12/01/2023
Immediately after the blackest day in Israeli history, a consensus formed that we must wait until after the war to investigate how Hamas was able to invade the country, slaughter 1,200 innocents and get away with 240 hostages. There’s a lot to recommend this position. We’re at war. Now is not the time for action, not recrimination and trials for…
12/01/2023
The Israeli government is going to have to make some changes in the IDF General Staff if we want to win this war. The West is also going to have to make some changes in the way that it does things if it wants to survive. I discuss in In Focus.
12/01/2023
The time has come to discuss the Biden administration’s relationship with Israel. With each passing day, two things become obvious. First, Israel cannot fight the war without U.S. resupply of the Israel Defense Forces. As a consequence, Israel is beholden to the administration’s directives. And second, if Israel follows the Biden administration’s directives, it will lose the war. Israel’s dependence…
12/01/2023
Hamas pretends to be the “nice guy” while we begin to hear about the horrors endured by the hostages and the terrifying nature of Palestinian society. Yet the Biden administration pushes onward to a Two State Solution of disastrous proportions. I provide the details on In Focus.
11/30/2023
On November 9, Maj. Moshe Yedidya Leiter, a commander in the IDF’s special forces was killed in Gaza along with three of his men when they discovered an opening to a Hamas tunnel that was booby-trapped. My guest this week was my old friend, colleague, political commentator and Moshe’s father Yechiel Leiter. Yechiel discussed his son’s life, and his loss…
11/30/2023
I sat down with Professor Yisrael Aumman, winner of the Nobel Prize for economics and a pioneer of game theory, to talk about the hostage deal with Hamas. We also discussed the nature of Hamas’s war doctrine and what Israel must accomplish to come out on top.
11/30/2023
Israel has agreed to a deal to release Palestinian prisoners with “no blood on their hands” in return for hostages. Is this a good deal for Israel or is this a trap to defeat the war effort against Hamas? I analyze on In Focus.
11/30/2023
I spoke with reserve Lt. Col. Yaron Buskila, operations officer for the Gaza Division. Col. Buskila shared his first-person account of the battle at division headquarters on Oct. 7. We discussed the gap between the Southern Command’s understanding of Hamas’s intentions and preparations for a worst-case scenario and the far worse scenario that unfolded on Oct. 7. Buskila and I…
11/30/2023
The IDF continues to cave to American pressure on the battlefield, Biden threatens consequences for “destabilizing” Jewish settler violence, and a new poll shows just how radical the Palestinians are.
11/19/2023
For more than a generation, the Israeli left and Western leaders have insisted that the Palestinians want peace. They want a state of their own. They want Israel to leave the Gaza Strip, Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. And once they get these things, they will live at peace with Israel. Successive U.S. administrations have modulated their support for Israel based…