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 […]
The specter of a two-front war bleakly confronts Israel as it prepares to launch a massive invasion of the Gaza Strip in an attempt to topple the pro-Iranian Hamas regime, destroy its military infrastructure, capabilities and network of tunnels, and kill its leaders and foot soldiers. While Israel appears ready to deal Hamas a crushing […]
The catastrophic Israeli intelligence and military failure that enabled some 3,000 Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip to breach Israel’s security fence and kill 1,400 civilians, soldiers and policemen and abduct 199 hostages within a matter of hours will haunt Israel for decades to come. The October 7 attack was like a bolt out of […]