War: Thanks But No Thanks

The Battle of Missionary Ridge, fought the day before the “Thanksgiving Day” proclaimed by Abraham Lincoln. When I think of Thanksgiving, I seldom think of the Pilgrims and Wampanoag people dining together (likely sans turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie) in...

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The Starvation of Gaza Is a Crime

I wrote about the Israeli government’s starvation of the people of Gaza in my new column this week: There is a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding before our eyes in Gaza. People are not just starving, they are being starved, and it is happening with the support of our...

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Tunnels for Safety and Tunnels for Death

It’s one thing to burrow beneath the ground, digging to construct a tunnel for refuge, a passage of goods, or to store weapons during a time of war. It’s quite another to use one hand, as a small child, to try and dig your way out of the rubble that has collapsed upon...

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Gaza and Biden’s Failure of Leadership

Susan Glasser seems surprised that Americans are paying more attention to a devastating war that their government is backing unconditionally than they are to a visiting foreign leader: It says much about this moment in U.S. politics that, on Thursday, when...

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15,000 Bombs Equivalent to Two Hiroshimas

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. After dropping 6000 bombs in six days, the Israeli Air Force has now reached the staggering sum of at least 15,000 bombs dropped on densely populated areas of Gaza. The bomb tonnage is already equivalent to...

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