Obama to the rescue – of Hamas


    Operation Protective Edge is now two weeks old. Since the ground offensive began Thursday night, we have begun to get a better picture of just how dangerous Hamas has become in the nine years since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip. And what we have learned is that the time has come to take care of this problem.…

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Jewish News reviews The Israeli Solution: Is it time for the two-state plan to be ditched?


Jeremy Havardi reviews Caroline Glick’s agenda-setting new book, The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East   Since the 1990s, the dominant consensus in foreign policy circles is that only a two- state solution can resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.   Creating a Palestinian state has become an article of faith across the political mainstream, both in Europe…

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US to send $47M in humanitarian aid to Gaza Strip


Wounded soldiers in the hospital have given a clearer picture of what Hamas’s battlefield looks like. When our forces came to Sejeiyah, Hamas sent children into the street wearing suicide vest and with rifles and orders to shoot at our soldiers. One soldier told his parents that a terrorist carrying a baby in one hand and a rifle in the…

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How to win in Gaza


  Israel deployed ground forces in Gaza Thursday night both because Hamas’s terror tunnels into Israel have become an unacceptable threat, and because it had to break the deadlock that had developed between it and Hamas.   Until the ground invasion, Israel and Hamas were in a holding pattern. Hamas would not accept a ceasefire deal because Egypt’s offers provided…

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Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is inevitable


    This week Tablet Magazine published an article by David Goldman called “Between the Settlers and the Unsettlers, the One-State Solution Is on Our Doorstep,” in which he argues that Israel will have to apply its sovereignty over Judea and Samaria in the not too distant future because the Palestinians are incapable of governing themselves, and someone needs to be…

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The Popular Palestinians


  If the Palestinians are merely engaged in a nationalist struggle for self-determination, then why are they inciting genocide of Jewry?     In the midst of Operation Protective Edge, Hamas released a music video in Hebrew calling for the Palestinians to bomb Israel and kill all Israelis.   “Raze it [Israel] to the ground, exterminate the cockroaches’ nest, and…

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Hamas’s (and Iran’s) fail-safe strategy


  What is Hamas doing?   Hamas isn’t going to defeat Israel.   It isn’t going to gain any territory. Israel isn’t going to withdraw from Ashkelon or Sderot under a hail of rockets.   So if Hamas can’t win, why is it fighting?   Why rain down destruction and misery on millions of Israelis with your Iranian missiles and…

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Fighting enemies from within and without


  Sixteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir was doing his own thing last Tuesday when he was abducted by Jewish terrorists, who slaughtered him. They killed him because he was an Arab, and they are racist murderers.   The police made solving Abu Khdeir’s murder a top priority. In less than a week, they had six suspects in custody. Three confessed to…

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