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 […]
At this grave moment in Israel’s history, when its very existence as a sovereign nation is being frontally challenged by Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, the former president of the United States committed an egregious error. Donald Trump, still the frontrunner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, foolishly chose to air personal grievances instead of coming […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to Hamas’ ferocious terrorist attack on Israel last week, the worst in Israeli history, has left the Israeli government bitterly disappointed and most likely disillusioned. Neither Putin nor Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have directly condemned Hamas nor have they phoned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express their condolences for the […]
This was not just another run-of-the-mill speech by a politician, but a major address of historic and heart-warming proportions. Speaking to the Bundestag on October 11, four days after a large Hamas force of terrorists from the Gaza Strip ruthlessly attacked towns, kibbutzim and a music festival in southern Israel, murdering some 1,300 Israelis and […]
Since Israel’s declaration of war on Hamas last week, the United States has come through with flying colors in terms of its strong and unambiguous political and military support for its greatest ally in the Middle East. Within hours of Hamas’ murderous rampage in southern Israel, which so far has claimed the lives of 1,300 […]
Within days of the launch of Israel’s ongoing counter-offensive in the Gaza Strip, following the unprecedented savagery committed by cold-blooded Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on October 7, insistent calls were heard from a variety of quarters about the urgent necessity for a truce to stop the fighting. “We call on the Palestinian and Israeli […]