When a country is at war, its people often experience many surprising coincidences. With all of the shuffling around that takes place during wartime from one day to the next, people suddenly end up in places they never expected to…
As Israel continues its systematic assault on Hamas deep inside Gaza, closing in on high-ranking targets and putting the jihadist outfit’s sprawling subterranean tunnel network squarely in its crosshairs, the conversation has already begun to shift away from the warfare…
The House of Representatives devolved into chaos after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker on Oct. 3. During the frustrating three-week stalemate that followed, three Republican representatives failed to clinch the top position. The impasse finally broke on Oct. 25,…
A month after Hamas massacred over 1,400 people in Israel, the war they unleashed is not going well for them. Israeli airstrikes have taken out key leaders, command posts, and arms depots. The Israel Defense Forces has isolated Gaza City…
The church bodies of conservative Protestantism are seeing the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 for the unspeakable and indefensible outrage that it is and are justifying Israel’s militant response as a legitimate application of “just war” doctrine. To…
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…
Americans on both sides of the aisle were outraged by reports that Hamas had slaughtered 40 babies in their initial attack against Israel last month — and rightfully so. It’s hard to imagine anything more abhorrent and manifestly evil than…
“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…
The University of California, Berkeley, has come under a barrage of criticism after a class offered extra credit for students to participate in a walkout against Israel’s “settler-colonial occupation of Gaza.” The class, called “Asian American Communities and Race Relations”…
