The fate of the Bibas family shows there is no real “deal” one can make with Hamas.
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New BBC documentary: “We Will Dance Again” about Hamas attack on Supernova festival last year
As we learn more about the attacks, the atrocities appear only worse.
Deadly reporting
Double Jeopardy for $1,000: Members of this occupation set up the deaths of thousands of Gaza residents.
Zack Beauchamp: “It’s time to take back the Israel-Palestine debate from the radicals on both sides”
Here Beauchamp at VOX: You may have heard of Shai Davidai, the Israeli professor at Columbia University who has launched a crusade against the school’s pro-Palestinian protestors. He’s rocketed to fame by calling students terrorists, comparing himself to Jewish victims of Nazi Germany, and demanding the […]
Why are so many Israelis silent about Palestinian suffering?
Oded Na’aman, a philosophy professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, provides the numbers: Around 1,200 Israelis were killed on October 7, of them around 370 soldiers and 800 civilians; 242 Israeli soldiers have been killed since Israel’s offensive began; 239 […]
Walzer: “Oppressed people can do no wrong” is an “old, bad argument”
Veteran political theorist Michael Walzer has a word or two for his fellow leftists. Here is a taste of his piece at The Atlantic: After the Hamas attack on Israel October 7, an old, bad argument resurfaced. In the streets of […]
“Just war” evangelical leaders issue a statement supporting Israel
The letter calls for “the salvation and peace of the people of Israel and Palestine.” It distinguishes between the people of Palestine and Hamas. It also invokes Just War theory. Here is Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: Addressing policymakers […]
Conor Friedersdorf: “Students for Pogroms in Israel”
If you haven’t seen it yet, The Atlantic writer Conor Firedersdorf has written a critique of student activists who are “excusing murder and kidnapping” in Israel. Here is a taste of “Students for Pogroms in Israel“: Across America, millions of […]
U.S. intelligence doubts that Iran was directly involved in the Hamas attack on Israel, but a full conclusion on the matter is pending
CNN is reporting: The United States has collected specific intelligence that casts doubt on the idea that Iran was directly involved in the planning, resourcing or approving of Saturday’s bloody attack on Israel by Hamas, according to several sources familiar with the intelligence. Still, […]
Palestinian Christian journalist: It’s time for the U.S. to recognize a Palestinian state
Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian Christian and award-winning journalist who was the first Palestinian to interview former Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. He has spent much of his career fighting for a free media in Palestine under […]
Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League rips MSNBC over its coverage of the Hamas-Israeli war
Greenblatt is angry. He should be. David French is right. Moral clarity indeed:
Michael Oren: Don’t compare the current Israel-Hamas war to the Yom Kippur War of 1973
Since war broke out in Israel and the Gaza strip over the weekend, writers and journalists are comparing it to the 1973 Yom Kippur War. (For those unfamiliar with the Yom Kippur War of 1973, get up to speed here.) […]
Former Harvard president Lawrence Summers on the school’s silence on the Israel-Hamas war
In an earlier post today I noted that 31 Harvard University student groups have blamed the ongoing Israeli-Hamas war entirely on Israel. Lawrence Summers, the former president of Harvard University and Secretary of the Treasury at the end of the […]
What I am reading and watching to stay up to speed on the Israeli-Hamas war
Nothing very systematic or comprehensive here, but I’ve found these pieces helpful as I process all of this: Heather Cox Richardson offers a nice summary. We have already called your attention to this BBC explainer piece. Joe Biden condemns the […]
What is happening in Israel and the Gaza Strip?
The BBC answers all of your questions, including: Read more here.