Gaza
September 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The morning’s email roundup from Mosaic directs attention to the video jointly produced by the Center for Peace Communications/Free Press (Free Press story here, behind the FP paywall). The video depicts Al Jazeera at work. Mosaic provides this background: Because Hamas cannot overpower the IDF on the battlefield, it counts on inciting global hostility to Israel until international pressure forces Israel to stop fighting. This strategy depends both on distributing
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September 3, 2025 — John Hinderaker
President Trump is demanding that Gaza release all Israeli hostages: In response, Hamas said that it would release hostages in return for a release of Arab criminals by Israel, and withdrawal of Israel from Gaza. Prime Minister Netanyahu dismissed that response as “more spin by Hamas, containing nothing new.” There are reports that the final battle may be at hand. I hope so. In my opinion, Israel has erred from
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August 17, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Five things that caught my eye over the last few days, about which I don’t have enough to say to merit a post: Minnesota has become a laughingstock, as has public radio. Combine the two, and this is what you get: I actually like that. Everything that reveals the insanity of the global warming crowd is a public service. Next, my idea of solid police work: Police in Paris arrest
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August 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Sources inside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office say that Israel’s government intends to complete its occupation of Gaza: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reached a decision for the full occupation of the Gaza Strip, including operations in areas where hostages are held, a source in the Prime Minister’s Office told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. The Prime Minister’s Office conveyed the message to IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir:
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August 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
It must be difficult for some to understand the inversions of reality that Hamas is pulling off with the help of its friends and allies in the Western world. It almost defies belief. The leaders of Great Britain, France, and Canada have all fallen into line for Hamas. Hamas is desperate to starve the people under its thumb for propaganda purposes and to control the distribution of food for the
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August 2, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The liberal press has been promoting for some time the idea that there is a famine in Gaza, and it is caused by Israel. The New York Times went so far as to perpetrate a hoax, publishing a picture of an emaciated child and falsely alleging that it was due to Israel-induced famine. In fact, the boy suffers from a debilitating disease, not starvation, and the Times conveniently left out
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July 15, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Beirut was once known as the Paris of the Middle East, but Islamic radicalism put an end to that. What will be the next Paris of the Middle East? The way things are going, Paris will be. Paris is already a good part of the way there. Its reckless importation of Middle Easterners has made sections of the city and its suburbs more or less off-limits to non-Arabs. Yesterday, France’s
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June 29, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Scott beat me to a post on the kill-the-Jews rally at England’s Glastonbury music festival. Anti-Semitism is now trendy. In videos from Glastonbury, you can see “Palestinian”–read, pro-Hamas–flags flying. That has become a common sight on American college campuses, too. Across the globe, liberals are lining up on the pro-Hamas side. Their history of events in Israel begins on October 8. To hear them tell it, Israel launched a weirdly
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June 12, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The latest news from the Gaza war is “Hamas attacks Gaza aid group, kills at least five, staff feared taken hostage.” That’s public relations management, Hamas style. The AP appears to be a constituent element of the Hamas public relations strategy. Yesterday the AP “reported,” in the style to which we have grown accustomed, “More than 55,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza health officials say,” complete
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June 2, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Gaza is one of the most benighted places on Earth, likely the most benighted. It has no real educational system; its schools are devoted to propagating bigotry. It has virtually no economy; it is a society that lives on international welfare. It is primitive in all the ways liberals say they hate–viciously misogynistic, murderous toward homosexuals, prone to torture political opponents to death. It is the most backward theocracy on
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April 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
News media around the world have uncritically repeated Hamas’s obviously false claims about casualties in the war it started against Israel. At most, press outlets have conventionally said that Hamas’s numbers haven’t been, or can’t be, verified. Now Hamas has casually admitted that it was lying all along: Hamas quietly removed the names of thousands of Palestinians it had previously alleged were killed during the Israel-Hamas war, Salo Aizenberg, from
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March 9, 2025 — John Hinderaker
France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. are now backing the Egyptian/Arab plan to rebuild Gaza at a cost of $53 billion, while leaving the Gazans in place. This proposal is touted as a “realistic” alternative to President Trump’s “Middle East Riviera” concept. Perhaps I am an outlier here, but I am not in favor of any plan to rebuild Gaza at the expense of others. Should Gaza’s attempted genocide really
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February 16, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I appeared on Sky News Australia’s excellent Outsiders program last night. In a bit of a departure, most of my segment dealt with foreign policy. We talked about Gaza and Israel, and the fact that noon yesterday passed without all Hell breaking loose. We talked about the prospects for peace in Ukraine and Secretary Rubio’s visit to Israel. And we found time at the end for DOGE and the vast
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February 9, 2025 — Scott Johnson
On her last day in Australia yesterday, Melanie Phillips appeared with John Hinderaker’s friends on the Sky News Australia show Outsiders to discuss President Trump’s proposal for a Gaza “Riviera,” the Arab world’s current view of Israel and the western liberals’ love affair with Hamas. Phillips is the brilliant columnist and author, most recently, of The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West — and Why Only They
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February 6, 2025 — Steven Hayward
Amidst all the ruckus over Trump’s typically glorious “norm-breaking” proposal to move Palestinians out of Gaza while the strip is rebuilt in to a glorious resort, complete with some U.S. equity position, few people noticed (and no one in the media asked about) a national security directive released on Tuesday regarding Iran that contains the following language: Iran’s nuclear program, including its enrichment- and reprocessing-related capabilities and nuclear-capable missiles, poses
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February 5, 2025 — John Hinderaker
One odd thing about liberals is that they are not good at nuance. They are not skillful readers, and often have trouble understanding the tone of communications. This is what leads them, for example, to fact-check the Babylon Bee. More importantly, it causes them to misunderstand President Trump. Trump has several ways of speaking: sometimes he is deadly serious; sometimes he is casually offering an out-of-the-box idea, perhaps for the
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January 31, 2025 — John Hinderaker
The ongoing release of Israeli hostages has brought more information to light about Hamas and its relationship with the United Nations. Thus: Mandy Damari, mother of Emily Damari who was freed after 470 days in captivity earlier this month, revealed on Friday that her daughter was held in [United Nations Relief and Works Agency for for Palestine Refugees] facilities in Gaza during her captivity. Damari made the revelation during a
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