Column
The current government is not unblemished, but it could be and has been worse.
The administration’s apology to Arab-Americans about its support for the effort to eradicate Hamas is a betrayal of Israel.
The president has been paying a political price for supporting Israel since Oct. 7. But the smears of Israeli actions are only encouraging Hamas and fueling antisemitism.
A far-left French conundrum: It’s hard to understand how someone could be moved by the cries of a frail, elderly Jewish woman in police custody, yet dismiss the horrors of Oct. 7.
Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell’s insistence that the Jewish state would get nothing unless Ukraine got far more killed the remains of the bipartisan pro-Israel consensus.
Strikes on Iranian allies after three U.S. soldiers were killed are unlikely to deter future terrorist attacks. The post-Oct. 7 world was in part created by Washington’s feckless incompetence.