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 →
Remember what Osama bin Laden said: “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.” That is especially true in the Middle East. The Biden administration has been perceived as a … Continue reading →
I can only guess at an answer to that question, but I think it’s not just as simple as “Hamas broke the agreement and Israel got fed up.” Those things are true, but I’ve noticed a few more that might … Continue reading →
I wrote a post about the topic yesterday. That post described a situation that was bad enough and shocking enough in terms of the Israeli failure to heed detailed and fact-based warnings of the imminence of a large-scale Hamas attack, … Continue reading →
Victor Davis Hanson wonders: Why then would millions ally themselves with this odious reincarnation of the SS? Are they ignorant of the history of the Middle East? Are they arrogant since few challenge their hate and threats? Are they opportunists … Continue reading →
We already know that one reason for Israel’s intelligence failure on October 7th was its over-reliance on technological intelligence and its abandonment of old-fashioned human intelligence. Another reason was that for at least two years, Hamas successfully pretended to be … Continue reading →
What can you say about Henry Kissinger? A ton. I won’t attempt to do that. Most readers here probably know quite a bit about the policies he advocated and implemented: detente, Realpolitik, rapprochement with China. He was a titanic figure … Continue reading →