by | Feb 7, 2025

When news of the hostage release was announced, Palestinian Arab Hamas terrorists came out of their tunnels, celebrating their supposed great “victory” over the Israelis. In some quarters, chants of “Khaybar” were heard, which commemorated another supposed victory (over the…

by | Feb 6, 2025

This is a column about Gaza and Donald Trump’s out-of-the-box, shocking little spitball that maybe the U.S. would take the place over and rebuild it into something completely different than the hellhole it is presently. You’ve seen all kinds of…

by | Feb 6, 2025

A flurry of executive orders and the specter of a reorganization of USAID have focused attention on a sphere of policy in need of reform. In addition to the often-cited issue of wasted tax dollars, serious matters such as terror…

by | Feb 5, 2025

Three-fifths is the most notorious fraction in American history. For purposes of apportionment, the U.S. Constitution’s Three-fifths Compromise counted “other persons” — namely black slaves — as equal to 60 percent of non-slaves, who were overwhelmingly white, along with free…

by | Feb 2, 2025

Since its founding in the wake of the Holocaust, Israel has been seen by those who love freedom and justice as a “light” unto the nations, an uncanny progenitor of what it means to be brought low and to rise…

by | Jan 30, 2025

President Trump has floated the idea that people in Gaza should relocate during the eventual post-war reconstruction efforts. He suggested that countries in the region could “build housing in a different location where [Palestinians] can maybe live in peace for…

by | Jan 28, 2025

Hamas evidently learned from their mistakes on Jan. 19 when the first Israeli hostages were released with the ceasefire deal — three women between the ages of 24 and 31 — were paraded through the streets of Gaza before a…

by | Jan 20, 2025

The hostage/prisoner exchange and ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is now underway. While Israel is eagerly hoping for a swift return of all the hostages kidnapped by Hamas, other terrorist groups, and Palestinian civilians on October 7, 2023, little press…

by | Jan 19, 2025

Just before 4 p.m. on Sunday, January 19, Hamas released three Israeli hostages held in Gazan captivity since Oct. 7, 2023. Romi Gonen (24), kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova Music Festival, together with Emily Damari (28) and Doron Steinbrecher…

by | Jan 12, 2025

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…

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