Just as the Israel Defense Forces encircle the Hamas stronghold of Gaza City, calls for a “ceasefire” are accelerating. For the first week or two after the Hamas Holocaust of Oct. 7, which saw the most Jews massacred in a…
Without popular support, no democracy can win a war, even if its armed forces are stronger. Vietnam taught this lesson. Though American arms suffered many casualties, and some battles were touch and go, in the end, our forces were unbeaten….
Yes, yes — we’re leading off this week’s 5QT with a recitation of the obvious. But have you noticed that recitations of the obvious appear ever more necessary as our world devolves into utter stupidity? Back in college, I had…
We all know that the colleges turn good Christian and Jewish children from good homes with good values and love of G-d and country into America-hating G-dless woke progressives. They come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and parents hardly can…
“If you get them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.” That’s one version. Another, from a veteran military adviser in Vietnam, turned it around: “It was hard to win the villagers’ hearts and minds when the VC…
Ever since I was a teenager, I’ve been working intermittently on a theatrical project that’s so politically incorrect, and thus so unlikely to ever, ever be professionally produced, that for a long time now it’s never really been anything more…
We cannot let the English language be counted among Hamas’ victims. Thus far, Hamas’ terror has seen 1,400 Israelis and migrant workers of Jewish, Arab, Nepalese, Thai, Filipino, and other backgrounds raped, tortured, and killed; over 200 Israelis kidnapped, some,…
Editors’ Note: Israeli Puppy Daycare Bombing The New York Times Nov. 15, 2023 The New York Times recently reported on an explosion at the Qasin Jalila Puppy Daycare Center in Gaza City, relying solely on one source, the Hamas Ministry…
I told it to my four-year-old kids, then when they were seven and nine and fourteen and eighteen and twenty-plus. It was a mantra that my Dad, of blessed memory, told me: “Life is not a bowl of cherries. So…
