The Column
Order requires the defeat not only of an armed force, but of the ideology and power structures that sustained it.
Why propose giving up what is, in effect, heavily subsidized access to the world’s best weapons and integration with the U.S. defense ecosystem?
President Trump’s demand that Denmark sell the Arctic land mass is dismissed as megalomania. That said, Europe’s dependence on America raises questions about NATO.
Israel, like Judaism, promotes the directive to “be fruitful and multiply.” But that doesn’t mean the government is responsible for raising our children.
Tyrannies do not change their nature because Western leaders wish them to.
Not everyone discerns it immediately. Sometimes, a little prompting is in order.
Much of the international community has clung to the fiction that Hamas and Fatah are different—that Hamas is irredeemably extremist, while Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority, is flawed but pragmatic.
The Pennsylvania governor’s shocking story about Kamala Harris’s aides asking him if he was an Israeli double agent is the first shot fired in a battle to save his party’s soul.
Canceling his performances in Israel over Netanyahu’s treatment of the “whole Palestinian issue,” the venerated conductor hypocritically asserts that music can’t be separated from politics.
The streets are quiet in the Islamic Republic, but the regime is not safe. History shows that patience, not panic, decides Middle East battles.
The president’s tough talk won’t suffice if the administration passes on an opportunity to topple the mullahs and chooses to let Hamas survive.
As the massacre of protesters continues, Iran’s leaders revive a propaganda playbook to deny crimes, shift blame and delay international action.