The coverage from CNN: The men in the wedding hall at the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank spend most of their days and nights glued to their phones, smoking, constantly refreshing their news feeds. They look exhausted, the … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I just published a post on Richard Landes’ work on the lies of Palestinian propaganda and how they are propagated by the Western press. One of the phrases he uses – and one I believe he coined – is … Continue reading →
I’ve written many times about Richard Landes. He is a friend I met through blogging, but he also happens to be one of the greatest experts – perhaps the greatest expert – on the long history of successful Palestinian propaganda … Continue reading →
One of Israel’s great strengths is how much it values human life. But it leads to one of its great weaknesses, at least in the tactical sense: hostage/prisoner exchanges. It’s not the only method Israel has used to bring hostages … Continue reading →
Whenever there’s a mass shooting in the US, the gun control advocates spring into action and ask for more and stricter gun control. It’s never been clear to me why anyone would buy their arguments, because murderous psychopaths rarely – … Continue reading →
… (a popular descriptive phrase on the left, uttered without any indication of what it might mean or why Gazans might be blocked by other Muslim countries such as Egypt), Hamas members are presently the wardens and guards. And Egypt … Continue reading →
A good summary, worth listening to:
Continue reading →See this comment by “sdferr,” which links to this Daily Mail article. Warning: graphic horrific content. The description made me think of the Manson slayings that horrified America back in 1969. Many of us are old enough to remember. But … Continue reading →
That’s a headline I never thought I’d be writing. But when the news that Hamas had beheaded Israeli babies first came out, many many people tried to claim it was untrue. Apparently it has now been verified by many reporters … Continue reading →
The Israeli response to the Hamas attack wasn’t just an intelligence failure in terms of acting on information, although it certainly was that. But I think that, more importantly, it was a failure to think outside the box and even … Continue reading →
I’ve been covering the Hamas massacre since it happened, and it touches on something very deep that goes back to childhood terrors. When I see or hear the suffering it is sickening. I wish it were fiction, but it’s not. … Continue reading →
It has been described variously as Israel’s Pearl Harbor and 9/11, or both combined. And that is at least somewhat the case. The Hamas massacre was Pearl Harbor in the sense of a huge wakeup call that was not anticipated … Continue reading →