As the Israel-Hamas war grinds on, claiming yet more lives, Canadians are sharply divided over one explosive issue in particular. Should Canada, one of Israel’s best friends, support an immediate ceasefire? Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has so far declined to adopt this controversial position, knowing full well that a truce would benefit only Hamas, […]
As the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip rages, Emannuel Macron, the president of France, has been speaking from both sides of his mouth, undermining the clarity and sincerity of his vision. On a “solidarity” visit to Tel Aviv on October 24, just two weeks after Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israelis and foreigners in southern […]
The fallout from Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the fifth and most serious one in fifteen years, has spilled into university campuses in the United States. The discord, splintered with antisemitic shards, has spawned shouting matches, ignited threats of violence between students, and resulted in arrests. The tension coincides with a rising […]
The eighty fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom in Germany that signified a prelude to the Holocaust, was marked yesterday. Anders Ostergaard’s documentary, Winter Journey, a heart-wrenching account of Jewish displacement in Nazi Germany, touches on this castrophic event within the context of a German Jew’s flight from marginalization, torment and persecution in his […]
Surprise, surprise! Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian member of the U.S. Congress, hates Israel with a passion. What else is new on this crazy planet? Yesterday, as the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip escalated, she was censured by the House of Representatives for “promoting false narratives” and “calling for the destruction of the state […]
As they stormed through kibbutzim and towns in southern Israel on that horrendous day on October 7, Hamas terrorists/pogromists and a ragtag assortment of Palestinian civilians kidnapped 242 Israelis and foreigners, dragging them into the depths of the Gaza Strip as hostages. Apart from adults, they grabbed boys, girls and even babies. Never in its […]
I learned about it on the radio on the morning of November 4. Palestinian protesters in Toronto were planning to hold a rally in front of the U.S. consulate on University Avenue, one of the city’s main thoroughfares, on that Saturday afternoon. Advertised as the largest demonstration of its kind in Toronto since the October […]
Nations are sometimes compelled to fight for their very existence. Since the October 7 massacre of 1,400 Israelis and foreigners at the hands of Hamas, Israel has been fighting an existential war against a cruel enemy in the Gaza Strip. It is a war that could change the political landscape of the Middle East. Poland […]
Several days before Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was due to deliver his first speech on Israel’s current war with Hamas, commentators were abuzz with speculation that he might foolishly announce an escalation of Hezbollah’s low-intensity conflict with Israel along the Lebanese border. On November 3, much to Hamas’ disappointment, Nasrallah lowered the temperature, in accordance […]
To Israel’s detriment, global public opinion is shifting toward the Palestinians, nearly one month after Hamas ignited the fifth and most destructive border war in the Gaza Strip. Israel garnered a great deal of international sympathy in the wake of Hamas’ brutal attack on October 7, which claimed the lives of 1,400 Israelis and foreigners […]