Why Israel Must Maintain Its Presence in the Jordan Valley
Peacekeepers and high-tech surveillance are no substitute for the IDF’s boots on the ground.
June 19, 2020
The New U.S. Sanctions on Syria Will Help, Not Harm, Civilians
But the UN and the WHO remain complicit in Assad’s war crimes.
In 2014, a Syrian photographer known by the pseudonym Caesar escaped to the West, bringing with him some 55,000 images bearing witness to the Assad regime’s brutal and sadistic treatment of its political opponents. Last year, thanks largely to Caesar’s testimony, Congress enacted sanctions on the Syrian government which went into effect this week. Opponents of these sanctions argue that they will inflict as much pain on Syria’s long-suffering civilians as on its rulers. Nonsense, write David Adesnik and Toby Dershowitz:
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The New U.S. Sanctions on Syria Will Help, Not Harm, Civilians
But the UN and the WHO remain complicit in Assad’s war crimes.
Why Palestinians Should Take to the Streets and Start Toppling Statues
Do Palestinian lives matter?
A New Book Argues That Adam Smith Is the Moral Philosopher for Our Age
Why we should listen to the impartial spectator within.
Grown from a 2,000-Year-Old Seed, a Tree Is a Reminder of the Land of Israel’s Verdant Past
A date palm named Methuselah.