I was six years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Was that a terrorist attack, or do we excuse…
Middle East
My Bone to Pick with Biden’s Secretary of Defense
Actually, I have several, but first a few words to set the confrontation on level ground. It was called Secretary…
Israel May Be Turning Palestine Into Afghanistan
When you give your enemy nothing left to live for, he becomes indomitable. It’s a very dangerous thing to do…
Israel—America’s Middle East Pain In the Ass
I understand the Holocaust. I was ten years old, sitting in a movie-theater with my family when Dachau was…
An Asshole and Killer, But “Our Asshole and Killer”
Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud is the guy who runs the show in Saudi Arabia and a ruthlessly interesting dude…
Another take on ISIS (perhaps) being un-stoppable by the West
To understand the progress of ISIS, a rag-tag militant group raging across the Middle East, it’s not a bad idea…
The Gaza War and the Century of the Militants
I take your Finger and you take my Hand, but it will never stop Hamas of course is the big…
Israeli-Palestinian Peace is Not Difficult to Achieve
Say what? Peace between these two areas (only one of them is a country) has been at loggerheads for half…
Israel and Gaza—Custer’s Last Stand
A quiet half-hour over toast and jam (two slices) this afternoon set me to thinking in an uncluttered, free-spooling manner.…
Israel Exhausts its Worldwide Support
It’s 1993 and Bill Clinton beams down (he’s a pretty tall guy) on Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, arms widespread…