A few thoughts on the hopeless situation in the Gaza Strip, the pain over our hostages, and a divided Israel that, after 22 months, still doesn’t know how to move forward.
Gaza
While children in the Gaza Strip go hungry, the West has already passed its moral verdict: Israel is to blame—for the suffering, the hardship, the deaths.
Israel stands at a strategic crossroads: Where is the Gaza conflict headed now?
Gideon Sa’ar, the Israeli foreign minister, flew to New York to take part in the session in Turtle Bay.
Israel’s goal should be not to be seen as the “good guys.” It should be seen as too expensive and painful to attack.
Whatever path is chosen, Netanyahu urges national unity to achieve the war’s three primary goals.
The media have aided Hamas, Iran, and their apologists in promoting nonsensical and often comically outlandish assertions would otherwise be mocked and ignored.
Israel’s president demands that the world hold Palestinian terror groups accountable for starving Israeli hostages.
In Israel, a war is raging not only in the Gaza Strip but also a profound, existential debate about the future of the country, its character, responsibility, pragmatism, and the relationship between strategy, morality, and faith.
The Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre on southern Israel was “one of the worst I’ve ever seen,” the US president told reporters.
