An American Retreat from Syria Will Bring Disaster
Repeating Barack Obama’s mistakes.
December 21, 2018
An American Retreat from Syria Will Bring Disaster
Repeating Barack Obama’s mistakes.
In the last days it has been confidently reported that the U.S. will withdraw all of its forces from Syria—effectively handing the country over to Russia and Iran, except for a small portion that might remain under Turkish influence. The president himself declared on Twitter, “We have defeated Islamic State in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump presidency.” But, writes Noah Rothman, Islamic State (IS) is not defeated, and a precipitous American withdrawal will likely have the same consequences as Barack Obama’s precipitous withdrawal from Iraq:
December 21, 2018
Hamas Can’t Disrupt Flights to Tel Aviv—Unless the West Cooperates
A lesson from 2014.
Zionism Is about a Nation, Not about a Race
The mistake of comparisons with either black nationalism or white supremacism.
The Conclusion of the Joseph Story Helps Explain Rabbinic Teachings about Repentance
Changing the past.
The Neo-Hasidism of Hillel Zeitlin
A universalist doctrine for the modern era.