Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks on America in 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld knew exactly what to do: “go massive.” Al Qaeda’s “shock and awe” attacks were an opportunity for the...
As Israel intensified a war that's already killed more than 7,300 Palestinians and displaced a majority of Gaza's residents, hundreds of Jewish American protesters and allies were arrested after taking over New York's Grand Central Station Friday evening for a sit-in...
There are a disturbing number of parallels between the events surrounding September 11th and the October 7th attacks against Israel earlier this month. For example, as with the dozens of warnings the US received before 9/11, Israel also received numerous warnings...
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently said, “the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.” The Israeli Ambassador responded that Guterres’ comments were “shocking”,...
The largest Muslim American civil rights group on Wednesday led condemnation of U.S. President Joe Biden for saying he had "no confidence" in Palestinian health officials' Gaza casualty reports – figures deemed reliable by United Nations agencies, human rights groups,...
Ross Douthat wants you to be very afraid of China: The establishment of Chinese military pre-eminence in East Asia would be a unique geopolitical shock, with dire effects on the viability of America’s alliance systems, on the likelihood of regional wars and arms races...
When I told my grandmother that I was going to visit Europe for the first time, she exploded, “Oy vey!” Raising her voice, she exclaimed: “There’s nothing there! NOTHING! Just poverty and filth.” Collecting herself, she added: “You like foreign food? There’s better in...
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby advised Gazans Tuesday that their destruction and ethnic cleansing will continue relentlessly. “This is war. It is combat. It is bloody, ugly and it’s going to be messy and innocent civilians are going to be...
As the death toll from Israel's relentless and indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza approached 5,800 Palestinians—including over 2,300 children—a group of around 40 faith leaders calling for an immediate cease-fire led a Tuesday afternoon pray-in at the Washington, D.C....
On COI #489, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from the war on Gaza. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.
