While the Gaza Strip trembles to the sounds of loud explosions, the West Bank smoulders with pent-up emotions of resentment and hatred. Gaza is being reduced to rubble by Israeli air and artillery strikes in retaliation for the murderous onslaught by Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on October 7. As Israel ramps up its daily […]
Twenty days into Israel’s border war with Hamas, Benjamin Netanyahu still has not accepted unequivocal responsibility for the appalling Israeli breakdowns that enabled hordes of blood- thirsty terrorists to slaughter 1,400 Israelis and foreigners in the greatest single massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Until yesterday, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister remained conspicuously and unacceptably silent […]
Guy Nattiv’s absorbing feature film, Golda, unfolds during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, but the issues that define it are related to Israel’s current conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli government was surprised by the coordinated offensives launched by Egypt and Syria in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights on October […]
The big unanswered question looming on the horizon following Hamas’ cold-blooded slaughter of 1,400 Israelis and foreigners in southern Israel on October 7 is deafeningly obvious. When will the Israeli armed forces invade the Gaza Strip in an attempt to crush Hamas? If Israel should launch a ground invasion, its objectives would be crystal clear: […]
Israel and the United States have warned Hezbollah, Iran’s supreme surrogate in the Middle East, to stay out of the current war pitting the Israeli armed forces against Hamas in and around the Gaza Strip. But for all intents and purposes, the war on the northern front already has begun. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant […]
Since Hamas’ genocidal massacre of 1,400 Israelis and foreigners in southern Israel on October 7, and Israel’s fierce counter-attack in the Gaza Strip, some American university professors have come out in fulsome praise of the surprise attack, extolling murder, rape and plunder. This is an astonishing, grave and totally unacceptable development that hardly augurs well […]
As the Gaza Strip war intensifies, threatening to spill over into Lebanon due to Hezbollah’s naked aggression along the Lebanese border, the Palestinians and their supporters have been scrambling to present plausible arguments that place Hamas and the Palestinian national movement in the best positive light. Their latest effort to buff up their image in […]
The current war in and around the Gaza Strip has brought out morally repugnant reactions from Palestinian students, their fellow travellers and academics on university campuses across Canada and the United States. In the wake of Hamas’ murderous rampage in southern Israel on October 7, which has so far claimed the lives of some 1,400 […]
Joe Biden, the president of the United States, was hailed as a “true friend” by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his unprecedented whirlwind visit to Israel yesterday. Netanyahu, whose relations with Biden deteriorated after he unveiled unwise and unpopular proposals to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, was absolutely correct. By visiting Israel during one of its darkest […]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi got two things very wrong in his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Cairo recently. First, he claimed that Israel has “exceeded” its right to self-defence in its ongoing military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Second, he said that Jews in Egypt have never been […]