By Jan 16,2009

Why Hamas Will Win in Gaza

The Palestinians in the picture below are carrying a boy killed by an Israeli military strike in Gaza, and they’ve wrapped his body in a Hamas flag adorned with the...

By Jan 16,2009

Sharansky on disproportionate force

Via Commentary, I see that Natan Sharansky has an interesting column up at Bloomberg on the historical parallels between the second intifada and Hamas’s attacks on Israel over the last...

By Jan 16,2009

Brose on Bush's farewell address

Hot off the presses. Read it here: There was a time after 9/11 when America needed a president who saw the people who had just attacked us as a world-conquering,...

By Jan 16,2009

BART shooting

I forgot to post something on the tragic shooting of Oscar Grant last week, but Radley Balko has done a fine job of summarizing my immediate thoughts after seeing the...

By Jan 16,2009

Addendum

I suspect I was unnecessarily glib in promoting the Frum-Atallah Bloggingheads: it really is quite good. Frum is very effective in drawing out Atallah’s ideas for a U.S.-led conciliation process,...