By: Sune Engel Rasmussen, Summer Said, Benoit Fauconand, and Stacy Meichtry – wsj.com – January 30, 2024 The attack, which Khamenei had publicly praised as an “epic victory,” marked a crescendo of four decades of Iranian efforts to train and arm a network of nonstate militant groups as a way to threaten its enemies and extend its influence in the Middle East....

“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” — George Santayana

By: Matthew Hennessey – wsj.com – November 1, 2023 Islamophobia is again the obsession of progressives and the media. “I know many of you in the Muslim-American community, the Arab-American community, the Palestinian-American community, and so many others, are outraged, saying to yourself, here we go again with Islamophobia and distrust we saw after 9/11,” President Biden said in his...

With one exception, nothing about Oct. 7 surprised me. The one exception was Israel’s unpreparedness.

As Hamas goes, so with it go many of the following related Western pretensions. The Passions of 9/11, Redux It has been 22 years since we saw crowds throughout the Middle East celebrating the murder…

By Elliot Kaufman – wsj.com – October 18, 2023 This has been confirmed independently by the Pentagon, according to President Biden and the National Security Council; by an intercept and drone and radarfootage released by the Israeli military; and perhaps most persuasively by looking at the hospital in daylight. The evidence indicates that a rocket launched by Palestinian Islamic Jihad...

“In every generation they arise to annihilate us.” That statement appears in the Haggadah, the book read from at the Passover Seder. The book is about 1,000 years old; the statement is more than 2,000 years old.

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – October 10,2023 Well-adjusted people do not learn of the largest single instance of antisemitic butchery since the Holocaust and muse about how intersectional the dead might have been. As is increasingly common in our remorselessly overcomplicated age, the coverage of Hamas’s extraordinarily brutal incursion into the nation of Israel has been sliced...

By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – October 15, 2023 After years of condemning ‘bothsidesism’ in Trump coverage, the press falls back on the approach to cover the slaughter of more than 1,300 people in Israel. The free press in the West, which has spent the past seven years warning of the dangers of “both sides” news coverage, insists now that there...

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – October 10, 2023 As is increasingly common in our remorselessly overcomplicated age, the coverage of Hamas’s extraordinarily brutal incursion into the nation of Israel has been sliced and diced along a whole host of convoluted lines. When describing the various players, commentators have set them against a series of ideological axes: Left...