How do you fight a group that is perfectly willing—nay, eager—to try to get you to kill its children even if you don’t want to? That’s the situation Israel faces in Hamas. It’s the situation we face against Islamist terrorists, … Continue reading →
There’s a long, long article in TNR that purports to be “The Explosive, Inside Story of How John Kerry Built an Israel-Palestine Peace Plan””and Watched It Crumble.” It’s worth reading, but maybe not for the reasons the author intended it … Continue reading →
Charles Krauthammer reminds us of a few facts that journalists seem to have conveniently forgotten, if they ever knew them in the first place: “Here’s the difference between us,” explains the Israeli prime minister. “We’re using missile defense to protect … Continue reading →
I hadn’t written about this story yet because I kept waiting for less rumor and more official facts. There seem to be a few more available lately, although they come from an unnamed “official” rather being on-the-record announcements. The facts … Continue reading →
When the news of the killing of the three Israeli teenagers came out, I was very puzzled as to why their abductors would have killed them right away. It made no sense at all. I had figured they would be … Continue reading →
The finding of the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers is very sad but not unexpected news: The Times reports that senior government officials in Israel said military searchers found the three bodies buried “in a field near Hebron,” … Continue reading →
I’m in agreement with Andrew McCarthy on this: In what he foolishly thought was a safe place to let his hair down, Kerry merely gave voice to what the Obama administration thinks. “Apartheid” trips easily off his tongue because it … Continue reading →
…has made the following statements: If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday… Kerry also … Continue reading →
Surprise, surprise: The Middle East peace talks verged on a breakdown Tuesday night, after President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority defied the United States and Israel by taking concrete steps to join 15 international agencies ”” a move to … Continue reading →
It makes sense for Israel to be cautious: With no trace of Beijing-bound flight MH370 after nine days, one of several theories that has emerged is that the plane was hijacked to Iran, where it could be turned into a … Continue reading →
Or is this even true? Is it actually one of those “good-cop/bad-cop” tales instead? I don’t know, but I vote for “true.” I think very little of John Kerry, but I think more of him than I do of Obama. … Continue reading →
…takes a hard line on Israel. See also this: The timing could not have been any more deliberate ”” an assault on the prime minister’s policies delivered precisely as Netanyahu was flying in to meet with him, and on the … Continue reading →