This is not, and never has been, a counterinsurgency or counterterrorism operation—It is a conventional urban war against an irregular but fully formed terror army, with their own underground citadel. Yet many Western analysts are incapable of seeing the conflict through anything but the lens of post-9/11 operations. The refrain, echoing official...
Geert Wilders: "I have a message for all those Muslims in the Netherlands who do not respect our freedom, our democracy and our core values."
And why are Arab leaders willing to be part of a coalition with Israel? As surprising as it may sound, many see Iran as a bigger problem than Israel, even if they don't say so publicly. The network of extremist groups that Iran funds and arms destabilizes the region. The Houthis have attacked Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. in recent...
The House of Saud does not want a major conflagration, and it knows that it's one of the targets of an Iranian slaughter. That's because the ferocity with which Shia and Sunni Muslims hate each other is almost equal to their joint hatred for the Jews. It's very likely that the Wahhabi clerics understand this point—something that the tea leaves...
There are many misunderstandings about Israel in the international media, but one of the most bewildering is the suggestion that if it weren't for the presence of Benjamin Netanyahu the war would end. It is one of those mistakes that at best mixes up hope with analysis, and at worst displays a dumbfounding ignorance. It doesn't matter if they're...
The death in custody of Walid Daqqa, a sixty-two-year-old Palestinian writer who was the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails after thirty-eight years of imprisonment, is a cruel reminder of Israel's disregard for Palestinians' right to life.
A Hamas gunman apparently stepped onto the running board of one of the WCK vehicles, then fired in the air, and quickly jumped off. This single shot in the war is used by Hamas as a signal to start an operation. That gunmen was detected by the IDF, that then tried to call WCK. WCK tried to reach the aid...
"To all those students, I say that it's very disappointing to see Americans supporting Hamas and thinking that Hamas is a cool thing, while Hamas does not respect any of those followers. While those followers don't know that Hamas would torture them and massacre them with no mercy. They [Hamas] call them [American supporters] useful idiots. They...
There is only one genuine problem in the Land of Israel. The vast majority of Arabs want to kill Jews. There is not a genuine land dispute. There is a religious dispute. As things stand now, only when one side understands that they have no chance to kill the other and they lay down their arms out of defeat, will...
I suppose it was inevitable. Surround a small country with homicidal maniacs who rape, murder, and kidnap her citizens and swear this is part of their religion and it's just the beginning. Force its tiny citizen army to place their lives on the line, and then find out your so-called friends and allies are totally focused on making sure the...
