05/16/2024
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant went behind Prime Minister Netanyahu’s back and joined forces with U.S. President Joe Biden to end the war. But Netanyahu fired back. Is this just political bickering, or is there something bigger taking place? What are the dangers to the government and the strategic stakes? I address these issues in IN FOCUS. All this and…
05/13/2024
This Yom Hazikaron, I spoke with bereaved mother Sarah Schwartz on losing her son, Segev Schwartz, on Oct. 7. Segev died fighting Hamas terrorists after they infiltrated southern Israel from the Gaza Strip and entered Kibbutz Sufa near the border. Sarah has been active these past seven months in pushing the Israeli government to finish Hamas in Gaza and not…
05/10/2024
Delegations to the Egyptian-hosted hostage negotiations left Cairo on Thursday night after talks collapsed. A member of the U.S. delegation led by CIA director Willian Burns briefed reporters that the talks failed “due to Israel’s operations in Rafah.” Under normal circumstances—circumstances that would see the United States siding with Israel in its demands for the release of all hostages, as…
05/09/2024
Biden’s halt on offensive weapons to Israel is of course a betrayal of Israel. But it is also a betrayal of American Jews. By standing with Hamas against Israel, Biden is telling the anti-Semitic rioters on campuses to keep up their assaults on Jews. I have details and updates on the state of the war in Gaza and the implications…
05/07/2024
After failed hostage negotiations with Hamas, Israel finally opened its operation to seize Rafah in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip. The Biden administration response: An arms embargo. What does all this mean for Israel and American Jews as we mark 80 years since the Holocaust? Details and answers on IN FOCUS.
05/03/2024
A few weeks ago, a sermon by Reform Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, the senior rabbi at the Steven Wise Free Synagogue in New York, shocked millions from that city to Tel Aviv. Standing at his pulpit, Hirsch delivered a stern warning to the Democrats. Noting that he is someone “who is finely attuned to American Jewish sentiment,” Hirsch told Democratic elected…
05/03/2024
Amidst the inferno of Jew hatred burning through more than a hundred American college campuses, President Biden continues to dither, progressive university administrators genuflect before the jihadist rioters and the Jews find themselves with no rights or protection. I analyze the nature of the campus mayhem, its connection to the war with Hamas in Gaza, and consider the implications moving…
04/28/2024
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is threatening to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Hertzi Halevy for war crimes in Gaza. Is Biden enabling this move? What is the real goal of the ruling and what can Israel do to fight back? I give…
04/26/2024
On Wednesday, hikers around the southern Israeli city of Arad discovered the remains of an Iranian ballistic missile from the April 13 overnight assault. Israel’s Channel 11 identified it as a Khader-1 missile. The Khader-1, like the Imad missiles, which Iran also used in its strike, are nuclear capable. The fact that Iran used two ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads…
04/21/2024
On the eve of Passover, Caroline discussed Israel’s counterassault against Iran, the administration’s plan to place an entire IDF unit under sanctions, and the lesson of the Exodus from Egypt for our times.