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May 23, 2025, 5:05 PM

How Israel can stop trying to defeat itself, and start trying to defeat its enemies

Remembering our dear departed sister and brother, Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, in this painful week for the Jewish people. May their memory be a blessing, may their loved ones be consoled, and may this kind of tragedy...

Stephen I. Siller

Feb 18, 2025, 12:10 AM

They Were Slaves in Gaza – Lessons from Exodus

Israel’s hostages were tortured by Hamas and slaves to Gazan families. Some Righteous Gazans may have protected some hostages from further harm. Hamas murdered Gazans suspected of cooperating with Israel. Are any “innocent” Gazans left? Exodus 12:12 tells us...

Jan 14, 2025, 8:35 PM

The tail that wagged the dog

Blinken was right to present his plan for the 'day after' in Gaza, but Bibi wouldn't hear of it. Maybe Trump's administration will actually manage to implement it

James M. Dorsey

Oct 25, 2024, 5:35 PM

Blinken touts problematic UAE plan for post-war Gaza

US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is jumping through hoops on his 11th Middle East tour in the past year. As he attempts to revive the stalled Gaza ceasefire talks and secure agreement on post-war arrangements in the Strip,...

Stephen I. Siller

Oct 3, 2024, 4:43 AM

Desperate People Are Doing More Desperate Things

My last blog said desperate Deep State actors would do desperate things. They have been hyperactive. Israel has been the target of incessant character assassinations, lawfare, bullets and missiles. President Trump has been the victim of the same kinds...

Sep 28, 2024, 4:05 PM

The Biden Doctrine: Never Actually Win

Ukraine. Iran. Hamas. Hezbollah. The Houthis... The enemy varies, but the Administration policy is mostly the same. And the same under Obama: Syria. ISIS. And Ukraine back then, too. We should call it the Biden Doctrine. And the Obama-Biden Doctrine. And...

James M. Dorsey

Aug 20, 2024, 3:21 PM

Multiple time bombs likely to threaten a Gaza ceasefire from day one

Gaza’s desperately needed but increasingly elusive ceasefire, if achieved, is likely to be fragile, threatened by multiple ticking time bombs that could explode at any given moment unless it is embedded in a political process that culminates with the...

Giovanni Giacalone

Aug 18, 2024, 9:05 PM

The “deal” with Hamas promoted by the US is a trap for Israel and it helps Iran

The new “deal” for a ceasefire in Gaza promoted by the US administration does not seem to include Israeli control over the Philadelphi corridor nor the presence of the IDF in central Gaza’s Netzarim corridor to prevent the return...

Jul 19, 2024, 8:48 AM

What Balaam and Blinken have in common—withholding the facts

Parashat Balak that we read this week tells how, after witnessing the overwhelming victory of the people of Israel over the Amorites, Balak, the king of Moab, was afraid that he and his people would be next. But instead...

Stephen I. Siller

Jul 5, 2024, 10:36 PM

Desperate people do and say desperate things

Democrats are doing and saying desperate things because they know Biden’s abysmal debate performance and Mrs. President’s baby talk afterwards cannot be fixed. Biden dropped a presidential bid in 1987 due to his lies and plagiarism that 37 years...

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