Qatar Supports Hamas and Gets Away with It
A safe haven, financial backer, and propagandist.
October 17, 2023
Hamas Isn’t Using Human Shields, but Human Sacrifice
Stopping Gazans from fleeing the war zone.
Ensconced in the safety of Doha, Gaza’s rulers—like their Hizballah allies in South Lebanon—have become expert at locating military assets in mosques, hospitals, kindergartens, and residential neighborhoods so as to use their most vulnerable subjects as human shields. This too is now the fate of the Israelis they have taken hostage. But Douglas Feith observes that Hamas’s strategy is even more sinister than that:
October 17, 2023
Hamas Isn’t Using Human Shields, but Human Sacrifice
Stopping Gazans from fleeing the war zone.
Do Jewish Lives Matter?
Western leftists are eager to stand up for oppressed people of all kinds, but not slaughtered Israelis.
Yiddish Literature’s Reckoning with Tragedy
And with the scope of Jewish, and human, existence.
“Rough Diamonds” Gets the Details of Hasidic Life Right, but Fails to Create Compelling Characters
Intrigues, tsuris, and Albanian gangsters.