Bashar al-Assad Is Using Chemical Weapons Again. Will the U.S. Avert Its Gaze?
Last year’s airstrike worked, but only for a time.
February 8, 2018
Bashar al-Assad Is Using Chemical Weapons Again. Will the U.S. Avert Its Gaze?
Last year’s airstrike worked, but only for a time.
For some time after the U.S. struck a Syrian airbase last April—in retaliation for the use of chemical weapons—Bashar al-Assad’s forces refrained from using poison gas. But in the past few weeks Damascus has fired chlorine gas-filled rockets at civilian neighborhoods at least six times. Noah Rothman asks if the Trump administration will once again enforce its red line:
February 8, 2018
Hamas Is Rebuilding Its West Bank Infrastructure
The carefully planned murder of Raziel Shevach was the work of skilled terrorists.
Why Looney Anti-Semites Remain Respectable
Lawrence Wilkerson thinks the Jews are manipulating the country into war with Iran.
Céline’s Rehabilitation, from Nazi Collaborator to Distinguished Novelist
And what to do with great artists who used their pens for evil purposes.
A Czech Synagogue Tries to Reconstruct the Library of Its Great 17th-Century Rabbi
Shabbetai ha-Kohen’s books.