The Latest Summit Was a Win for Israel
The IDF won’t withdraw until Hamas lays down its weapons.
December 31, 2025
Beware the Peacemongers
“On that day, making peace with Israel will be as easy as it is now impossible.”
Today’s selection from the essays of the late Norman Podhoretz was published in October 2001, a year after the outbreak of the second intifada, and bears the delicious title “Oslo: The Peacemongers Return.” In it, he examines the reasons for the collapse of the peace process, counters those who were already trying to rewrite its history (including the familiar duo of Hussein Agha and Robert Malley), and seeks to explain Yasir Arafat’s calculations:
December 31, 2025
What the U.S. Gains from Its Alliance with Israel
Technology, and a crucial partnership for the next global confrontation.
Beware the Peacemongers
“On that day, making peace with Israel will be as easy as it is now impossible.”
The First Jewish Intellectual
Naftali Herz Wessely’s Enlightenment.
Jews and American Whiskey, from George Washington’s Time to the Present
It all started in Kentucky.