by | Dec 5, 2024

A week after Israel announced its acceptance of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Hezbollah, the fragile peace was put to the test. On Monday, Dec. 2, Hezbollah launched mortars into northern Israeli territory, forcing the Israel Air Force (IAF) to carry…

by | Nov 26, 2024

Countries finally struck a deal Sunday at the annual United Nations climate summit, COP29. The terms? Developed countries will shell out $300 billion per year to developing countries. Even though the deal tripled the amount that wealthy countries are doling…

by | Nov 18, 2024

COP29, the global U.N. climate conference, is underway in Azerbaijan. Attendees at the conference (other than the host delegates and hundreds of fossil fuel lobbyists) have been bemoaning the fact that the world is way off target to keep warming…

by | Nov 12, 2024

Hezbollah in southern Lebanon has assaulted Israel with tens of thousands of rockets and missiles for over a year, forcing over 60,000 northern Israeli residents to flee their homes. Although Israel has been responding with airstrikes against Hezbollah’s military infrastructure…

by | Oct 19, 2024

The past month has brought news of myriad spectacular triumphs by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), at the expense of Israel’s, America’s, and the West’s mortal enemies in the Mideast: Iran and its putrid proxies. In a few weeks, the…

by | Oct 13, 2024

My favorite charities are those that feed people. In recent years I have taken up the custom of delivering holiday packages to indigent Jews in Toronto in behalf of Chabad and did so again last week just before Rosh Hashana,…

by | Oct 11, 2024

As we mark the anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas-orchestrated brutality against Israel, focus has rightfully been on mourning the victims and remembering the hostages still held in Gaza. At the same time, the world needs to remember that October…

by | Sep 29, 2024

Britain is floundering, there’s no getting away from it. As to why, you could write an encyclopedia on the subject: The critical absence of conservatism since Thatcher, to the extent that a third of the electorate mistook Keir Starmer for…

by | Sep 26, 2024

WASHINGTON — Public opinion on the Oct. 7 attacks that killed 1,200 in Israel has flipped among Gazans, according to a recent poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. A majority of Gazans now believe the Hamas…

by | Jun 30, 2024

It’s hard now to recapture just how “leading from behind” became a catchphrase for Barack Obama’s approach to foreign policy. Attribution for the phrase, at least in the Obama context, is all over the place. Did he ever say it?…

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