A Wedding and Three Funerals
We don’t need their permission, and we aren’t going to ask for it. We aren’t going to let these moral midgets claim the role of moral yardstick against which we must measure our behavior. We, who gave the […]
Category Archives: Terrorism
Our Weakness and Our Strength
Whatever we do, we need to be prepared to wake up and start all over again, continuing to build despite all the destruction. There is a movie that came out years ago called “Groundhog Day”, in which the […]
Compassion
Whether it is a tolerance for radical and objectionable political views, or a lax and forgiving response to dangerous and illegal behavior, sometimes the compassionate thing to do breeds a culture of forgiveness towards wrong and evil that […]
My Street, Your Street and J Street
The road to J Street might be paved with good intentions. But as we saw with Oslo, this kind of delusional thinking inevitably ends up covering our streets in Israel with blood. When an idea is thoroughly debunked […]
Fighting the Myth-makers from Hell
Without a vigorous Israeli defense, the video, freely and widely distributed by France 2, became the iconic excuse for barbaric terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. Had it not been for Israeli physicist Nahum Shahaf, the al-Dura affair would […]
The Virgins
To see these scenes repeated in Boston filled me with a terrible sadness. It was all so sickeningly familiar: the happy crowds, the sudden ear-shattering explosions, the dazed and wounded lying bloodied on the ground. Like every Israeli […]
Flying Home
As the plane pulled smoothly into a landing in a brightly shining Tel Aviv, a flight attendant wished everyone a “pleasant… stay in Israel.” Tell me, who gets on a plane and heads deliberately into a war zone […]
Israeli Mother Vanquishes Knife-Wielding Terrorist Scum
When Yael Matzpon heard the door open at 3:30 AM, she thought it was her husband returning from his job in the IDF. But when the door flung open and the light flicked on, she found herself face […]
The Gathering Storm
General Martin Dempsey has made it clear that America’s timetable and Israel’s differ. We are facing utter annihilation; America is not. Israel, the end of summer, 2012. We drive down Highway 6, crowded with families headed to holiday […]