Hamas Knows It Is Losing
Is Hamas on the ropes? The terrorist group certainly seems to think so. That’s one takeaway from the tragic news that Hamas terrorists infiltrated the Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz, fired an anti-tank...
View ArticleIDF Fatalities Destroy Last Remaining Justification for Gaza Pullout
Has anyone noticed that the last remaining justification for Israel’s unilateral pullout from the Gaza Strip has just disappeared? Proponents’ claims that the pullout would bring peace, security, and...
View ArticleUNRWA’s Terrorist Connections
Yesterday three young Israeli soldiers, all in their early twenties, were killed by an explosion in one of Hamas’s many booby-trapped tunnels. This is just one example of the terrible price Israelis...
View ArticleIs the Media’s Patience with Hamas Running Out?
Watching the media in the wake of Hamas’s deadly attack and capture of an Israeli soldier, one gets the impression that the press is taking Hamas’s violation of the cease-fire personally. On CNN this...
View ArticleBibi and Barack After Gaza
As Operation Protective Edge wound down in Gaza, talk in the media turned to the U.S.-Israel relationship. It has been an unusually tense few months for Washington and Jerusalem. What’s puzzling is not...
View ArticleIsrael Does Not Exist to Make Liberal Jews Feel Good
In one of the most important pieces written during the course of this conflict, Shmuel Rosner has taken to the website of the New York Times, where he is a contributing opinion writer, with a...
View ArticleThe Gaza War Has Changed the Way the World Talks About Hamas
Amid all the metrics commentators propose to determine “who won” Operation Protective Edge, one is staring everyone in the face: the international community’s attitude toward a postwar (if and when the...
View ArticleThe Truth About Palestinian Casualties
Even after Hamas brazenly flouted the latest attempts to end the fighting in Gaza, demonstrators marched around the globe to protest what they and the Palestinians claim are Israeli war crimes. The...
View ArticleDid Hamas Win? Not Exactly.
In today’s New York Times, Yediot Aharonot military analyst Ronen Bergman has some sobering conclusions about the fighting in Gaza. While he agrees that in an objective sense, Hamas was defeated on the...
View ArticleThe UN Human Rights Farce Gets Worse
Over the past few decades, the bias against Israel at the United Nations has reached the level of caricature. The disproportionate interest in anything that the Jewish state does matched with the world...
View ArticleHow the West Helps Suppress Gaza Dissent
With the fighting in Gaza seemingly winding down, stories are starting to trickle out about Gaza residents’ unhappiness with Hamas for starting a new war every few years. The Associated Press devoted...
View ArticleWhat Happened to the Press in Gaza?
Yesterday, the spokeswoman for the Hamas government in Gaza let the shoe drop. Isra al-Mudallal told a Lebanese television station that the Islamist group routinely intimidated foreign journalists in...
View ArticleIsrael’s Record on Civilian Casualties Compares Well to America’s
Writing in the Washington Post last Friday, Natan Sharansky argued that Western nations are quite right to hold Israel to a higher standard than its nondemocratic neighbors; the problem is that they...
View ArticleVictory Isn’t a Dirty Word
One of the points of discord between the Israeli military establishment (plus much of its political establishment) and the West is the concept of victory. President Obama has long been criticized for...
View ArticleBias, Blood Libels, and the Media’s Race to the Bottom
If you are looking for a single headline that best sums up the state of American reporting on Israel, the Algemeiner has provided a good candidate: “TIME Magazine Retracts IDF Organ Theft Claim...
View ArticleIsrael’s Long War Requires Patience
Israelis are still smarting from the less than satisfactory outcome of this summer’s fighting between Israel and Hamas that left the terror group still ruling Gaza and capable of firing rockets on the...
View ArticleDaily Beast Flogs Gaza Atrocity Story Even Human Rights Groups Won’t Touch
If there is anything we have learned in the past few decades is that there is a thriving international journalism market for any story that can besmirch Israel’s image. Given the appetite of the...
View ArticleIsrael’s Predetermined Guilt and the Irrelevant Left
If you’ve been around Israeli politics long enough, you pick up on the one thing that bothers leftist “human-rights” groups more than anything: their irrelevance. At times, their frustration boils over...
View ArticleDempsey Debunks U.S. Attacks on Israel
Over the course of this past summer’s war between Hamas and Israel, the Jewish state was subjected to bitter criticism from both the U.S. State Department and the White House. The Obama administration...
View ArticleIgnore the UN Human Rights Farce
There will be those who will argue that Israel is once again shooting itself in the foot by announcing that it will not cooperate with the investigation being conducted into this past summer’s war with...
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