Military strength deters. Period. You don’t need to watch Ronald Reagan’s “There’s a bear in the woods…” campaign ad to get that point. The defenseless nation is very quickly no longer a nation. Furthermore, the more strength it projects, the less it has to use it, either in its own defense or the defense of […]
Over three dozen House Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, signed a letter Friday pressing the Biden administration to stop sending weapons to Israel following a drone strike that left seven aid workers dead in Gaza. The letter, also signed by Reps. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, James McGovern of Massachusetts, and Jan […]
The White House on Friday said it welcomed the news that Israel made public the results of its investigation into an air strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza. National Security spokesman John Kirby said they will carefully review the inquiry and discuss the findings with Israeli government officials and humanitarian […]
LEUVEN, Belgium (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that the measures the Israeli government has announced to expand the flow of aid into Gaza are welcome but may not be enough to meet the Biden administration’s demands for dramatic improvements in humanitarian conditions in the territory. Blinken said that opening more […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition party vowed to boost social spending and reverse what it views as a slide into autocracy as it laid out its campaign promises on Friday, two weeks before the start of a weeks-long, multi-phase general election. Most polls have predicted a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Israeli military said Friday that it has dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in drone strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers on a food-delivery mission, saying they had mishandled critical information and violated the army’s rules of engagement. The findings of a retired […]
War is hell. Bad things happen. That is why war is a last resort. The Israel-Hamas war is a war of necessity. Seven humanitarian aid workers were killed in Gaza on Monday by an Israeli air strike. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized and pledged that there would be an investigation. When I wrote about […]
The head of Israel’s military announced Wednesday that a preliminary investigation had confirmed Israel’s responsibility for the attack that killed seven aid workers Monday night. Israel Defense Forces Chief of the General Staff LTG Herzi Halevi said in a video statement posted to X that the strike was a “grave mistake” that “shouldn’t have happened.” […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A new diplomatic crisis between Poland and Israel has erupted following the death of a Polish aid worker in Gaza, with the Polish president on Thursday denouncing a comment by the Israeli ambassador as “outrageous” and the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw saying it was summoning him for a meeting. A 35-year-old […]
Israel‘s top general late Tuesday issued a formal apology for a deadly airstrike on a humanitarian convoy in Gaza that killed seven aid workers, calling it a “grave mistake” that will be investigated by an independent agency. Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, said the strike was not carried […]
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