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Apr 26, 2024, 10:01 AM

If I Were Sinwar’s Speechwriter (Part II) . . ..

. . . . I thank the Merciful that I am not. But if I were, it would sound like this -- My Brothers and Sisters of Palestine!! And Brothers and Sisters of our jihad around the world!! “I speak to you...

Apr 15, 2024, 8:28 PM

Highlights from the Biden ‘Small Incursion’ Doctrine

Biden to Putin: Don’t. Biden to Putin: Warning you – Sanctions! Biden to Putin: But nothing serious over a “small incursion.” Biden to Iran: Don’t. Biden to Iran (again): Don’t. Or do it “within certain limits.” Biden to Israel (after Iran did): Don’t. Biden to...

Feb 20, 2024, 2:02 PM

If I were Sinwar’s speechwriter . . .

. . . Thank God the Merciful that I am not. But if I were, on the day Biden and Blinken unveil their “day after” peace plan, it would sound like this -- “My dear Brothers and Sisters of Hamas, and...

Feb 17, 2024, 12:25 AM

Marwan MANDELA? Hardly. That’s like electing Terry Nichols president.

Remembering 1995. Terry Nichols conspired with Timothy McVeigh in blowing up the federal building in Oklahoma, killing 168 innocents. Their dramatic way to petition the government for redress of their grievances. McVeigh was executed. Nichols is serving multiple life sentences. What brings...

Jan 30, 2024, 7:54 PM

Of Ceasefire, Negotiations, Frogs, Turtles and Scorpions

In the ancient fable (somewhat adapted), a frog prepares to swim across a the river. A scorpion, too, wants to get to the other side and so, since it cannot swim, asks the frog to carry it across on...

Jan 26, 2024, 11:05 PM

A ‘Two-State Solution’ Comes Not From Oslo. It Can Only Come Through Potsdam.

A profound flaw and fallacy of the United States government’s policy is its starry-eyed clinging to the notion of a “two state solution,” the gauzy dream of the Oslo Accords. In 1993, Israel agreed to trade “land for...

Jan 25, 2024, 9:20 PM

Free (and Unsolicited) Advice from America’s ‘Secretary of Deference’

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is back in Israel today, reprising his sermon that better “protecting” Gazan civilians should be the “strategic imperative” for Israel’s military campaign. His message echoes his comments last December (see the New York Times...

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