Category: Democracy and Human Rights

THE WAR IN THE NORTH-THE STRATEGIC BALANCE SHIFTS IN FAVOR OF ISRAEL

THE WAR IN THE NORTH-THE STRATEGIC BALANCE SHIFTS IN FAVOR OF ISRAEL

by | Nov 21, 2024 | 0

Sun Tzu-’’All warfare is based on deception’’

Clausewitz-’’In war, more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect’’

These famous sayings by two of the world’s most influential military thinkers seem to reflect the course of the THIRD ISRAEL-LEBANON WAR waged since 8 October 2023 when Hizballah started its unprovoked attacks against Israel, in support, as they have claimed ever since, of the Hamas war against Israel.

Hezbollah and the Possibility of Another War

Hezbollah and the Possibility of Another War

by | Sep 28, 2024 | 0

Abu Ali is a legendary Arab folk hero. He is the one that stands up for the weak and oppressed. Egypt’s former leader, Gamal abd al-Nasir, was also an Abu Ali, regardless of his repeated defeats and the calamities that he brought upon the Arabs. Yet this is so in a society that consecrates words at the expense of words, which blame others rather than itself. These days we have a new Abu Ali, in Hezbollah’s leader, Hasan Nasrallah.

A Response to Michael Walzer’s “Immoral Israel’s Pagers’ Attack” Argument

A Response to Michael Walzer’s “Immoral Israel’s Pagers’ Attack” Argument

by | Sep 27, 2024 | 0

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.

Despite Difficult Choices, Defeating Hamas Is the Only Path Towards Israeli-Palestinian Peace

by | Sep 11, 2024 | 0

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.

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