Targeted Strikes Are Not Enough to Save Northern Israel from Hizballah
But the IDF might not be ready for war.
June 17, 2024
The Decline of the Israel-Australia Alliance
After 74 years of bipartisan support.
If a military solution to the dangers growing in the north seems far-fetched, a diplomatic one appears even less promising. But the French president Emmanuel Macron has suggested a summit to search for one, provoking a sharp response from the Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant, which was, in turn, contradicted by the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem. The incident is a reminder of the fact that Israel’s purported allies, France among them, don’t always act in its best interests—and at the same time of the importance of having allies in the first place.
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The Decline of the Israel-Australia Alliance
After 74 years of bipartisan support.
A Nobel Prize-Winning German Author on the Turn against Jews and Democracy
Herta Müller on the madness that has gripped the West.
Kabbalah, Prague, and the Fantasy That Jews Could Magically Hold Their Enemies in Abeyance
Leo Perutz’s By Night Under the Stone Bridge.
Preserving the Jewish Graves of Old Vilna
Living cemeteries and dead ones.