‘Lack of transparency,’ Kansas senator slams Biden on blocking military aid to Israel
If reports are true that U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration blocked weapons shipments to Israel, that would mean they did so “without any transparency or communication to Congress on why it’s being...
Freed Israeli hostage to leave hospital after five months
Some five months after being freed from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, Elma Avraham is set to be released from hospital, Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center announced on Tuesday.
Avraham, who celebrated her 85th birthday during her hospitalization,...
Morocco and Israel, a move to a stronger alliance
A new welcome support for Rabat, in its fight for the recognition of its – disputed – sovereignty over Western Sahara came on July 17, 2023 from Israel. Indeed, after the United States...
When truth is counter-intuitive
Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971)
Emeritus Professor of International Law
Purdue University
lberes@purdue.edu
VLADIMIR: “Well? What do we do now”?
ESTRAGON: “Don’t let’s do anything. It’s safer.”
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
The “Theatrical” Background
Understood as genre, there is ample good reason to...
IDF posts on Gaza border failed routine inspection on Oct. 4
A routine inspection of Israel Defense Forces posts along the Gaza border carried out 72 hours before Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught showed a severe lack of preparedness, Channel 12 reported this week.
According to the Israeli broadcaster,...
Rick Scott: ‘Horrific’ Jew-hatred, violence ‘like a cancer’ on campuses
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) shared his “disgust” over antisemitic protests on campuses during a meeting with pro-Israel and Jewish students at George Washington University’s Hillel on Wednesday.
The senator’s daughter attended the school, located just...
Red Cross official exposed as Hamas stooge
In the latest example of a deep-seated anti-Israel bias within the International Committee of the Red Cross, the head of the ICRC’s office in Algeria and director of the Libya subdelegation has been outed...
Israel threatens to ban PA soccer association head from travel
After the head of the Palestinian Football Association demanded that the Jewish state be banned from international competitions due to the war against Hamas in Gaza, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Thursday threatened...
The Israeli Palestinian painful conundrum
After six months of war in Gaza, whipped into a frenzy by the media, Israeli public opinion is torn by fear. It wonders about the day after in a country where the messianic far...
N.Y. Times admits: Palestinian State already exists (in all but name)
(Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Jewish affairs whose writings appear regularly in the American and Israeli press.)
It was just a throwaway line in a recent New York Times article about developments in the Arab world....