Facing Iranian Attack, America Stands Down
How Tehran is supporting Hamas in Iraq.
October 26, 2023
Qatar Plays Both Arsonist and Firefighter
Funding hostage-taking while negotiating hostages’ release.
While Iran may be Hamas’s main provider of weapons, training, and strategic cooperation, Qatar gives it funds, a base of operations, and diplomatic cover. But yesterday, Tsachi Hanegbi—the Israeli national-security advisor and a Likud-party veteran—took to social media to praise Qatar as an “essential . . . stakeholder in the facilitation of humanitarian solutions,” a reference, at least in part, to Doha’s role in the release of four of Hamas’s hostages, and its attempts to negotiate the freeing of others. Hanegbi was quickly lambasted by the former prime minister Naftali Bennett. Benny Avni explains why:
October 26, 2023
Qatar Plays Both Arsonist and Firefighter
Funding hostage-taking while negotiating hostages’ release.
The Condescension and Moral Bankruptcy of Hamas’s Western Cheerleaders
“Men butchered legions of people in your name. Hooray for them and hooray for you!”
A Forgotten Episode of Holocaust-Era Heroism
And the anti-Semitic Polish writer who backed it.
Medieval Spain’s Great Jewish Historian
Abraham Ibn Daud and his Book of the Tradition.