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By properly going after Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria, the Israelis will be inviting a bonafide six-front war on themselves — and that does not include Iran. But the price for not is even greater.
In a battle of civilizations, Israel is fighting to show that a free and decent society can defend itself against barbarians who have virtually all the cards stacked in their favor.
The UN seems to be blaming Israel for the organization's own failures, a classic antisemitic ploy.
One cannot accept the Palestinian narrative without admitting the core destructive aim at its heart.
Tuesday's developments — a foiled assassination attempt and hundreds of Hezbollah pagers simultaneously exploding across Lebanon and Syria — are among a long list of remarkable Israeli operations.
Moses urged his congregation and its descendants to choose life and good over death and evil, that they may live and prosper and dwell in the land. His teachings are as relevant as ever.
What poses an enormous threat to Israel and the greater Western world is the complete and utter hypocrisy disguised as "liberalism" — what I call "fraudulent liberalism."
Historically there were no accurate warnings in advance of catastrophes. Only vague prophecies about human imperfections.
Much less has been reported in international media about the Israel-Hezbollah portion of this conflict. Soon, seemingly, it will replace the Israel-Hamas war as the Middle East's major conflict.
Bibi-hatred is a Rorschach of projected and internalized antisemitism.
No need to bother with facts or historical truths — why would you when you have a ready-made comparison to 20th-century South Africa?
The combination of a morally confused society, foreign propaganda, and social isolation has created a toxic environment in which extremism thrives.
The main Israeli security concept, the security triangle, includes three pillars: deterrence, intelligence warning, and battlefield decision.
Again, you are tasked with answering the poignant question: Do you hate us Jews more than you love yourselves?
We are often our own worst enemies, seeking to find favor with majority fashions or ideologies, while at the same time, we face campaigns from the outside to denigrate and disenfranchise Jews.
“They don’t want to talk about the conflict. They want to talk about investments, business, and economic opportunities, bilateral relations between Israel and their countries.”
And so does most of the mainstream liberal media.
The success of the Zionist project has placed Jews — both within and outside of Israel — in complex and oftentimes fraught positions.
The Jewish state has repeatedly conceded territory. The only result was more terrorism and more attacks on its citizens.