Two States

The Deadly Pattern

The question was a valid one: “How could you, a conservative and a gentleman, be for them?” The man is an acquaintance of long standing, also a gent, so I bothered to explain: ...

Jerusalem

Israel and Palestine: What Else Is New?

Back in 1967, during the Six-Day War, I was living in Paris, and such was my pro-Israel ardor, I actually went to some dump and put my name down as a volunteer in case the state ...

Gaza: The Cold Sore of the World

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the world’s chronic illness. It’s our herpes, our diabetes, our Crohn’s disease. There is never going to be a resolution. Not in my ...

Jerusalem

Israel at 70: Bibi’s Troubled Hour of Power

For Bibi Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister save only founding father David Ben-Gurion, it has been a week of triumph. Last Tuesday, President Donald Trump ...

Banksy Protest Mural, Palestine

Trump in Israel

I"€™m in Israel right now doing a talk in Tel Aviv called "€œTrump in Israel"€ and I"€™m going on a fact-finding mission sponsored by my Jew boss Ezra Levant. Israelis ...

Dead Sea

The Solution Slips Further Away

In 1922 Churchill told the House of Commons that "€œThe whole map of Europe has been changed"€"€”by the Great War. "€œBut,"€ he said, "€œas the deluge subsides and ...

Nothing Special

There was some mild anxiety when it was revealed that Mr. Trump, as president-elect, called eight or nine heads of government before speaking to the British prime minister, ...

Fear of Conversation

A few days ago, I met a mordant Palestinian-American who told me why he refuses to recognize the existence of Israel. He said that in 1948 his father, as a boy of 6, was tied to ...

Rise of the Stoics

God bless the South. As a Pennsylvania-born descendant of loyalists, I can"€™t say that enough. From resisting tariffs to the Civil War to desegregation, the South has been a ...

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