Monthly Archives: October 2023
Pentagon Spox: ‘Our message to Israel is that we stand with you’
Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder has been close to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin since Hamas attacked Israel and Israel launched “Operation Swords of Iron” on Oct. 7.
The Biden administration has...
Verter fun der Vokh – War In Israel
Fifty years after the Yom Kippur war, the State of Israel has experienced a huge surprise attack during a Jewish holiday. This time the attackers were Hamas terrorists who attacked with both airstrikes and...
IDF chief Halevi vows to probe mistakes, ‘but now is the time for war’
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi admitted the army failed to protect Israel's citizens and properly guard the border fence with the Gaza Strip in a speech to reporters on Thursday.
That failure...
Older couple survives three Hamas assaults on home in Kibbutz Yitzhak
“You're not going out. You are not going out.”
Those were 63-year-old Vivian Roitman's fateful words to her 72-year-old husband Menachem on the morning of Oct. 7, after the Hamas terrorists who had ransacked their...
Israel, Terrorism And Immortality: Hamas Attractions To “Power Over Death”
“An immortal person is a contradiction in terms.”
Emmanuel Levinas, God, Death and Time (2000)
Effective counter-terrorism is never just about strategy and tactics. For Israel, still at the start of Operation Swords of Iron, dealing...
This is who they have always been
As the world reels from accounts of Hamas’s obscene slaughter of Jews in southern Israel on Oct. 7, some who have in the past criticized Israel’s conduct of prior military operations in the Gaza...
History of Conflict with Israel Tilts Toward the Palestinians
Although this book claims to be an objective history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it clearly is a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel narrative.
The author, Michael Scott-Baumann, a resident of Cheltenham, England, had volunteered for a group calling...
Couple’s Post-Holocaust Reunification Story Has Emotional Impact
In Kaunas, Lithuania, a city also known as Kovno, David and Dora Ruskin married in 1938. They had a daughter, Rose Miriam, in 1939, and came under Nazi German occupation in 1941. After three...
Worse than Nazism: It is Babi Yar All Over Again
Hitler taught the Arabs how to slaughter Jews, yet it can surprise us that the Einsatzaruppen’s chapter in Gaza City could not find a 50-foot deep ravine to gun down the 1200 or more...
King Charles condemns ‘barbaric’ Hamas attacks on Israel
King Charles III of the United Kingdom called Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday to “express his condolences and deep shock at the criminal and barbaric actions of the terrorist organization Hamas in its...