September 25, 2007

Feeding the Hand that Bites You

Two years ago, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon led his country in a fateful decision to "disengage" from Gaza, uprooting 8,500 Jewish residents, many born in Gaza and some domiciled there for nearly four decades.  Sharon did t...

July 23, 2007

Give War a Chance!

Two items in the batch of international news and commentary at the end of last week strike us as particularly noteworthy, justifying our recall in a new context of the title of P.J. O'Rourke's book.First, as the extremely well-connected Debka reports...

June 25, 2007

Hezbollah, Hamas, and Humanitarians

While most Middle East watchers know about the takeover of Gaza by Hamas and its transformation into the terrorist enclave of "Hamastan," readers of the mainstream press might be surprised to learn that Hezbollah is alive, thriving, and ste...

February 21, 2007

See Cynthia and Mohammad Play Tag Team

Last August, after the Lebanese/Hezbollah war on Israel ended, we observed the irony that one country sending troops to the new, purportedly more effective, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) mandated to keep the peace by ensuring the s...

November 27, 2006

The UN's Jew-Obsession

Every single day, hundreds of African tribesmen are killed in Darfur by militias acting with the blessing of Sudan's Arab Islamist government. Each day, Hamas bombs from Gaza deliberately target innocent Israeli civilians in Sderot: although the weap...