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Nakba Redux: Palestinians Pay for Self-Inflicted Catastrophes, and Everyone Else Does, Too Dec. 03, 2024
The word that Palestinians use for the 1948 displacement of many of their forebears is "Nakba," Arab... Read More
Rooting for Middle Eastern Peace, But Not Betting on It Nov. 27, 2024
I stood next to the border between Israel and Lebanon on a hot day in the summer of 2008. When I app... Read More
Ignore No More: Iran's Regime Is Too Bad To Succeed Nov. 05, 2024
The Oct. 7, 2023 invasion of Israel by some 6,000 Hamas gunmen has changed America's political conve... Read More
Israel Needs Victory, Not a Ceasefire Oct. 08, 2024
A ceasefire may temporarily stop fighting, but it's overwhelming military victory that brings the po... Read More
First Anniversary of Ghastly Oct. 7 Attacks on Israel Is a Time To Reflect -- and To Make Amends Oct. 03, 2024
SAN DIEGO — And so we arrive at the first anniversary of the hideous Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by ... Read More
The Power of Victory Oct. 02, 2024
On Oct. 1, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched some 181 ballistic missiles at the state of Israel.... Read More
Last October's Surprise Attack by Hamas Was Israel's Pearl Harbor Oct. 02, 2024
In a surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes and submarines attacked American forces on Haw... Read More
Told-You-So Time: Iranian Inanity Comes Home to Roost Sep. 24, 2024
In June 2006, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was asked in Boston what the Democrats' plan was for de... Read More
The Oldest Hatred Roars Back Nov. 03, 2023
In one day of savagery, Hamas brought the world's oldest hatred into the mainstream. The upwelling o... Read More
How Many Hamas and Hezbollah Terrorists Have Crossed the Southern Border? Oct. 30, 2023
When then-FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in the House Judiciary Committee on May 9, 2012, Rep... Read More
How Many Hamas and Hezbollah Terrorists Have Crossed the Southern Border? Oct. 25, 2023
When then-FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in the House Judiciary Committee on May 9, 2012, Rep... Read More
Sheep And Black Sheep: The GOP Goes Full Hezbollah Feb. 08, 2022
There should be nothing surprising about this past Friday's official defense by the Republican Natio... Read More
Untruth And Consequences: The Hamas Caucus Gets It Wrong on Gaza Nov. 30, 2021
In his new book on last May's chapter of Hamas' long-running war against Israel, "Gaza Conflict 2021... Read More
Was the Soleimani Killing a Policy Success? Jan. 10, 2020
There's an old story — apocryphal, as the best stories always seem to be — that Richard ... Read More
The President Has the Authority to Repel Attacks, Not Start Wars Jan. 08, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's understanding of the constitutional authority of the president when it ... Read More
Will Bibi's War Become America's War? Aug. 27, 2019
President Donald Trump, who canceled a missile strike on Iran, after the shoot-down of a U.S. Predat... Read More
Reining in the Rogue Royal of Arabia Nov. 14, 2017
If the crown prince of Saudi Arabia has in mind a war with Iran, President Trump should disabuse his... Read More
A Chaotic Middle East, 10 Years Later Aug. 10, 2016
Ten years ago this summer, Hezbollah militants kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. The incident triggere... Read More
Realism in Fighting the Islamic State Nov. 22, 2015
After a bloody series of terrorist attacks, the natural impulse is to respond with overwhelming forc... Read More
Sestak's Attempt To Suppress Speech Jul. 19, 2010
The story goes that after New Times magazine labeled Virginia Sen. William L. Scott the country's &q... Read More
