The Houthis remain undaunted and unbowed, much to Israel’s ire and frustration. This pro-Iranian, ideologically-driven, and stubborn militia in Yemen continues to fire missiles and drones at Israel despite sixteen Israeli retaliatory air and drone strikes since last summer. These have targeted critical infrastructure such as ports, power stations, oil refineries, and northern Yemen’s only […]
The United Nations has finally woken up to the reality that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) is little more than a white elephant that should be retired to pasture. Acting on this realization, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on August 28 to terminate UNIFIL’s peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon by […]
October 7, 2023, a day of infamy when hordes of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel in an unprecedented attack, was Marsha Lederman’s “last normal night.” Lederman is a child of Holocaust survivors from Poland who grew up haunted by nightmares of being hunted by Nazis. This “ludicrous, irrational fear came to life” as Hamas gunmen wreaked […]
Australia’s bold decision to expel Iranian diplomats and break diplomatic relations with Iran over its involvement in antisemitic attacks in Australian cities since 2023 is a jolting reminder that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a rogue regime capable of anything. Its attempt to create chaos and discord in a Western democratic nation, where Jews […]
Israel, sporadically over the years, has been the object of fierce and unrelenting international criticism, but the global opprobrium Israel is currently facing appears to be unprecedented. Israel’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982 aroused widespread anger. The third cross-border war between Israel and Hamas in 2014 created an uproar that caused reputational harm to Israel. […]
On January 25, 2011, the Los Angeles-based journalist and publisher Elio Zarmati received a phone call from an old friend in Switzerland he had grown up with in Egypt. Their conversation was about the popular uprising, centered in and around Cairo’s Tahrir Square, that had erupted in Egypt and would lead to the resignation of […]
Canonized by the Vatican in 1992, five decades after he was murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe was by all accounts a saintly man and a proud Pole. He was incarcerated in Auschwitz in May 1941, when virtually all of its inmates were Polish political prisoners and its image as […]
Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure to either end or escalate the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. The nearly two-year war, the longest in Israel’s history, has torn the country asunder. While the majority of Israelis have called for an immediate ceasefire to facilitate the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza, Netanyahu, backed […]
Germany, in 1941, launched a vigorous propaganda campaign to curry favor with Muslims in the Middle East, the Balkans, Crimea and the Caucasus, territories the German army had conquered or intended to capture. Two of Germany’s major allies, Italy and Japan, made similar efforts to recruit Muslims on their side during World War II. Germany’s […]
Israel has taken a giant leap forward to ensure that a two-state solution remains a two-state illusion. Several days ago, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced that 3,000 housing units would be built in the E1 tract of land between Jerusalem and the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. This ambitious project “buries the idea of a Palestinian […]