Ta-Nehisi Coates, in his 2023 book, The Message, based on a 10-day West Bank trip, makes broad claims about Israel’s treatment of its Arab citizens. He focused his rhetoric on demonstrating that Israeli practices amount to apartheid by showing parallels…
President Trump likes to keep everyone — enemies and friends alike — off balance. He is, as is often said, The Great Disruptor. Trump’s announcement Tuesday evening that we should take over the Gaza Strip and rebuild it into another…
Friedman Pines for China Thomas Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer winner and the New York Times’s foreign-affairs columnist since 1995, has long maintained a set of curious views about world affairs. Most prominent, perhaps, is his elevation of climate change above…
While the Biden-Harris administration just approved $1.3 billion in aid to Egypt, a legacy of the Egypt-Israel peace agreement from 1979, Egypt continues to broadcast hatred against the Jewish state. Rather than finding ways to support Egypt-Israel peace and the…
A Wednesday CBS News report informed us that President Biden and his crew were considering flying an unknown number of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the U.S. to be resettled here as refugees. Such an astoundingly bad idea could…
I have spent my career in academic science and believe that merit and objectivity are essential guarantors of the scientific enterprise. Boycotts pose the greatest threat. Today, they are being used to target Israel, but, in reality, they are aimed…
It’s rightly been called the airlift that saved Israel. And an airlift that interrupted my English history professor’s lectures. On Oct. 6, 1973, at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, Israel was attacked by the Soviet-backed forces of Egypt and Syria….
Editor’s Note: This is the second of four articles covering the interlinked topics of Israel’s relations with the U.S. and the challenge posed by Iran’s nuclear program. Much of what follows, especially as to diplomatic maneuvers, is drawn from a…
Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer, Wine, Spirits, and Cocktails By Camper English (Penguin Books, 368 pages, $18) Walk into the average American grocery store and you will see the spices in one aisle, herbal cures in…
