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Dec 2, 2024, 10:59 AM

World Rues the Day It Lost the Concept of Genocide

It only took four days after the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire for the Middle East to rear its ugly head again. In a lightning raid that surprised almost everybody, Syrian rebels overran much of the country's second largest city, Aleppo, brushing...

Nov 23, 2024, 11:05 PM

Americans Remember Who and What We Are

In the weeks since the American people rejected the ruling Democrats and voted back into power Donald Trump, all parts of the Democratic Party have been pointing fingers, blaming each other for the electoral debacle. Some commentators on the...

Oct 22, 2024, 5:40 PM

Israel Becomes the Leader of the Free World

In the days before Yahiya Sinwar was killed by the IDF on October 17, curious voices were appearing in the West belying the narrative that Israel had become a pariah state. To rousing applause in the German Parliament, German...

Sep 30, 2024, 9:40 PM

Can the Arab World Survive Until 2079?

In 1979, two events took place which shook the Middle East to its core and still reverberate today. The first of course was the Iranian revolution. This swept out the authoritarian, often brutal pro-Western Shah of Iran and replaced...

Aug 29, 2024, 8:03 PM

Thanks to Israel and Ukraine, America Ascendant

The past few weeks have been very difficult for Russia’s Vladimir Putin. For the first time since World War II, Russia is being invaded by a foreign army. This also marks the first time that a non-nuclear power is...

Jun 23, 2024, 3:53 PM

Would Harriet Tubman Have Led the Israeli Hostage Rescue Mission?

During the years immediately preceding the start of the American Civil War in 1861, Harriet Tubman, the most famous leader of raids to free Black slaves, herself escaped from bondage in the South to freedom in the North. Once...

Jun 12, 2024, 2:00 AM

The IDF Becomes the ICJ’s Chief Enforcer

On Shabbat morning, June 8, 2024, the Israel Defense Forces became the enforcement arm of the International Court of Justice. Five months after ruling in Paragraph 85 of its opinion in the original South Africa case accusing Israel of...

Jun 5, 2024, 12:01 AM

Israel Burns, Greta Cheers

Massive Hezbollah bombing of Israel's north caused large forest fires to erupt, causing substantial damage. By early this week, the fires had consumed nearly 10,000 dunams (about 2,500 acres), with more rockets being fired daily into the hot, dry...

Apr 1, 2024, 11:18 PM

International law for thee but not for me

Why has the Court's call for the immediate and unconditional release of Israeli hostages gotten lost in the public discourse?

Mar 6, 2024, 8:41 AM

Israel, Gaza and the Pacific war in World War II

When the Japanese Imperial Air Force attacked the United States' Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941, they knew that Japan could not invade the United States and conquer it. What Japan could do, however, was...

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About Me

Daniel B, Markind is an attorney based in Philadelphia specializing in real estate, commercial, energy and aviation law. He is the former Chair of the National Legal Committee of the Jewish National Fund of America as well as being a former member of the National Executive Board and the National Chair of the JNF National Future Leadership. He writes frequently on Middle Eastern and energy issues. Mr. Markind lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife and children.

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