Why Do the Media Keep Encouraging Hamas Violence?
Calling this the “dead baby strategy” may seem cruel, because it is cruel. But don’t blame the messenger for accurately describing this tactic.
Hamas’ Theater of the Absurd: ‘Cannibals in Gaza’
A few weeks ago, I turned on my computer and saw the most outrageous video of the year. The ‘brave’ teenage and twenty-something Palestinian ‘revolutionaries’ in Gaza, ‘resisting the occupation’ by the border fence, throwing rocks at the IDF, then retreating behind what looks to be a boy of 4-5 years old.
Demographic Bogeyman
There’s a bogeyman out there: the impending inundation of Arabs into Israel. “Dateline Jerusalem: A demographic study released Tuesday predicts that in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Arabs will outnumber Jews by the year 2020.”
The Palestinians’ Self-Made Nakba
Palestine’s Arabs went through an expulsion, just like tens of millions around the world, including Jews. But the Palestinians are the only ones who adopted an ethos of rejectionism, self-victimization, suffering and death. For 70 years now, the Nakba isn’t just a memory. It’s the ethos, the identity, the lifetime achievement.
Pity the Poor Gazans
The mass media is doing its best to tell everyone that Gaza is just about the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the world, due – of course – to Israel making it an “open air prison.”
Israel’s Sucker’s Game on the Gaza Border
There was a depressing familiarity both to Hamas’s suicide protest operation along Gaza’s border with Israel this week and to Israel’s response to it.
He Has No Merritt
The glorious opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem is one of those eye-popping moments that come along only rarely.
Shavuot: The Torah is No Longer in Heaven
One of human being’s strongest longings today is the need for authenticity. We want to be ourselves or to become ourselves. We admire children’s spontaneity because they do not yet know how they “ought to be.” They are still impulsive and natural.
New Israel Fund Calls on UN to Investigate Israel
The NIF’s actions vis a vis the recent riots at the Gaza fence prove it is hostile to the State of Israel so that anyone who donates to that organization is damaging the Jewish State.
Snap Back Now
It’s done. President Donald Trump announced (5/8/18) that the US is withdrawing from the JCPOA (aka Iran deal) and that drastic sanctions on Iran will be reimposed.