One of the net effects of Hamas’ terrorist attacks in southern Israel on October 7 last year is a marked tilt toward extremism in the ranks of Palestinian activists in the Middle East and the United States. Surveys indicate that most Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank supported the massacre and no […]
Even a year later, the massacre of October 7 is still difficult to fathom. In just a matter of hours, 3,000 Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip penetrated the fortified border and killed about 1,200 civilians and soldiers in southern Israel in the single blackest day in Israel’s history. The Israelis who survived this atrocity […]
Donald Trump will no doubt dislike Ali Abbasi’s movie, The Apprentice, with a passion. Scheduled to open in Canadian theaters on October 11, this is a searingly scalding and compelling portrait of an egotistical and relentlessly ambitious New York City real estate tycoon reaching for the top. Focusing exclusively on his career before his foray […]
Lebanon is recklessly jeopardizing its sovereignty and its future as a nation, not to mention the safety of its citizens, by allowing Hezbollah to chart its destiny. Hezbollah, having fired thousands of rockets, missiles and drones at Israel since last October, is almost entirely responsible for Israel’s unavoidable decision to invade southern Lebanon on September […]
October 7, a day of infamy, has been seared into the hearts and minds of Israeli and Diaspora Jews, a catastrophe never to be forgotten. If October 6 seemed like a normal day in Israel, October 7 was radically and tragically different. Preceded by a massive rocket barrage, it was soaked by the blood of […]
Two days before the first anniversary of the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, Palestinians and their motley group of supporters gathered in downtown Toronto to celebrate the cause of Palestinian “resistance” to Israel’s very existence. Chanting incendiary slogans such as “Israel will soon be gone, free, free Palestine,” and waving Palestinian and Lebanese […]
The title of Nobody Wants This, a romantic comedy now streaming on Netflix, is ambiguous. It revolves around a liberal American rabbi who falls head-over-heels in love with a secular woman who happens to be a Christian but who is lukewarm toward organized religion. Given the interfaith nature of their relationship, viewers are bound to […]
The Middle East was on the abyss following two consequential events of immense magnitude — Israel’s incursion into Lebanon on September 30 and Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel less than a day later. In what was described as a limited and targeted operation, Israel invaded Lebanon for the third time in 46 years, following […]
Iran faces a defining moment of truth following Israel’s audacious assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on September 27. Nasrallah’s untimely death, a major castastrophe for Hezbollah, was an extremely severe blow to Iran. By all accounts, his removal from the scene elicited shock, anger and sorrow in Tehran. In one devastating stroke, […]
In the wake of Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, pro-Hamas Palestinian demonstrators and their supporters condemned Israel as a “colonial settler state.” This false and outrageous claim runs counter to a glaringly inconvenient fact: Jews are indigenous to the Middle East and lived in the Land of Israel long before the emergence of […]