Commenter “Art Deco” observes: I don’t think Hamas ever had what you’d call a ‘strategy’, unless there were co-ordinate campaigns planned which Iran and Hezbollah never implemented. It’s what Martin Peretz described 40 years ago in a review of a … Continue reading →
I can’t find definitive word on this, but I thought I’d mention it anyway: I don’t believe that any hostage who was a member of the military at the time he or she was taken on October 7 has been … Continue reading →
It’s an unanswerable question. I ask it now because of this report: On Monday, however, Israel’s Channel 12 news reported that Hamas was trying to negotiate the release of fewer hostages on the grounds it had “no ability to release … Continue reading →
It’s all just propaganda anyway. Votes like this in the UN have no teeth and are just ways to show Israel how little support it has and how much support Hamas has in the international community known as the UN: … Continue reading →
When the post-October 7 Israeli operation in Gaza began, the IDF gave the Gazans a lot of warning. This was primarily to allow Gazan civilians to evacuate. But it also had the effect of warning the Hamas terrorists and allowing … Continue reading →
First, we have this from a recent poll of Palestinians: More than five months after Hamas-led savage marauders slaughtered more than 1200 Israeli men, women and children, support for the October 7 massacre is at an all-time high among Palestinians … Continue reading →
The IDF continues to conduct operations at al Shifa Hospital: The IDF said that hundreds of terror suspects had so far been questioned at the hospital complex by field interrogators of the Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 and the Shin … Continue reading →
A career Israeli military man of 51, Major Uri Moyal, has died of wounds sustained in a terrorist stabbing in Israel. I don’t usually watch videos of killings, but I watched this one, which occurred in a coffee shop. I … Continue reading →
October 7 was such a terrible blow for Israelis that it’s easy to forget how many nationals of other countries who lived there were victims and/or heroes, too. Here is a video about Filipinos in Israel, most of whom were … Continue reading →
I know it’s long. But once again, you don’t need to watch the whole thing to get the gist of it. Ayaan Hirsi Ali knows whereof she speaks; she’s looked at the problem from both sides now:
Continue reading →At least, not for now. There is tremendous motivation for terrorists to take hostages, especially Israeli hostages. Israel has a history of agreeing to extremely lopsided deals with Palestinian authorities in order to get its people back. The most extreme … Continue reading →
Jillian Becker writes of a phenomenon she calls Leidensneid. It’s a word she made up, one of those composite German terms that combine two other words, in this case “leiden” (to suffer) and “Neid” (envy). Leidensneid is a part of … Continue reading →