We have recently witnessed the collapse of Syria’s decades-long, oppressive regime.
There is room for the people of Venezuela and the U.S. administration to learn something from the Syrian experience and consider applying its lessons to the Maduro regime.
Syria’s quick collapse is widely attributed to the weakness of the powers that sustained the Bashar al-Assad regime and to the well-armed and well-organized opposition forces.
Although NATO has the resources to protect Ukraine, divisions among its members and misguided assumptions about escalation undermine the goal of deterring Russia.
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Michael Walzer, a respected Princeton scholar and author of the book Just and Unjust Wars, has
called Israel’s recent pagers’ attacks on Hezbollah fighters “war crimes” in a recent article
published by The New York Times.
Walzer, a committed Zionist who believes that Israel’s current war in Gaza against Hamas is
justified, believes that the operation that caused the explosion of Hezbollah’s operatives’
pager devices to explode was an act of terrorism.
Last weekend was a very tragic one for Israelis and Jews, as the IDF discovered the bodies of six hostages executed by Hamas in order to prevent them from being rescued and returned home.
The murder of the hostages triggered demonstrations against the Israeli government, which were further aggravated by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech delivered a day after the murders where he reaffirmed the need to control the Philadelphi Corridor. The Corridor is a strip of land approximately 8.5 miles long between Gaza and Egypt, which has been used to smuggle weapons, personnel, and equipment to Hamas for years.
Read MoreTwo Spanish-speaking media outlets interviewed me. In those interviews, I pointed out that I do not see a solution to the Venezuelan crisis except through civil war. Neither interview was published as they were probably considered to be inflammatory.
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