Putin and Obama destabilize Mideast
The S-300 air defense systemNews item:The Russian president has repealed the ban prohibiting the delivery of S-300 missile air defense systems to Iran, according to the Kremlin’s press service. The ban...
View ArticleWest will share responsibility for devastation of south Lebanon
Recently we’ve been hearing — both from Hezbollah and Israel — about the massive installations the terrorist group has been building just across the Lebanese border with Israel, and what will happen...
View ArticleIsrael hits back in infowar
Near Israel/Gaza border, July 18, 2014Israel’s government seems to finally be waking up to the fact that it can’t allow our name to be blackened without challenge. In response to the anticipated...
View ArticleWe’re not on the verge of war — yet
Someone recently asked me if I thought we would be at war again soon. Not just Gaza, but the big one — Hizballah and Iran. As the West’s red lines crumble, it’s a forgone conclusion that Iran can have...
View ArticleA world without Israel
Israel’s Independence wasn’t a foregone conclusion in 1948. Embargoed by the US and Britain, Israel was able to buy arms from Czechoslovakia, both before and after the communist coup in February, until...
View ArticleHope is the enemy
It is 24 days since the murder of Eitam and Na’ama Henkin, the event which is considered the beginning of the ongoing “stabbing (shooting, burning, running over) intifada.”Last night there was a...
View ArticleHow to end the intifada — for good
Chart posted on Facebook showing where to best stab a JewAlthough the perpetrators of the recent terrorist incidents are mostly young people not associated with terror organizations whose actions are...
View ArticleYou can’t win the war you don’t fight
This can’t be allowed to continue.Yesterday there was another fatal stabbing at Etzion junction, a place which has seen several murders and countless terror attacks. A beautiful young woman, Hadar...
View ArticleDefensive weapons and the strategy of preemption
A test launch of the Arrow-3This week the new medium-range anti-missile system called “David’s Sling” was declared operational, and is expected to be deployed in 2016. It will join the existing Iron...
View ArticleIt’s a MAD, MAD world
Si vis pacem, para bellum [he who desires peace, prepare for war] – VegetiusAnyone older than about 30 remembers the “balance of terror,” or in academic terms, the doctrine of Mutually Assured...
View ArticleCrying in Tehran
Anyone who has ever tried to babysit a group of Israeli kids knows the expression translated as “this will end in crying.” Sometimes you just know that there will not be a good ending for certain kinds...
View ArticleTolerance and terrorism
So there was a bloody terrorist attack – two bloody terrorist attacks – in Brussels on Tuesday. Dozens murdered, more injured seriously. The Islamic State took responsibility, and threatened more...
View ArticleWestern morality and Islamic jihad
Two Palestinian terrorists stabbed and moderately injured a member of Israel’s Kfir brigade in Hevron Thursday. One was killed immediately; the other was lying wounded on the ground.Some time later the...
View ArticleDon’t give the fox the keys to the henhouse
The Oslo accords divided Judea and Samaria into areas A, B and C. Area C, where most settlements and few Arabs are, was placed under complete Israeli control. Area B, strategic areas with large Arab...
View ArticleTo thine own people be true, Israel
I read in today’s [Wednesday] newspaper that Israel will be building a sophisticated barrier along the border with Gaza. Sensors, underground walls and who knows what secret systems to detect tunneling...
View ArticleHow Western ideology empowers the jihad
The US military made news recently when it adopted the Israeli tactic of ‘roof knocking’ – detonating a small explosion above a building that is about to be bombed in order to give civilians that may...
View ArticleHow to bring peace to Gaza
Hamas continues to prepare for war. It’s a matter of when, not if.In the news this week was a report that Israel foiled an attempt to smuggle tons of ammonium chloride into Gaza. It can be used for...
View ArticleSacrifice and independence
Wednesday is Israel’s day of remembrance for fallen soldiers. More than 23,000 military personnel have died in Israel’s wars (including military actions before the founding of the state), and about...
View ArticleAdjusting the Moral Compass, Part II
…European universalist ethics no longer promotes the survival of cultures that espouse it in the environment that is present-day Europe. We certainly see in present-day Europe all of the above...
View ArticleLessons from the schoolyard
When I was about 12 years old, I got into one of those schoolyard fistfights. Surrounded by a circle of boys cheering us on and hoping for as much blood as possible before a teacher noticed, we threw...
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