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where he specialized in civil-military relations.

why can’t Israel live with an Iranian bomb? The answer is that no Israeli leader has ever threatened to eradicate Iran.

the United States took land from the native peoples of North America. But so

aloof bystanders could adopt this kind of logic and base their actions and inactions on it. But there are no aloof bystanders. The Tehran terrorists have proven that once and for all. If the countries of the West do not band together agains...

passages from an article I published in 1979 about the Iran hostage crisis come to my mind:

after the attack on New York’s World Trade Center on 11 September 2001

many pacifists who cling to the notion that war is immoral continue to forget that soldiers

“He who wishes peace should prepare for war.” (The full text of the proverb goes on to say

two books impressed me mightily. They still do. One is Konrad Lorenz’s On Aggression. An M.D. and a Ph.D. and a 1973 Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology

adding that Hamas is a resistance movement that believes that resistance is the means of liberating Palestine

saying that some media outlets are trying to convince the public that there is division within the ranks of Hamas. Al-Bardawil also stressed that Hamas figures have the right to issue their statements using whatever language they wish so lo...

Izzat al-Rashaq denied that Zahar's statements reflect a state of disagreement or division within Hamas

and do not represent the position of the Hamas movement or any of its institutions. They represent a violation of the organizational traditions followed by Hamas

Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Rashaq

and the part (of Hamas) that is abroad is just a part of that.""

Zahar criticized the statements made by Hamas leader Khalid Meshal on 4 May in Cairo during the signing of the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas. Zahar said that Khalid Meshal did not have any right to say that Hamas would gi...

with Hamas senior figures verbally sparring and exchanging criticism in the media. This is particularly surprising as Hamas is known for the discipline of its cadres and members.

I couldn’t help thinking of the contrast. Anyone who has spent any time around Congress knows that many of the people who applauded Netanyahu—the Jewish Democrats in particular—don’t actually support his policies. Privately

many in Congress consider settlement expansion a catastrophe and the occupation a disgrace.

I expected to hear about borders and refugees and Jerusalem. Instead