Hamas’s deception, and our self-deception


Last Sunday, senior Hamas terrorist Ali Baraka told the tale of how Hamas duped Israel and the U.S. into complacency. In an interview with RT (formerly Russia Today), Baraka said, “In the past couple of years, Hamas has adopted a ‘rational’ approach. It did not go into any war and did not join Islamic Jihad in its recent battle, [i.e., its missile assault…

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ISRAEL AT WAR: What happened to the IDF?


On Sunday night I was joined for a discussion of the IDF’s conceptual failure that blinded the General Staff to the threat Hamas posed to Israel in the months preceding Saturday’s invasion. David and I also discussed the Biden administration’s contribution to Hamas’s actions, particularly through its efforts to appease Hamas’s state sponsor – Iran.

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“We the People” Begin to Speak


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his family packed their bags Monday night for their vacation on the Golan Heights. The police also made their routine preparations. They set up a water cannon outside the hotel where the Netanyahus are staying to prevent leftist rioters from getting near the premier and his family. On the face of things, the left’s…

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Tragedy on Yom Kippur – The Left Embraces Anti-Jewishness


In this week’s In Focus, I discussed two seemingly disparate, but deeply interconnected events: The leftist assault on Jews attempting to pray on the Eve of Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv, and other places throughout the country, and the establishment of a pseudo-academic institute in the U.S. – the Institute for the Study of Critical Zionism, whose purpose is to…

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What Iran’s Penetration of Washington Means


There is something terribly disturbing about the current state of Washington’s foreign-policy establishment. Tuesday we were hit with the blockbuster reports by Semafor and Iran International exposing the depth of Iran’s infiltration of the U.S. foreign-policy establishment and the Biden administration. The two simultaneously published reports revealed how beginning in 2014, Iran’s Foreign Ministry established a circle of agents in Washington and Europe, which…

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