Will any of the pro-#Hamas demonstrators rethink their positions following the brutal murders of Kfir and Ariel Bibas?

The Islamists know that hostages have value. From President Reagan trading arms for hostages held by Hezbollah in Lebanon, to the exchange of 1,027 ‘Palestinian’ terrorists — including Yahya Sinwar — for one captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit in October of 2011, the Islamic militants have realized that a few civilized Westerners have an outsized …

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President Trump Finally Catches Up to What We’ve Known for Years

I have been saying for years now that the Israelis should have expelled every last ‘Palestinian’ from Judea, Samaria, and Gaza following the 1967 conquest of the territory. It would have been a humanitarian disaster, but it would have been over 57½ years ago, leaving the Arabs with a chance to build their lives again …

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What! Is Bill Kristol Running Our Foreign Policy?

There was a no-win question asked on the fourth-grade playground at Mt Sterling Elementary School when I attended, back in the days of quill pens and inkwells: If you were up to your neck in [insert vulgar term for feces here], and someone threw a bucket of [insert slang term for urine here] at your …

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Palestine and The Nature of Things-George Mcclellan 

Palestinians, I was told, offer nothing to Jordanian society except hostility, conflict, and woe. Egypt, where I have twice been, has nothing but sneering contempt for the Palestinians and wants nothing to do with them.

Peaceably Exercising Their First Amendment Rights

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees to all of us both the freedom of speech and the right of peaceable assembly. With the truly idiotic pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas demonstrations which have broken out on college campuses, primarily in the more liberal areas, and the forcible resistance to them by college administrators, …

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Biden issues an ultimatum, but Netanyahu reveals a red line of his own

Days after the Israeli Defense Forces accidentally fired on a convoy of workers from the World Central Kitchen who were distributing food in Gaza last week, killing seven, President Joe Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by telephone. According to the White House readout of the call, Biden demanded that Israel “announce and …

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No One Wants to Live Next to a Landfill

I have long said that the conquering Israelis should have expelled every last Arab from the territories they conquered in the Six-Day War of 1967. It would have been a horrible humanitarian disaster, but such would have left the Jewish State with shortened, more defensible borders, and the displaced Arabs would not have been living …

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Why Do Western Liberals Refuse to See Hamas for What They Are, When the Terrorists Tell Us All About Themselves, Every Day

While the Islamists may lie to people for tactical reasons when it comes to their situation on the ground, they have been very honest about their policies and goals. What I cannot understand is how or why Western liberals just can’t believe them. Hamas has told the world that their goal is to expel all …

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Palestinians turning against Hamas as humanitarian crisis deepens

A poll released last month by the Arab World for Research and Development found that despite the brutality of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, nearly 60% of Palestinians surveyed, both in the West Bank and in Gaza, “very much supported” the action.

Why are Arab nations denying Palestinians the simplest solution of all?

Events of the past two months have highlighted an important truth: although Arab leaders have publicly condemned Israeli military operations in Gaza, they have no interest in allowing Palestinian refugees into their own countries.  Their unwillingness to offer refuge to their Palestinian brethren stands in stark contrast to actions taken by their European counterparts following …

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There Can Be No Negotiated Peace With the Palestinians

For a devout Catholic, it’s the (too short) trip of a lifetime. My older daughter, an Army Reservist currently deployed to the Middle East, has a four-day out-of-country pass, and I’m meeting her in Jerusalem. I told a couple of my fellow parishioners that I’d miss Mass next Sunday, but that actually means I’ll miss …

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