Gaza-Israel war

IDF Starts Rafah Evacuation – HotAir

Suuuuure looks like the end has come to Israeli patience. After allowing Hamas to manipulate talks for the last several months, negotiations collapsed over the weekend. US media reports put the onus on Benjamin Netanyahu for asserting — as he has all along — that he would not allow Hamas to remain in Gaza regardless […]

Nearly Half of Protesters Are Not Students or Faculty – HotAir

For some time now we’ve been hearing rumors that the increasingly violent pro-Hamas protests on American university campuses were not really “homegrown” activities at all, but were being incited by outside groups of paid, professional agitators. Now, following some investigation into police reports released by officials, we appear to have confirmation. Quite a few of […]

Netanyahu Plans to Run Again – HotAir

Could Benjamin Netanyahu manage to resurrect his political career after October 7? Conventional wisdom considered Netanyahu a likely target for the ire of Israeli voters when the war concluded and the demand for accountability over the failures to stop the massacre crescendoed. That was not just an assumption among Democrats here in the US but […]

We’re Rejecting Israel’s Offer – HotAir

Did anyone really expect Hamas to accept an Israeli proposal on an operational pause? Especially while a generation of useful idiots put political pressure on Joe Biden to force Israel into more concessions? As usual, Hamas wants to eat its cake and have it too. They have signaled a rejection of the latest US/Israeli proposal, […]

What I Saw in Israel As the Missiles Came – HotAir

Less than three weeks ago, Iran launched its first-ever direct attack on Israel from its own territory. The mullahs fired 30 cruise missiles, 120 ballistic missiles, and 170 drones in a massive attack in an escalating series of retaliations for Iran’s role in supporting Hamas and Hezbollah operations against Israel. A coalition of forces and […]

How Much Have Campus Radicals Shifted Opinion on Israel? – HotAir

We’ve had nearly seven months of radical progressives seizing campuses and now administration buildings in support of Hamas. In the beginning, they claimed to support the Palestinians, but lately the rhetorical masks have slipped even while the balaclavas have stayed on their faces. The extremists have been demanding “from the river to the sea” since […]

The Rafah Op Will Come — Very Soon – HotAir

The signs have emerged for weeks. Israel called up two new combat brigades, have re-cleared key points in central and northern Gaza, and had even partnered with Egypt on building refugee camps near Khan Younis. After the collapse of Joe Biden’s “Don’t” doctrine in Iran and the refusal of Hamas to negotiate in anything approaching […]

Come On, Man! – HotAir

Message delivered. Message received? It certainly appears that way … for now.  Last night, Israel defied Joe Biden’s “Don’t II: Craven Boogaloo” advice and hit an airbase near Isfahan, as Jazz wrote a short time ago. Initial reports made it appear that Israel had opted for the nuclear option, as in ‘hitting all the identified […]