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…
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…