The UN Human Rights Council Reaches a New Height of Absurdity
Blacklisting companies that do business in the West Bank.
December 5, 2017
Israel, America, and Never-Ending War
Lessons of the Punic Wars.
The Jewish state has been engaged in sporadic warfare with its Arab neighbors, in various combinations, since 1947, while the U.S. has been fighting its war on terror since 2001 (and al-Qaeda began fighting the U.S. several years prior). Comparing these seemingly interminable wars with such historic conflicts as the Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage (264-146 BCE) and the Hundred Years War between France and England (1337-1453), Victor Davis Hanson notes that such conflicts tend to come to an end only when one side is able to inflict a definitive defeat on the other. He applies this precedent to the present:
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Israel, America, and Never-Ending War
Lessons of the Punic Wars.
Why the First Amendment Protects the Right Not to Bake a Cake
Very different from folding chairs.
Netanyahu’s Opponents Are Undermined by Their Own Vanity
If he’s as bad as they say, why can’t they organize to defeat him?
Why a Strong Sense of Religious Community Complements Belief in Limited Government
John Rawls vs. religion.