06/09/2024
Northern Israel suffered massive fires this week as Iran’s Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, relentlessly bombed towns, military installations, crops, grazing grounds and nature preservers with rockets and missiles. At this point, a ground war in Lebanon seems both imminent and imperative to restore Israeli control over the Galilee and Golan Heights. In the latest IN FOCUS, I discuss two of the major…
06/09/2024
Tragedy strikes over the weekend as the war against Hamas claims 11 soldiers’ lives; the IDF announces a pause in fighting to deliver humanitarian aid in Rafah and Israel’s entrenched and failed military leadership tells the people to take a win and go home.
06/03/2024
After Shabbat began in Israel on Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden presented a ceasefire deal which he claimed was Israel’s proposal. In the latest IN FOCUS, I went through Biden’s speech line by line, to figure out if this is Israel’s proposal or Hamas’s proposal.
05/31/2024
The most basic function of all governments is to provide for the collective defense of the governed. The most basic foundation of sovereignty is a state’s right to defend its country from aggression. Take away a state’s right to self-defense, and you’ve effectively transformed it into a non-sovereign state. Six Biden administration actions and policies subvert Israel’s right to self-defense.…
05/28/2024
On May 20, I was honored to give the keynote address at the Israel Guys’s conference in Nashville, TN. The Israel Guys are an amazing group from the Yovel Foundation which brings Christian Zionists to Judea and Samaria to help with agriculture in Jewish farms and ranches in the area. Here is my address.
05/27/2024
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, immorally and illegally decided that the Iranian-back Hamas terror organization and the State of Israel are one and the same; leftist Israelis once again misread public opinion; and a reservist in the Israel Defense Forces was arrested for demanding victory over terror. Unequal justice anyone? All the details on IN FOCUS.
05/23/2024
Israelis have long viewed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as an ally in the fight against the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran. Sisi, after all, led the Egyptian military in overthrowing Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood government of then-president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. Since the Hamas regime in Gaza played a key role in ousting former President Hosni Mubarak from power and assisting…
05/22/2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s initial response to International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan’s announcement that he intends to issue international arrest warrants against Israel’s leaders was brief and to the point: “The international arrest warrants won’t deter me. This is a political, biased decision. It is a disgrace and a shame. We will continue on until victory.” Netanyahu’s…
05/20/2024
Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz delivered an ultimatum to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that if accepted will inevitably lead to Hamas returning to the Gaza Strip, an unsolved crisis on the country’s northern border and instability within the Jewish state. I provide all the details on IN FOCUS
05/19/2024
There was a comical aspect to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant’s press appearance on Wednesday night. With his best imitation of Patton, he sternly demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abandon Israel’s war aims and instead adopt America’s, which happen to be Hamas’s war aims as well. “I urge Prime Minister Netanyahu to make this decision and proclaim that…