by Itamar Karbi Tel Aviv — Last Saturday, I woke up at 7:30 a.m. to the sound of sirens. My wife and I quickly went down the staircase of our building and waited to hear distant explosions, which would mean that Israel’s defense system was functioning. When we went back to our ...
by Phyllis Bennis The violence in Gaza and Israel is bringing horrifying new levels of human suffering to Israelis and Palestinians. Both sides have committed heinous violations of international law, and all attacks on civilians must be condemned. But if we’re serious about ...
On Sept. 22, 2005, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. It did not take someone with the power of an Old Testament prophet to predict what would come next. Hamas almost immediately filled the vacuum and began planning a series of terrorist attacks on civilian ...
CHARLESTON — A West Virginia rabbi says he is devastated over attacks on Israel that resulted in more than 1,000 deaths, including hundreds of civilians. Militants say they are holding more than 130 soldiers and citizens captive. “The Jewish people are in mourning. People of Israel ...
Saturday’s Hamas terror onslaught from its stronghold in Gaza into Israel, murdering hundreds, was a sneak attack, just like the sneak attacks by Egypt and Syria on Israel on Yom Kippur 50 years ago, 9/11 and Pearl Harbor and Hitler’s surprise invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The ...
If one is mixing chemicals, getting the formula wrong can produce disastrous results. It is the same with international diplomacy. For decades the left was wrong about the Soviet Union and China, believing that what the U.S. did or did not do would have a positive influence on communist ...