Arab Israel conflict

Biden Endorses Schumer’s Attack On Israel

Featured image Yesterday, Chuck Schumer took the Senate floor to deliver a ringing condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and of Israel’s conduct of its war against Hamas. Schumer’s speech represented a naked effort to interfere in Israeli politics by seeking to overturn that country’s government. Today a reporter asked Joe Biden about Schumer’s speech. Biden endorsed it: President Biden hailed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday for calling on »

“Get Me a Deal!”

Featured image That is what Joe Biden demanded of the Israelis, Hamas and representatives of Qatar and Egypt who are trying to broker a cease-fire agreement. As though he were the party in interest. The Telegraph interprets Biden’s motives: Mr Biden is under major pressure from voters over the US alliance with Israel, and the president was punished at the ballot box by protesting young Democrats in the primaries last week. So »

Et Tu, William?

Featured image Prince William, of whom I generally think highly, has joined the chorus of those urging Israel to stand down: In a statement on Tuesday released by Kensington Palace, Prince William said: “I remain deeply concerned about the terrible human cost of the conflict in the Middle East since the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7. Too many have been killed. “I, like so many others, want to see an end »

Reining In Israel

Featured image The Wall Street Journal has a long article about the Biden administration’s efforts to stop Israel from winning a decisive victory over Gaza: The looming Israeli military plans to invade Rafah have exacerbated tensions between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and the Biden administration, which has grown increasingly frustrated with its attempts to rein in Israel’s military campaign. The consequences of the distrust between President Biden and Netanyahu, who »

Forget the Two-State “Solution”

Featured image For several decades now, the Western Left has been devoted to an imaginary “two-state solution” to the problem that Muslim fanatics keep trying to kill the Jews. Somehow, the problem and the alleged solution don’t seem to match up. Nevertheless, liberals in both the U.S. and Western Europe have recently been returning to the two-state fantasy. In Britain’s Telegraph, John Bolton argues: “The two-state solution is dead. Israel must achieve »

Innocent Civilians?

Featured image Ever since Israel began to retaliate against Gaza’s infamous attacks of October 7, the “international community” has been wringing its hands over the danger to innocent civilians in Gaza. But few have asked the question, how many innocent civilians are there in Gaza? Are there any? Mia Schem is an Israeli who was held captive in Gaza for 54 days, and released as part of last month’s prisoner exchange. This »

What Happened on October 7

Featured image I am generally contemptuous of the New York Times, but it deserves credit for this article on the violence against Israeli women and girls that was perpetrated by Gaza on October 7. The article is long and chilling. Organized gang rape, mutilation and murder were obviously features of the Gazans’ strategy. The evidence described by the Times is sickening; I credit a left-wing outlet for being willing to describe unflinchingly »

Merry Christmas, Gaza

Featured image The latest from the Gaza Strip includes the discovery of child-size suicide vests from a Gazan kindergarten: Israel finds explosive belts made for kids, toy chests with warheads in Gaza. Israeli soldiers found Hamas explosive belts adapted for children and toy chests hiding warheads at a Gaza kindergarten, the army said over the weekend. The Israel Defense Forces said a sweep of a Hamas-operated area near schools, a mosque and »

Announcing Our 2024 Annual Gala Speaker

Featured image Center of the American Experiment has hosted prominent international figures at several of our Annual Dinners, including Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev. It has been a while since we have brought in a foreign leader, but this year I thought the time had come. This video makes the announcement: Announcing our 2024 Annual Gala speaker… pic.twitter.com/qKZzlBtaAJ — Center of the American Experiment (@MNThinkTank) December 22, 2023 Naftali Bennett is a »

Spoiler Alert: Nowhere

Featured image You know we live in a crazy world when Bill Maher is a voice of sanity. But these days, that is sometimes true. On his show last night, Maher gave viewers a history lesson and explained why the path of “resistance” for Arabs and their useful idiots on American campuses is futile. He’s wrong about a few things, but even if it’s not perfect, given his audience this is a »

Globalize the Jihad!

Featured image That is one of the mantras recited by Hamas supporters across the Western world. And, as usual, we should assume that terrorists mean what they say. The Telegraph reports: “Hamas plot to attack Jews across Europe is foiled by police.” A Hamas plot to kill Jews in Europe was foiled by German and Danish police who uncovered the terrorist group’s alarming change of tactics. Three people were arrested in Germany, »

Morality: Now a Partisan Issue

Featured image This Wall Street Journal poll confirms what we have all been seeing. The most basic moral principles–opposition to mass murder, gang rape and attempted genocide–are now part of our partisan political divide. Here are the numbers: Republicans are overwhelmingly pro-Israel, by 69% to 2%, while Democrats are more likely to be pro-Palestinian, by 24% to 17%. Young Democrats skew the balance, being overwhelmingly pro-terrorist: Democrats under the age of 50 »

Israel Warned Not to Offend Gazans

Featured image You see this every time conflict breaks out between Israel and Palestinian terrorists. This time, it is the Telegraph, but you can find many more examples: “How the invasion of Gaza risks radicalising a new generation of Palestinians.” As opposed to the generation that launched the October 7 massacre, apparently. Air strikes and a lightning ground offensive in the north forced more than a million people into southern Gaza, a »

The Red Cross Takes a Side

Featured image It is hard to understand why a wide range of non-governmental organizations, including but not limited to news organizations, have become embedded with Hamas in Gaza and are on Hamas’s side. A case in point is the Red Cross. From the Jerusalem Post: Families of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas were reprimanded by representatives of the Red Cross in a meeting earlier this week, with the Red Cross telling »

CAIR Applauds Massacre of Jews

Featured image The Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, masquerades as a civil rights organization and is taken seriously as such by the liberal press. In fact, however, it is a front for jihadists. CAIR was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism case. It has a long history of anti-Semitic agitation and propaganda. It added to that ignominious history on November 24, at the 16th Annual Convention for Palestine in »

What Innocent Civilians?

Featured image The Biden administration is demanding that Israel take even more extraordinary measures to avoid harming “innocent civilians” as it tries to eradicate Hamas. Around the world, politicians and others express dismay at the alleged number of innocent civilians who have been killed by Israeli bombardments, even while admitting that Hamas’s casualty numbers include its own terrorists, people killed by terrorists’ awol missiles, and so on. But my complaint is more »

Genocidal Greta

Featured image Among the many leftists who have expressed support for Hamas, seemingly unconcerned with its outrages of October 7, is Greta Thunberg. Thunberg, now 20 years old, is regarded as a heroine by many for her uncompromising demand that the Western world (she hasn’t visited China, to my knowledge) stop using fossil fuels. Just the News reports (see original for links): Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is dividing the climate movement »