The Myth of America’s Middle East Malfeasance
The region’s rulers have not been hapless pawns.
June 4, 2018
Hamas’s Aims in Gaza
And the moral case for Jewish exercise of power.
After seizing control of the Gaza Strip, Hamas resorted to rocket attacks and then to building tunnels through which to attack Israeli civilians. Elliott Abrams contends that now, in response to the IDF’s successful countermeasures against these attacks, the Islamist group has sought a new tactic—namely, the recent combination of infiltrations and demonstrations. In the debut episode of the new podcast Kikar, Abrams explains Hamas’s strategy, and the moral and prudential concerns that inform Israel’s response. (Interview by Jonathan Silver. Audio, 20 minutes. Information for download and streaming can be found at the link below.)
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Hamas’s Aims in Gaza
And the moral case for Jewish exercise of power.
The Campus Intersectionality Craze Makes Jews Uniquely Vulnerable
The weak versus the Jew.
The Refusenik Who Took Photographs of Life in the Gulag
And was a record-breaking sniper.
The Not-Quite-Lost Languages of Iraqi Jewry
And their literary history.