Tag: Israel at War
Netanyahu is right to not listen to his generals
According to the Biden administration and left-wing opposition in Israel, the Netanyahu government should respond to the murders of six hostages earlier this month by rewarding Hamas in current negotiations by acceding to more...
‘Serious’ errors let Hamas infiltrate kibbutz on Oct. 7, per internal IDF probe
Nearly 350 Hamas terrorists, including 100 members of the terror group’s elite Nukhba Force, managed to infiltrate Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel on Oct. 7 due to catastrophic Israel Defense Forces failures in readiness...
Netanyahu, Biden to speak about new hostage proposal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak with President Joe Biden on Thursday, the Prime Minister’s Office told JNS.
While the PMO declined to comment on the nature of the conversation, Biden will reportedly...
Israel, war, and the death of reason
Though the most evident source of human governance is power, true power can never stem from war-making stratagems or capacities. In principle, at least, consummate power on planet earth is immortality, but such power...
Trump endorses Oct. 7 film: ‘Difficult, but I urge people to watch’
Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump urged his social-media followers on Tuesday to watch the film “Screams Before Silence,” which documents the sexual crimes committed by the terrorist organization Hamas on Oct. 7.
“The...
Time to bring Hamas to justice
The Biden-Harris administration released its “Fact Sheet” on the “Administration’s Actions to Address Conflict-Related Sexual Violence” on June 17, 2024. It is available on the White House website.
Curiously missing is any mention of the...
Israeli national security adviser: Hamas war won’t end before 2025
The war against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip will last at least until the end of the year, Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi declared on Wednesday.
“We expect another seven months of fighting...
IDF recovers bodies of three more hostages in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces recovered the bodies of three more hostages from the Gaza Strip during an overnight operation, the military announced on Friday.
Orión Hernández Radoux, 30, Hanan Yablonka, 42, and Michel Nisenbaum, 59,...
Four IDF soldiers wounded in Hezbollah attack on Kibbutz Yiftah
Four Israeli soldiers were wounded, including one moderately, by Hezbollah anti-tank fire from Lebanon on Monday.
The other three troops were lightly injured after two missiles hit Kibbutz Yiftah, south of Kiryat Shmona in the...
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...