Who Is Drinking Netanyahu’s Amalek Kool-Aid?

“You must ‘remember what Amalek has done to you,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admonished on October 28, announcing the “second phase,” a ground invasion, of Israel’s war in Gaza. Amalek, in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), is a nation that ambushed the...

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Regime Change Is Not the Answer

Surprising no one, Danielle Pletka wants the US to seek regime change in Iran: Rather, it is the Reagan doctrine and the collapse of the Soviet Union that should guide a policy for change in Tehran. Like the Soviet Union and its satellites, Iran’s regime is deeply...

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Violence Never Settles Anything

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. The ongoing Israeli attacks against Gaza put me to mind of one of my favorite science fiction books as a teenager, Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. In that book, a military veteran and teacher of “history...

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