For many years Richard Landes has done a great deal of thinking and writing on how news propaganda has influenced the Palestinian/Israel conflict. I’ve written about Landes’ work many times before (disclosure: he’s also a friend of mine). Here’s a … Continue reading →
Parliamentary systems mean that sometimes coalition governments can form that are composed of various parties that didn’t get all that much popular support. As long as the most popular party fails to get a majority or create a majority coalition, … Continue reading →
The political stance of a country can change very quickly these days, and elections have consequences. But Israeli elections are especially confusing, and I really don’t have a good idea what’s going on in that country at the moment despite … Continue reading →
Creative lies such as these: The New York Times posted the photo of a child who allegedly died in Gaza in 2021, in fighting between Israel and Hamas, which rules Gaza and fired thousands of rockets into Israel. But it … Continue reading →
An old blog post written by Google’s head of diversity, Kamau Bobb, has been spotlighted. It was written by Bobb when he was a research associate in technology at Georgia Tech, and appeared on his blog as part of a … Continue reading →
…to his real bosses, the Palestinians: The head of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency in Gaza apologized on Tuesday for comments he made to Israeli TV in which he said that IDF strikes on the Strip appeared to be … Continue reading →
From Glick’s recent article: …[I]n the minds of the Iranian leadership and those of their Hamas proxies, the Abraham Accords represent the single greatest military and political threat to Iran’s nuclear and hegemonic ambitions. Destroying them is their strategic goal. … Continue reading →
Well, of course. See this. And this: Israel’s fight against Hamas has again reached American shores. While cities all over Europe continue to report alarming spikes in physical attacks against Jews —citizen broadcasts via the Twitterverse show the same sort … Continue reading →
From Victor Davis Hanson: Yet between 2017 and 2021 there was relatively little violence in Israel and on the West Bank. Whatever our ideologies and politics, we all know the one reason why there is chaos now and not then. … Continue reading →
Is anyone surprised by this increase in violence against Israel? I think that Israel’s enemies were both overjoyed and emboldened by Biden’s election. Why wouldn’t they be? ADDENDUM: Caroline Glick gives the details, including the Biden administration’s role.
Continue reading →Unfortunately, there is nothing surprising about this, to anyone who’s followed John Kerry’s illustrious career from the days when he met with the North Vietnamese in 1970 in Paris. Here’s today’s story: The New York Times is taking criticism for … Continue reading →
Israel keeps having elections, but they keep having more or less the same result. That includes the latest one: We still don’t have the final results of Tuesday’s election. It may take till Friday or even next week until the … Continue reading →