Jan. 5, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Since the IDF commenced its ground operations in Gaza on Saturday night, I have been hungrily eyeing my hat. On Friday I argued that the Olmert-Livni-Barak government is following the same defeatist strategy in Gaza today that the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government followed in Lebanon two and a […]

Caroline Glick is no stranger to the Corner crowd. She’s senior contributing editor of the Jerusalem Post and the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy. She’s also author of Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad. I asked Caroline a few questions this morning about the current Mideast violence. […]

By Steven Plaut The jets bombed the daylights out of them. The ground forces invaded. They at long last suppressed the terrorists in a military campaign. These were the murdering terrorists who had conducted a long campaign of suicide bombing and planting bombs. Their total defeat put an end to any notion that the terrorists […]

By Louis René Beres For a Palestinian state to be born, only a gravedigger could wield the forceps. Yet in one form or another, a new state of “Palestine” will likely be carved out of the still-living body of Israel. Supported by both outgoing President Bush and President-elect Obama, this 23rd Arab state would quickly […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 1 January 2009 The Palestinian rockets slamming into Ashdod and Beersheba were not inevitable. They are the direct result of a long history of bad left wing policy recommendations that were unfortunately implemented by a series of Israeli governments. Before Yasser Arafat was welcomed into Gaza and the West Bank by […]

By Editorial Board Several years ago, when Ariel Sharon began talking about a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, we voiced the concern, raised by many others both here and in Israel, that such a move would lead directly to the establishment of a terror base on Israel’s border. The prospect that terrorist groups would flourish […]

http://tzafrirronenen.blogspot.com/ The Invention of Palestine as a Psychological Weapon for Conquering Eretz Yisrael Summary Almost 2,000 years ago, the Roman Emperor Hadrian cursed the Jewish People and decreed that Judea should be henceforth called “Palestine” after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of Israel that had disappeared from the world’s stage more than 600 years earlier. […]

David Moria, whose son was killed by terrorists, has no sympathy for Gazans who celebrated in streets David Moria Published: 12.31.08, 16:51 / Israel Opinion About 10 months ago, after our 16-year-old son was murdered in a terror attack along with seven of his friends, TV screens worldwide showed festive images from Gaza that included […]

December 30, 2008 Obama in July 2008: I would do everything to stop rocket attacks The Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) National Chairman of the Board, Dr. Michael Goldblatt, has issued the following statement of support for Israel’s military action in the past four days against Hamas in Gaza: The ZOA firmly supports Israel’s long-overdue […]

Six clichés you are likely to hear constantly in the coming days, and why they’re false Yigal Walt Published: 12.30.08, 19:13 / Israel Opinion 1) “Israel’s response in Gaza is disproportionate” Since when is war a mathematical equation? The basic objective of any warring party is to inflict maximal damage on the enemy while minimizing […]