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Jed Babbin
American Spectator contributing editor Jed Babbin served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in the George H. W. Bush administration. He writes the “Loose Canons” column for The American Spectator and often appears as a talking warhead on television and radio. He is coauthor (with Herbert London) of the book The BDS War Against Israel. He is also the author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe are Worse Than You Think. You can follow him on Twitter@jedbabbin.
by | Nov 26, 2023

Israel has lost the initiative in its defensive war against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip as conclusively demonstrated in the ongoing confusion in the release of hostages. The Friday hostage release was made, but on Saturday, Hamas had refused…

by | Nov 19, 2023

Last week, President Biden and his State Department renewed a waiver of sanctions on Iran selling electricity to Iraq. That waiver, first granted in July and now renewed, gives Iran access to a $10 billion account held in Oman. Once…

by | Nov 12, 2023

The U.S. media hasn’t paid much attention to the Russian war to conquer Ukraine since the Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wanted to visit Israel very soon after the October 7 attacks, but Israelis…

by | Nov 5, 2023

Soon after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, President Biden said that the Israelis shouldn’t give in to their “rage.” Israel was, and is, too smart to give in to rage, and it hasn’t. It has engaged in a massive…

by | Oct 29, 2023

Three weeks after the 7 October attacks on Israel by Hamas, Israeli forces are moving gradually into the Gaza Strip. They are doing so gradually because political pressure — especially from the Biden administration — has caused them to delay….

by | Oct 22, 2023

President Biden is, as we would expect, completely preoccupied with the wars in Ukraine and Israel. Though the wars are not the same — one is for conquest, the other for genocide — they have one horrible common factor: the…

by | Oct 15, 2023

As Hamas’s genocidal war against it continues, Israel faces three immediate problems: to rescue the hundreds of hostages Hamas has taken (some of whom are Americans), to destroy the terrorist force of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and to deter…

by | Oct 8, 2023

It’s impossible to say which of President Biden’s policies is the worst and most harmful to the United States because he has done so much so quickly to destroy our economy, our security, and our standing in the world. One…

by | Oct 3, 2023

The 1984 movie The Last Starfighter focused on a lonely teenage boy, Alex, whose only real pleasure was found in playing a video game named “Starfighter.” Alex excelled at it, beating every level of challenge the game threw at him. What…

by | Sep 24, 2023

A September 15 article in the Wall Street Journal  brought to light the sad state of Britain’s Royal Air Force. The article pointed out that military power is declining across the NATO powers and both Britain and the United States…

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