Arab Israel conflict

It’s Time to Crush Gaza

Featured image When a country is invaded by a foreign power, the only sane response is to retaliate with massive, overwhelming, disproportionate force. And when an invader commits the kinds of atrocities that we have seen over the last week, unprecedented in modern times, vengeance must be the order of the day. War is a terrible thing. But the Gazans started this war, and war is what they are going to get. »

Into Gaza [Updated]

Featured image The IDF has told Gazans to move to the south end of the Gaza Strip, in anticipation of Israeli troops entering from the north: Israel has told 1.1 million Palestinians living in northern Gaza to leave now ahead of its expected ground assault on Hamas. The military said on Friday morning it planned to “operate significantly” within Gaza City “in the coming days”. All citizens and UN staff have been »

Shame On Journalists

Featured image A supercilious Sky News “journalist” interviewed former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and almost immediately started interrogating him about Palestinian civilians. What is Israel going to do to assure that no Palestinian civilians are harmed? Happily, Bennett wasn’t having it. He fired back with both barrels, to the discomfiture of the reporter, who at the end was left refusing to answer Bennett’s question. It is pretty glorious: »

A Clarifying Moment

Featured image Floyd Mayweather is one of the greatest fighters of all time, but he has never claimed to be a moral paragon. Still, he knows where he stands on decapitating babies: God bless Floyd Mayweather pic.twitter.com/X9IaE5jzRO — Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 11, 2023 You have to be much, much smarter than a mere boxer to contemplate gang rape, mass murder of men, women and children, taking of hostages, spitting on »

Playboy > Harvard

Featured image I’m so old, I can remember when it would have been shocking to suggest that Playboy Magazine has more moral sense than Harvard University. Nowadays, maybe that doesn’t come as a surprise. In any event, it’s true. When former porn performer Mia Khalifa tweeted her support for Hamas’s mass murderers and suggested that the killers should film their deeds horizontally so she could see them better, Playboy promptly cashiered her: »

The Palestinians’ Attack on Kibbutz Kfar Aza: A Personal Note

Featured image Some of the Palestinians’ worst terrorist outrages were committed at Kibbutz Afar Aza, located almost adjacent to the Gaza border. They murdered many people there; I haven’t seen a total body count, but reportedly 40 infants were slaughtered in their cribs: 'About 40 babies were taken out on gurneys… Cribs overturned, strollers left behind, doors left wide open' Our correspondent @Nicole_Zedek continues to survey the horror scenes left behind in »

Hamas Threatens to Execute Hostages

Featured image From the Times of Israel: The Hamas terror group is threatening to begin executing hostages in response to Israeli strikes in Gaza carried out without warnings, the spokesperson for Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades says, according to Gaza’s Shehab news outlet. “From this hour, any targeting of our people in the safety of their homes, without warning, will be met with the execution of civilian hostages, which will be broadcast »

J’Accuse

Featured image On Twitter, Victor Davis Hanson draws together several threads relating to the Gazans’ invasion of Israel. How does it fit into the broader currents of Middle Eastern Politics? Why now? What was Iran’s role? And how relevant is the Biden administration’s incompetence and anti-Israel bias? Victor’s tweet is embedded below, but I have taken the liberty of reproducing its text: A 50th Anniversary War? Why did Hamas stage a long-planned, »

Socialists Cheer Hamas Invasion

Featured image Around the world, groups of Muslims turned out to celebrate Hamas’s successful sneak attack on Israel. More surprisingly, perhaps, the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America also demonstrated in Times Square in favor of the invasion. That would be the chapter to which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez belongs. At least six members of the House of Representatives are also members of DSA: 🗣️🗣️🗣️ Tomorrow, October 8, at 1PM. Times »

Israel’s Pearl Harbor [Updated]

Featured image Many, including Scott earlier this morning, have referred to the Gazan invasion as “Israel’s 9/11.” I respectfully disagree. I think Pearl Harbor is a more apt analogy. Hamas’s invasion was no mere act of terrorism. It was, rather, an act of war carried out by what is effectively a state. Prime Minister Netanyahu got it right when he said, immediately after the invasion was launched, that Israel was at war. »

Israel’s 9/11: The day after

Featured image As William Buckley used to say, herewith a few comments on Hamas’s 10/7 attack on Israel (with apologies for those that have already achieved the status of cliché): • Hamas’s 10/7 attack is something like Israel’s 9/11, only worse. Israel’s death toll has hit more than 400 (and rising). Adjusting for population and measuring by the deaths inflicted so far, Israel has suffered (is suffering) an attack that is something »

So Much For “Peace”

Featured image The Palestinians who invaded Israel have focused on kidnapping civilians, mostly young women. This was facilitated by the fact that there was a “rave for peace” going on near Gaza that many young people attended. The Palestinians no doubt knew this, and planned to attack the event. They took a number of young women captive there. This video has been seen millions of times. There is a naked young woman »

Oslo 30 years later

Featured image The thirtieth anniversary of the Oslo Accords has passed without great fanfare. They wrought great damage and the damage they wrought continues to unfold. In the Middle East Forum video below Daniel Pipes recalls the great expectations created by the Oslo Accords. He then reviews twelve Israeli errors that turned them into disaster and concludes by reviewing lessons learned and/or unlearned. Pipes is a historian and author of 16 books »

Mahmoud Abbas’s Jewish problem

Featured image Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times. He is a veteran reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor for the New York Times and other publications. Cliff’s most recent column is “Mahmoud Abbas’s Jewish problem” (at FDD, where it is posted with links). Cliff has kindly given us his permission to post his column on Power Line. »

Mahmoud Abbas explains

Featured image Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas earned his Ph.D. in history from the Soviet Union’s Patrice Lumumba University with a dissertation on The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism. So you know where he was coming from in his recent historical discourse, documented by the invaluable MEMRI: “Hitler Fought The European Jews Because Of Their Usury, Money Dealings; It Was Not About Antisemitism; Jews From Arab Countries Did »

Iran’s shadow war

Featured image Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times. He is a veteran reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor for the New York Times and other publications. Cliff’s most recent column is “Iran’s shadow war” (at FDD, where it is posted with links). Cliff has kindly given us his permission to post his column on Power Line. He »

Peacemaking, Stalinist style

Featured image Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and a columnist for the Washington Times. He is a veteran reporter, foreign correspondent, and editor for the New York Times and other publications. Cliff’s most recent column is “The Stalinist approach to peacemaking.” The link goes to the column as posted at FDD with voluminous links. In response to my request Cliff has kindly »