Recent Analysis
End Forever Wars by Winning Recurrent Ones
(New English Review) – Elbridge Colby says Americans are tired of “forever wars.” Colby, a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Trump administration, was described by Politico in an April feature as “the intellectual leader and rising star of an insurgent wing in the…
Mountain view: No room for two states
The geography beneath Israelis and Palestinians has not changed. (Jewish News Syndicate) – One charge against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government is that because it depends on far-right religious nationalist and ultra-Orthodox parties, it precludes a two-state solution…
Team Biden Outmaneuvered by China?
(Gatestone Institute) – U.S. policy toward China appears to be suffering from a belief in magic – that, for instance, withdrawing from Afghanistan would be a great idea; that Putin would be happy with a "minor incursion" into Ukraine; that…
Assad Returns to the Arab League—U.S. Diplomacy Stumbles
(Algemeiner) – Bashar al-Assad appears to have won Syria’s devasting 12-year civil war. The 21-nation Arab League (22 with the inclusion of the notional entity of “Palestine”), which suspended Syria early in the fighting, welcomed it back in May. The…
Misunderstanding Lady Liberty: Why We’re Free in America
(Townhall.com) – For diversity enthusiasts, the crowd on and around the Statue of Liberty on a recent Sunday looked like the United Nations General Assembly out for a stroll sans diplomatic garb. Most, if not all races, seen and many languages…
Israel at 100–People, Land and Mission Renewed
(The Times of Israel) – Much has been written about Israel’s 75th anniversary last month. How the Jewish state, reborn after 1,878 years and now with a population of nearly nine million, of whom seven million are Jews, not only survived…
Progressives versus Brown v. Board of Education: Woke Resegregation
(New English Review) – This spring has been a rubber mallet to the forehead of those in one local front of the struggle to preserve equality—as principle, law and frequent reality—in America against resegregation in the name of diversity, equity…
‘The Nakba’ Hallucinators Writhe Again
(Times of Israel) – The usual claque of Israel-haters plans a rally Sunday, May 14 in Washington, DC to commemorate what it insists was “al-nakba,” Arabic for “the catastrophe” of Israel’s creation in 1948. Sponsors give the game away. They…