Aharon Haliva has got to go. Now.


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…

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Biden is the primary obstacle to Israeli victory


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…

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The true evil of Hamas


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.

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‘I fought with 40 terrorists’: An eyewitness account of the battle of Oct. 7


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…

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What do the Palestinians Want?


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…

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