Analysis
Monday, August 18th 2014
As is the historical pattern concerning Israel, last week began the growing tsunami of groups – representing the United Nations, The Hague, the European Union, human rights groups, and other non-governmental organizations – announcing their intention to “investigate and review” the military actions under taken by Israel and Hamas during the past five weeks to […]
Tuesday, August 12th 2014 / Tuesday, September 9th 2014
The plethora of articles which are written on the Middle East conflict is disproportionate relative to all other conflicts all over the world. The Economist noted that there were more journalists dispatched to Israel than all of Asia and Africa combined. This anomaly on its own merits an analysis, however, the purpose here is to […]
Monday, August 11th 2014 / Monday, August 11th 2014
In the Hobbessian – "the war of all against all" – inferno called Gaza, ISIS is alive and well. Over the past decade, it has become clear that Hamas is not the only terrorist organization operating in the Gaza Strip, which has become a base for dozens of jihadi groups, some linked to Al-Qaeda and […]
Monday, August 11th 2014 / Tuesday, August 19th 2014
For me, the utmost revelatory moment of the Gaza war – as I write, in shaky recess on account of another doubtful ceasefire — came during the interview that Osama Hamdan, the official press spokesman for Hamas, gave to Lebanon’s Al-Quds television July 28 and that was picked up by CNN on August 4, just […]
Friday, August 8th 2014 / Friday, August 8th 2014
As the rockets again begin to fall on Israel after what looks like yet another Hamas-violated case-fire, the words of the great Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, come to mind. In his classic On War (1838), he said that the goal of war is “compulsory submission of the enemy to our will”, resulting in […]
Thursday, August 7th 2014 / Friday, June 12th 2015
On July 13, five days after Israel had launched Operation Protective Edge to shield its citizens from hundreds of missile strikes launched from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, Jodi Rudoren of the New York Times wrote the following lead summing up the war to that point: JERUSALEM — So much here seems […]
Tuesday, August 5th 2014
I accuse all those who exploit Israel's legitimate war of self defense against a murderous theocracy of creating an ecosystem of anti-Semitism not seen since the days of the Third Reich. I accuse all western leaders who blame the resurgence of anti Semitism in their countries on Israel's defensive war of displaying appalling judgment […]
Tuesday, August 5th 2014 / Tuesday, August 5th 2014
After an absence of 90 years, the ancient institution of the caliphate roared back into existence on the first day of Ramadan in the year 1435 of the Hegira, equivalent to June 29, 2014. This astonishing revival symbolically culminates the Islamist surge that began forty years ago. A Western analogy might be declaring the restoration […]
Monday, August 4th 2014
Much is being written and spoken about in the international media and by leaders in the international community regarding the recent violence between the Hamas terror entity in the Gaza Strip and Israel, especially given the graphic pictures displayed by the various media sources. But there are pertinent legal points that do not always figure […]
Friday, August 1st 2014 / Tuesday, August 5th 2014
As Operation Protective Edge enters its third week, we have now seen four incidents in the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas that have focused attention on UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency), the internationally funded welfare organization for Palestinian "refugees." The most recent saw three IDF soldiers killed in an […]
Friday, July 25th 2014
A soldier on the border writes: What's happening here in the staging area [area where soldiers prepare to enter Gaza] is beyond comprehension, not rationally, not emotionally and begs the imagination. Almost every hour a car shows up overflowing with food, snacks, cold drinks, socks, underwear, undershirts, hygiene supplies, wipes, cigarettes, backgammon and more. They're coming from […]
Thursday, July 24th 2014
The Palestinian refugee issue has been around since 1948. UNRWA, the United Nations institution dedicated to their preservation, has been in existence since 1950. With the recent re-approval of UNRWA's mandate for more than three years, it is worth asking: how long have Western policy makers understood that UNRWA was a tool for Palestinians and […]
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