Syria Forfeited Its Claims to the Golan Heights When It Used Them to Attack Israel
Recognition of Israeli sovereignty upholds the international order.
March 28, 2019
The Israeli Response to Recent Rocket Attacks Marks a Strategic Shift
No longer playing by Hamas’s rules.
For the past several years, Jerusalem’s approach to Hamas—as well as to Islamic State and other jihadist groups—can be summed up in the phrase “quiet will be met with quiet.” In other words, the IDF will retaliate swiftly after any attacks, but refrain from action so long as its enemies do the same. Israel seems to have changed its tune, however, in responding to Monday’s rocket attacks by continuing to strike targets in Gaza even after Hamas declared a ceasefire and de-escalated. Ron Ben-Yishai writes:
March 28, 2019
The Israeli Response to Recent Rocket Attacks Marks a Strategic Shift
No longer playing by Hamas’s rules.
The French Legal System Tries to Blame Sarah Halimi’s Murder on Marijuana Rather Than Anti-Semitism
Radical Islam or reefer madness?
A Hasmonean-Era Village Discovered in Jerusalem
Evidence of one of the city’s golden ages.
A Poet’s Lament for Poland’s Lost Shtetls
Post-Holocaust towns populated by biblical ghosts.