The Strike on Syria Has Larger Implications
Donald Trump saved more lives than Barack Obama did in all his years in office.
April 10, 2017
Islamic State Borrows a Tactic from Hamas
The dead-baby strategy.
Video footage recently obtained by the American military reportedly shows Islamic State (IS) fighters in Mosul forcing civilians into buildings—not to use them as human shields, but in the hope that these civilians will be killed by U.S. troops or their allies, thus generating outrage that will, in turn, discourage further attacks. As Evelyn Gordon notes, this practice, dubbed the “dead-baby strategy” by Alan Dershowitz, was pioneered by Hamas:
April 10, 2017
Islamic State Borrows a Tactic from Hamas
The dead-baby strategy.
Egypt’s Awkward Reset with the U.S.
President Sisi returned to Cairo with little to show besides a big hug.
Erez Bitton and the North African Poetic Awakening
The Homer of Lod.
Who Knows “Uno”? The Many Sephardi Versions of a Passover Song
And the traditional importance of Maimonides’ principles of faith.