It’s the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, and the Palestinians are celebrating their favorite way: attacking Israel and Israelis in a huge terror operation. You can find news here, here, here, here, here, and here. From the latter: … Continue reading →
Wow: Unfortunately, there can surely be no compromise with the organizers of the anti-reform protests, because for them the real issue was never the reform itself. As was stated explicitly from the start by former Prime Minister Yair Lapid and … Continue reading →
As part of yesterday’s roundup, I linked to this lengthy piece on Robert Malley, negotiator with Iran for Obama and then Biden. Afterwards, I noticed the name of the author of the Malley article: Hussein Aboubakr Mansour. I became curious … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: Steven Hayward at Powerline.] Get a load of this BBC “reporter,” whose name is Anjana Gadgil: First she fences with words, calling armed terrorists between 16 and 18 “children” and implying that gives them some sort of dispensation … Continue reading →
Please read this article by Caroline Glick about recent developments in the Netanyahu trial. Whether or not you’re especially interested in Israel or in Netanyahu himself, you will probably be impressed by the similarities to the actions of Donald Trump’s … Continue reading →
It’s something like our Memorial Day, and it’s today. In her article, Phillips quotes at length from a recent interview with Itamar Marcus, head of Palestinian Media Watch. It’s well worth reading the whole thing, but here’s an interesting excerpt … Continue reading →
Israel and the US are very different, but there are parallels in their domestic situations at present. In Caroline Glick’s recent article on a speech Netanyahu made to Israel’s generals, I noticed some of these similarities, such as the fact … Continue reading →
Melanie Phillips writes: The focus of opposition [and riots] is [Netanyahu’s] proposed judicial reforms. The protests are also fueled, however, by fear of the nationalist and religious ultras in the governing coalition and by hatred of Netanyahu, who for some … Continue reading →
It’s not quite the same as our left’s war against Trump, but it has harmonic vibrations. The left in Israel has a more powerful court system to do its bidding. In the following excerpt from an article by Caroline Glick, … Continue reading →
Here’s an article that discusses what might be ahead for Netanyahu. One interesting thing about the recent Israeli election is that the polls were wrong: Some pre-election polls had Netanyahu’s Likud and its allied parties polling highly enough to secure … Continue reading →
Most of the votes in the Israeli election have been counted, and it’s looking good for Netanyahu: looked set to return to power on Wednesday after an unprecedented fifth general election in less than four years on Tuesday gave his … Continue reading →
Young people probably have no idea about that happened back then. But those of us who are older certainly remember. It was stunningly shocking at the time, and even worse because it occurred in Germany at what was supposed to … Continue reading →