American Charities, and Even Tax Dollars, Are Funding Hamas
The government must crack down once again.
January 13, 2017
How Israel Is Containing the “Knife Intifada”
Social media and targeted retaliation.
Last weekend’s truck-ramming attack, which killed four Israeli soldiers, comes on the heels of more than a year of stabbings, car-rammings, and occasional shootings known in Arabic as the haba, or eruption. Consisting mainly of attacks by young people that require little advance planning or equipment, this wave of terror has been accompanied by thousands of incidents of mob-style violence. Nonetheless, the hopes of Hamas and some elements within the PLO that the haba will mushroom into a full-fledged third intifada have been unfulfilled, largely because Israel has found ways to respond systematically and without recourse to collective punishment. Violence is now on the decline, writes Ehud Yaari:
January 13, 2017
How Israel Is Containing the “Knife Intifada”
Social media and targeted retaliation.
America Still Needs Hard Power, and the Willingness to Use It
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
A Polish Rabbi’s Words to a Community Facing Nazism abroad and Anti-Semitism at Home
On the Edge of the Abyss.
For the Talmud, Divine Law Is Not Absolute Law
Authority without absolutism.