revenue from its natural resources.

Despite the turmoil, Ukraine’s Church continues to stand strong, offering a beacon of hope amid Russia’s attempts to silence it. In a recent visit to the U.S., the leader of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav, spoke with CBN News about the resilience of the Ukrainian people and their faith during times of persecution. [ Source (Read More…) ]