‘Friendly fire,’ that horrific oxymoron
The announcement Friday night that IDF troops had shot and killed three Israelis who had managed to escape Hamas captivity, pitched the nation into a despondency it had not known since October 7.
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The announcement Friday night that IDF troops had shot and killed three Israelis who had managed to escape Hamas captivity, pitched the nation into a despondency it had not known since October 7.
This war doesn’t end with an iconic photo of desert fighters gathered around a makeshift flagpole in Eilat and hoisting a hand-painted Israeli pennant.
Years of U.S. appeasement have failed. It’s time for a dramatic change of course.
It is clear beyond any doubt that Israel cannot agree to a ceasefire. A ceasefire means a victory for Hamas, which will immediately begin planning its next terrorist attack.
FBI Director’s warning that Hamas could inspire an attack in the US is a “very real threat”, says former Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren.
On Nov. 2, I had a wide-ranging conversation with former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren. We talked about his lifelong service to Israel, what he’s learned over the years, and how he is communicating about the current war against Hamas. The interview has been edited for clarity and length. — M.G.
Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren details ground operations expanding from the IDF
Hatred of Israel cannot be distinguished from hatred of the Jewish people. Incontestably now, anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
“We have removed with our own hand our most powerful weapon—the enemy’s fear of us. We have the power…but if we give in…we have opened the door to Israel’s destruction.”
Calls for action against Iran are merely calls. Needed urgently are concrete measures. MICHAEL OREN JUL 25, 2024 100 58 Share Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.S. Congress, July 24, 2024. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO) Subscribe “In the Middle East, Iran’s axis of terror confronts America, Israel and our Arab friends,” Israeli Prime Minister declared in the…
Reading the article, “Palestinians Cheer Carnage,” published in the throes of the Second Intifada twenty-two years ago, elicits far more than a déjà vu. It reminds me that the horrors of October 7 did not so much trigger a war as reignite one. It foreshadows the complex challenges Israel still faces in distinguishing civilians from…
This piece was originally published in The Times of Israel. In contrast to English, in which people who can’t get their bearings straight become disoriented—literally, they fail to find the east—in Hebrew, people ma’abedim et ha- tzafon, they lose the north. The distinction could not be more appropriate. With each day of mass displacement, deadly rocket and…
Hezbollah won’t accept a ceasefire unless Hamas does. Hamas will not agree to a ceasefire. Hence, Israel will go to war against Hezbollah. MICHAEL OREN JUL 03, 2024 58 20 Share This article originally appeared in the Times of Israel. US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the war between Israel and Hamas after meeting Prime…
Military Tactic, Media Strategy MICHAEL OREN JUN 20, 2024 78 84 Share This is Part II of a three-part series on the dilemmas posed by Israel’s Iron Dome. Read Part I here. Stay tuned for Part III. Israeli soldiers, above, this month watched the launch of an Iron Dome antimissile weapon designed to blast Hamas rockets…
Terrorist rockets rain on Israeli towns and villages. Tens of thousands are displaced, dozens killed, and vast swaths of territory are set ablaze. Sounds like the Gaza Envelope, the belt of Israeli communities bordering Gaza in the south — but it describes the reality in Israel’s north. Starting with Hamas’ invasion of Oct. 7, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon…
The Almost Impenetrable Dome MICHAEL OREN JUN 13, 2024 104 24 Share At 6:28 in the morning of October 7, 2023, the coral sky over the Nova dance festival was streaked with rockets. The largest single barrage in the history of Hamas’s bombardments of Israel—2,000 fired within an hour—spurred the police guarding Nova to stop the music…
Why Israel should NOT have a “day after plan” for Gaza DANIEL POMERANTZ JUN 06, 2024 59 6 Share On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Riyadh last month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and ministers from six Arab countries met to discuss a vision for the “day after” the war in Gaza.…
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