Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
After five decades of failure, a rubber-stamp renewal of UNIFIL is no longer acceptable. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, is up for a renewal of its mandate in the United Nations Security Council this August. The United States should oppose renewal and end a costly 47-year program with a price tag of … Read more
The Islamic Republic of Iran is at an impasse. Its leaders cannot change; the public already has. . . . Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, once quipped that the revolution is not about the price of melons. The mullahs never understood economics. Their attempt to reconcile the requirements of the private economy … Read more
Over the years, I’ve shared a thought experiment with friends from the left and right: If you give a random member of Hamas or Hezbollah a button that can instantly kill every Jew in Israel, would they press it? No one has said no; almost everyone says yes. Even among the left, independent of any … Read more
IDF troops of the 769th Brigade uncovered underground tunnels belonging to the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah while operating in the Saluki area of southern Lebanon, the military said on Friday. Engineering troops examined the subterranean infrastructure before demolishing it. Inside a mosque, troops found a weapons storage facility, along with weapons loaded onto a … Read more
If anything illuminates the insanity and moral bankruptcy of our times, it’s the reaction to Israel’s decision to act against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Laws passed this week by the Israeli Knesset, which will come into force in three months’ time, ban UNRWA from operating in either Israel or Gaza, prohibit … Read more
That there is more to identity politics than just preferred pronouns or demanding more culturally sensitive university courses has been amply demonstrated since the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October 2023. Woke activist groups – including LGBT activists, Black Lives Matter, feminists and eco-zealots – responded to this barbaric event by becoming Hamas cheerleaders. … Read more
How do you commemorate something still unfolding? That question looms large today, on the 365th day since October 7, as we grapple with the brutal reality of a world irrevocably changed. How do we honor the lives lost on that terrible day and in the ensuing war for Israel’s survival, while also committing to build … Read more
In 1974, the writer Jean Genet, an uncontested celebrity of the French Left, whose works extol the beauty of hoodlums, assassins, Black Panthers, the S.S., and Yasser Arafat’s Fedayeen, explained his attachment to the Palestinian cause: “It was completely natural for me to favor not only the most disadvantaged but those who distill hatred for … Read more
In just 10 days we will mark one year since the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel — the deadliest day for the world’s Jews since the Holocaust and the most catastrophic assault on the West since the 9/11 attack that brought down the Twin Towers. Make no mistake, the same evil movement is responsible for … Read more
Let’s not forget who was on the other side of those pagers. This morning, while perambulating the canines, I listened to this segment on NPR’s Morning Edition, where I am an occasional guest. Leila Fadel interviewed an eye surgeon who has been doing gruesome work in the wake of Israel’s “Paging Hezbollah” attack. Here’s the … Read more
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday praised Americans who are putting pressure on US President Joe Biden to limit support for Israel because they are helping the Lebanese terrorist group’s cause. “Today, what many people demonstrating in America are doing … Of course, we should salute them and be grateful to them,” Nasrallah said in … Read more