Didn’t you defend Obama when he authorized 170 drone strikes in Yemen, around 500 across Pakistan and 30 on Somalia without congressional support? I’m pausing and giving that a think, and then recalling what a disaster your administrations foreign policy was…

I’ll always be a liberal at heart, but I grew up in South Africa and am rather well acquainted with the post-colonial Leftist sharks whose worldview has now strung up the Western Left in a series of delusions. Thank God I live in Israel, because there is nothing in those

Pleased to be cited here by Maarten Boudry in De Morgen on Hamas' human sacrifice strategy, and how it reflects not something unique about Hamas or the Palestinians but rather something unique about the international incentives for any party fighting Israel.

Happy Bastille Day to the French. Let us raise a glass to liberté, égalité, fraternité-but also let us not forget the legacy of your twentieth-century philosophers, whose gift to the world was nothing less than a magnificent illusion haunting us today. For in their salons and

If you believed this, truly believed it, you wouldn’t be able to conclude, as you do, that you can massacre (October 7) your way to a two state solution.

I went to see Oasis in Manchester tonight, and what struck me was that there was no national flag, no chants, no calls for violence or death of anyone. Just an excellent performance making beautiful music with thousands enjoying it. I guess that when you’re so talented, you

Anyone symbolically recognizing a Palestinian state should be forced to present a concrete plan for how it would come into being. Sovereignty demands responsibility—something no Palestinian leader has ever shown, neither in the past nor now. The so-called “moderate” stance of the

As for the Knesset holding a symbolic vote to annex the West Bank, they would have done better to answer Macron by symbolically recognizing the independence of every territory France still controls, still denied full independence. Or better yet, recognize Algiers as a French

This, in the end, is your greatest problem. For all the certainties with which you speak, you do not understand Israelis—and because you imagine that you do, you have built an entire national identity on the myth of resistance. Resistance as posture, resistance as creed. But what

Palestine, as a political idea, was elevated into an omnicause around which successive ideological movements could spin their own myths of redemption and grievance. In the Arab world, it became the mirror for Pan-Arabism’s humiliations. In the Islamist world, it was transformed

Hamas has remained brutally consistent in its war strategy. And central to that is the role of the hostages—a policy pursued not for leverage in negotiation, but for leverage in resurrection. A trade not merely for lives, but for reconstitution in Gaza. In this, they have trapped

All I heard over the last few weeks was that Macron and Starmer’s recognition of the State of Palestine was not a reward for terror. I said nothing. Not because I agreed, but because I thought—even if it wasn’t a reward—it was unmistakably a reversal of the incentive structure

Artikel van Samuel J. Hyde סמואל ג'י הייד over Soedan: 25 miljoen mensen lijden honger, 522.000 kinderen dood, 8,8 miljoen mensen ontheemd, 3,5 miljoen gevlucht over de grens. Over het selectieve geweten van het postmoderne Westen, over de ruïne van wat ooit vooruitgang heette. Over hoe het