The report: Deputy Hamas chief Saleh al-Arouri was killed on Tuesday night in an Israeli drone strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh, a stronghold of the allied Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, signalling the conflict between Hamas and Israel could … Continue reading →
Here’s the brouhaha du jour – when asked by a questioner what the cause of the Civil War was, Nikki Haley inexplicably failed to mention slavery: I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the … Continue reading →
[NOTE: If you’re impatient like me, click on “settings” for each video and increase the speed. They will still be intelligible, and they will go much faster.] The following is one of Caroline Glick’s best, and that’s saying a lot. … Continue reading →
Of course, Iran has been up to no good since the theocracy began. Thanks, Jimmy! But here’s the latest: IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in the report that Iran “in recent weeks had increased its production of highly … Continue reading →
On YouTube there are a series of interviews of survivors of 10/7, done by the USC Shoah Foundation. The interviews are long, and I’ve only watched a few. But – unlike Holocaust survivor interviews, which I’ve also watched – these … Continue reading →
First, the interview: Now, the definition, which I found here but which appeared in this piece by Weiss and refers to the leftist philosophy that dominates universities and beyond and is especially rife among the young adults indoctrinated in it: … Continue reading →
It didn’t work: Israeli soldiers foiled “an elaborate Hamas ambush” that used dolls and children’s backpacks rigged with speakers playing sounds of crying to lure them into a terrorist tunnel in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said Friday. … Continue reading →
It’s a strange combination. Aside from the US, we have Austria and Lithuania, two countries extremely cognizant of the Holocaust; Czechia; two Latin American countries, Guatemala and Paraguay; Liberia; and three Micronesian republics. That’s it. Twenty-three other countries abstained, but … Continue reading →
Or are we seeing some form of taqiyya? The man being interrogated in the following video is named Yousef al-Mansi, and he is a former minister in the Hamas government in Gaza. How did he fall into Israeli hands? Was … Continue reading →
In other war news, a hostage rescue attempt has failed, Israel reports: Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were seriously wounded in a failed attempt to rescue hostages held by the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip overnight, the army … Continue reading →
Here Douglas Murray interviews Israel’s President Isaac Herzog. The latter doesn’t pull his punches for the most part, which is interesting because Herzog is a man of the Israeli left. This shows you how leftists in Israel have come to … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a revised and expanded edition of a post first published in 2006.] Eighty-two years ago today Pearl Harbor was attacked. That’s long enough ago that only a vanishing few remember the day and its aftermath with any … Continue reading →