The Pied Piper of Caesarea
What world leader would be renovating his private swimming pool at the taxpayer’s expense in the middle of a war of survival in the aftermath of a mega-onslaught of murder, rape, and infanticide of its...
View ArticleLost in the TikTok Trenches
The social media-based battle for ‘pro-Israel’ hearts and minds has been lost. Despite the noble and valiant efforts of several visionary NGO practitioners, well-to-do celebrities, and a cadre of...
View ArticleHolding Out for a Hero: Our Boys in Green
On Thursday evening January 17, 1991, I was carrying an Uzi tasked with guarding the perimeter of Kibbutz Shaalvim and the Hesder Yeshiva on its grounds. Suddenly, around midnight, I heard a massive...
View ArticleTen reasons for a cease-fire and a deal for the return of the hostages
We need a cease-fire to get the hostages home right away (in exchange for lots of Palestinian prisoners!) This is the highest priority in Israeli society today. However, the current government favors...
View ArticleBibi’s bedfellows in sacrificing the hostages and pursuing “total war”
The war of the Israel Defense Forces against the mini-army of Hamas has been going on for more than five months in the Gaza Strip. It was launched on the day after massive attacks and atrocities...
View ArticleWe should ALL be SCREAMING!
Passover, the holiday of freedom is one month away. It will be 200 days of captivity in hell for the hostages. graphic by Dana Barlev We should All be SCREAMING! Passover, the holiday of freedom is one...
View ArticleAn open letter to the world
Dear World, I wrote this letter just under a week ago. So much has happened since then. Perhaps you now understand the reality of our situation: if we don’t annihilate the terrorists, they will soon be...
View ArticleBibi Take the Win, and Then Go Home
It’s the morning after the first ever direct attack by Iran on Israel, with about 300 launches of a combination of drones and missiles against Israel. In our home in Jerusalem, my wife and I have...
View ArticleDangerous Iran: A Way Out
Make no mistake, the Iranians wanted and expected to inflict major damage on Israel and its citizens. This was not simply a case of slowly traveling drones. Iran fired 110 of its fast flying 500...
View ArticleMy Wattle
Because a wattle is hard to explain, I will show you mine. I wish it would hang down in the midline, but it likes listing to the left. A short while ago, when he was still 6, our youngest grandson was...
View ArticleDay 206 Of The War: We Were Taken Hostage
People in Israel find it hard to believe that not all Gazans support Hamas because otherwise, how come they have not revolted against their government? Now the same question is rightly directed toward...
View ArticleStop Ben-Gvir as active Minister of National Security until his name is cleared
A Minister of the Police should be unable to influence investigations of him The car of the Minister of Hate allegedly ran a red light. Baselessly he claimed he was fleeing danger, totaling his and...
View ArticleHostages home, Netanyahu out, Build ‘Gazingpore’
If the recent reports about the hostage deal are credible, then Israel and the broader MENA region might be facing a radical corporeal transformation that would make Ozempic look like a smoothie boost....
View ArticleIt’s always easy to blame someone
While the discussions about the hostage deal in Cairo continue, the head of the CIA skips between the capitals of the Middle East to try to close a deal – it is impossible not to discuss the...
View ArticleBiden isn’t ‘sacrificing Israel,’ but has had enough of Netanyahu
I’ve been reading comments in TOI strings attached to Biden’s decision to — temporarily — withhold 2,000 pound bombs, and other higher intensity offensive weaponry, to reduce the chance that Netanyahu...
View ArticleHow to Win Rafah Without Losing a Single Soldier
If Israel invades Rafah, President Biden declared, “I’m not supplying the weapons.” Cease-fire talks have stalled. The American State Department has stated that Israel may have broken international law...
View ArticleHow will we know when it’s time to leave?
It's the taboo question of committed Zionists, but admitting that there's a red line is the most loyal thing I can do as an Israeli
View ArticleBibi’s Two Biggest Lamentable Lies
Psalm 34:13. “Then keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies” Three days ago, at a major ceremony for Israel’s fallen soldiers on Israel’s Memorial Day, the most somber day in...
View ArticleGantz’s Speech: Empty Words at a Critical Time
Benny Gantz’s Saturday night press conference offered nothing groundbreaking. His speech merely rehashed the countless leaks about divisions within the war cabinet over the past months. By Gantz’s...
View ArticleOccupying Gaza is Israel’s best path forward
To end the thread of large-scale terror attacks, Israel must weaken Palestinian insurgency. Settlement is a key to that end
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