Good reporting depends on the bravery of good journalists who are willing to venture into unsafe places in order to get real and real-time information. War zones have always been a dangerous place for journalists, but the battle between the Israeli government and Hamas has been a particularly ...
Former President Barack Obama has shamefully come down on the side of moral equivalence in the Middle East. He should know better. In an interview released Nov. 4, Obama implied that Israel and Hamas are both to blame for the ongoing fighting. “Nobody’s hands are clean,” he said, ...
by Daniel DePetris Last August, more than two months after Ukraine began its counteroffensive against Russian positions in the east, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan was asked about whether the war was degenerating into a stalemate. Sullivan’s answer: no. “We do not ...
by Daniel Bral War and conflict are almost invariably zero-sum games. What makes war so unforgiving, even oddly unifying, is that there is a shared experience of irreparable pain, loss, trauma and destruction. Even the victor emerges a loser. The cruelty of war is that those ...
by Doyle McManus Fiona Hill is worried. The onetime Russia adviser to then-President Donald Trump fears that support for Ukraine is gradually eroding, encouraging Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to wait the West out. But she’s worried about much more than that, ...
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 ...