A collection of 156 posts
No movement that excuses the deliberate slaughter of innocent civilians—even under guise of anti-colonial ‘resistance’—can survive as a mainstream political creed.
The inflammatory Al-Ahli hospital hoax shows that much of the Western media remains compulsively addicted to dangerous and self-defeating war journalism.
A new book examines Israel’s mounting campaign to check Iran.
Today's political and military leaders never imagined that the Hamas was capable of launching a successful invasion of Israel's borderlands.
It is rarely the case that all of the blame for a conflict belongs on one side. But that does not mean blame should be equally divided.
In their rationalizations of violence against Jews and Israelis, they’ve outed themselves as the extremists they are.
Following a litany of failures, Israel must now contemplate a menu of bad options.
In these dire circumstances, deterrence will only be restored with overwhelming force.
Hamas and the origins of the October 7th attacks.
Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir offers a profile of greatness in the face of overwhelming adversity.
A perennially controversial bestseller turns 65.
Herf tells the complicated and often surprising story of the internal political struggles in Western capitals, as well as in the halls of the United Nations, that erupted at the end of the Second World War.
Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Transcript Jonathan Kay: Benny Morris is one of the world's most well-known historians of Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians,
In combat, the IDF was more disciplined, which accounts for its battlefield successes—though these probably also owed a lot to the character and quality of the armies they had faced.
The War of Return is an important book and, unquestionably, a welcome corrective to the plethora of myths, lies, and misconceptions that litter the discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.