Column
The podcaster and the late Charlie Kirk were wrong to refuse to cut ties with Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens. This failure is poisoning American conservatism.
The backbone of financial mechanisms and industrial sectors in Israel has not collapsed, but it has been battered, bruised and burdened.
The president’s plan could end the fighting in Gaza and free the remaining hostages. But it depends on a belief that Israel’s foes are willing to give up their genocidal fantasies.
As Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly, Hamas, a genocidal terrorist organization, is given a pass, while Israel is accused of committing “genocide.”
In his meeting with Trump, Netanyahu embraced compromise not as weakness but as the virtue of the strong.
Many nations cast their votes not on the basis of what is right or wrong, or what is just or unjust, but according to their narrow interests.
It’s not true that the leaders in Gaza and Ramallah “never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” They take every opportunity to kill and turn the world against Jews.
By defying an antisemitic United Nations, Netanyahu wasn’t harming Israel or endangering Jews. No matter what you think about him, in that moment, he stood up for the truth.
The American president sees Gaza as the central battlefield in which his strategy for world peace will be tested.
He understands very well that the best way to blunt accusations of antisemitism is to assemble a group of Jewish sycophants around him.
The president’s instincts on the United Nations and “Palestine” are correct. But his Gaza plan, cooked up by Jared Kushner and Tony Blair, is as misguided as other schemes.