Tag: oct.7
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Opinion | Give Yahya Sinwar the Eichmann Treatment
[ad_1] Two top Palestinian commanders—Hezbollah’s Wissam Hassan Al-Tawil and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri—were both killed over the past two weeks in suspected Israeli airstrikes. Hamas’s figurehead and the suspected mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, Yahya Sinwar, is still at large, but it’s fair to assume he is high on Israel’s list of targets. After the…
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Opinion | Blocking the Road Is Civil Terrorism
[ad_1] The anti-Israel demonstrators who have blocked traffic in major cities across the country know that their victims are decent people. There is little risk that the drivers who can’t get to their jobs, families and other obligations will run them over because those drivers are careful to avoid harming others and breaking the law—even…
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Opinion | IDF Faces a Harsh Reality in Southern Gaza
[ad_1] Khan Younis, Gaza What is happening in southern Gaza—and as important, what isn’t happening—threatens to leave the Middle East violently unstable for years. The battle for Khan Younis is forcing Israel to face a harsh reality: Hamas likely won’t be totally annihilated. And Israel’s two goals, killing Hamas’s leaders and rescuing all the hostages,…
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Opinion | The True Face of the Anti-Israel Movement
[ad_1] The response in anti-Israel circles to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre has been clarifying. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), the tip of the spear on U.S. campuses, early on called the slaughter “a historic win for Palestinian resistance.” The tune hasn’t changed, even from the leaders pressuring President Biden. Nihad Awad, executive director of…
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Opinion | Israel Faces Pressure to Yield to the ‘Terrorist Veto’
[ad_1] There is a tension between Israel’s two objectives of eliminating Hamas as a political and military force and recovering the innocent civilians kidnapped on Oct. 7. Weighing these competing priorities, Israel decided to pause its anti-Hamas military campaign in exchange for the return of some hostages. This policy’s wisdom is debatable. A greater hazard,…
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Opinion | The Proxy Wars Take to the High Seas
[ad_1] Houthi rebels seized an Israel-linked ship in mid-November. There may be more maritime terrorism. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | Hamas Holds Everyone Hostage
[ad_1] The civilized world is rejoicing at the release of hostages by Hamas, especially the sight of young children reunited with parents after seven weeks of hell. But that relief shouldn’t blind us to the way the jihadists are manipulating human sentiment to achieve their terrorist aims. The killers are releasing a dozen or so…
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Opinion | Uncivil Servants: Foreign Policy Bureaucrats Target Israel
[ad_1] The Biden administration faces a wave of internal dissent against its support of Israel. On Nov. 14, more than 500 staff members and political appointees from about 40 government agencies sent a joint letter to President Biden criticizing his administration’s policy on the Gaza war, according to the New York Times. It was the…
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Opinion | The West Should Welcome Gaza Refugees
[ad_1] By Danny Danon and Ram Ben-Barak Hamas’s unprovoked terrorist attack on Oct. 7 has endangered not only Israel but the more than two million people who live in the Gaza Strip. Although Hamas won 2006 elections in Gaza and took control of the area from the Palestinian Authority the following year, the group has…
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Opinion | How Hamas Won Hearts and Minds on the American Left
[ad_1] Support for Hamas on college campuses and in city streets has shocked Americans. But we shouldn’t be surprised. It’s the fruit of an influence campaign dating back at least 30 years. In October 1993, the Federal Bureau of Investigation wiretapped a Philadelphia hotel room where a dozen senior Hamas members—some of them U.S.-based—had gathered.…
