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.…
(Courtesy) Editor’s Note: On December 11, 2023, Clarity published “The One Simple Question That Determines Everything: Part I,” the first section of a two-part guest piece by Professor Andrew Pessin on October 7 and its reception across college campuses. In “‘One Simple Question’ Revisited,” Professor Pessin details the intellectual and personal costs of campus antisemitism…
Seventy-six years ago today a single act of courage may have saved the newborn state of Israel MICHAEL OREN MAY 29, 2024 2 Share Thirty years ago, pursuing a lifelong dream, I wrote a film script. It told the story of the legendary British general, Orde Wingate. The father of guerrilla warfare, Wingate was…
This guest post from Amelia Adams was originally published on her Substack, Inside the Mind of a Neurotic Jewish Gay In the wake of pro hama–sorry, pro “resistance” rallies and encampments, it seems that everyone’s jaws are on the floor. People just cannot believe that US college students are aligning themselves with terrorist regimes. Boomers scratch their heads while…
This article is an adaptation of a Hebrew article which appeared in Israel Hayom. Missile launched during Iranian military exercise (Reuters) Subscribe While adamantly opposing Israel’s incursion into Rafah, withholding the supply of both vital munitions and intelligence to the IDF, the United States is also offering incentives. If Israel refrains from the Rafah operation, the…
This Memorial Day, as in years past, I attended the official ceremony at the military cemetery in Ashdod. My presence there was both semi-official and personal. Subscribe Hadas Malka, Jan 16, 1994-Jun 16, 2017 (Courtesy) I proudly serve as president of the Hadas Malka Foundation that assists the needy and bereaved families of the Israel Border Police.…
This Holocaust Remembrance Day, commentated in the shadow of the largest single massacre of Jews since World War II, is especially unbearable. We must once again question the ability of words to convey the unspeakable and of the willingness of people to listen. A version of this article originally appeared in The Atlantic. The Many Holocausts…
