Israel, Gaza and the Pacific war in World War II
When the Japanese Imperial Air Force attacked the United States’ Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, they knew that Japan could not invade the United States and conquer it. What...
View ArticleInternational law for thee but not for me
Why has the Court's call for the immediate and unconditional release of Israeli hostages gotten lost in the public discourse?
View ArticleIsrael Burns, Greta Cheers
Massive Hezbollah bombing of Israel’s north caused large forest fires to erupt, causing substantial damage. By early this week, the fires had consumed nearly 10,000 dunams (about 2,500 acres), with...
View ArticleThe IDF Becomes the ICJ’s Chief Enforcer
On Shabbat morning, June 8, 2024, the Israel Defense Forces became the enforcement arm of the International Court of Justice. Five months after ruling in Paragraph 85 of its opinion in the original...
View ArticleWould Harriet Tubman Have Led the Israeli Hostage Rescue Mission?
During the years immediately preceding the start of the American Civil War in 1861, Harriet Tubman, the most famous leader of raids to free Black slaves, herself escaped from bondage in the South to...
View ArticleThanks to Israel and Ukraine, America Ascendant
The past few weeks have been very difficult for Russia’s Vladimir Putin. For the first time since World War II, Russia is being invaded by a foreign army. This also marks the first time that a...
View ArticleCan the Arab World Survive Until 2079?
In 1979, two events took place which shook the Middle East to its core and still reverberate today. The first of course was the Iranian revolution. This swept out the authoritarian, often brutal...
View ArticleIsrael Becomes the Leader of the Free World
In the days before Yahiya Sinwar was killed by the IDF on October 17, curious voices were appearing in the West belying the narrative that Israel had become a pariah state. To rousing applause in the...
View ArticleAmericans Remember Who and What We Are
In the weeks since the American people rejected the ruling Democrats and voted back into power Donald Trump, all parts of the Democratic Party have been pointing fingers, blaming each other for the...
View ArticleWorld Rues the Day It Lost the Concept of Genocide
It only took four days after the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire for the Middle East to rear its ugly head again. In a lightning raid that surprised almost everybody, Syrian rebels overran much of the...
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