Tom Hastings: Why you should care about Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Hamas, Trump
Honest minds (and others) are differing on many global conflict questions right now: Russia and Ukraine, Hamas and Israel, Trump and democracy, and so forth.
Honest minds (and others) are differing on many global conflict questions right now: Russia and Ukraine, Hamas and Israel, Trump and democracy, and so forth.
Several members of Congress are encouraging prioritization of Israel’s resumption of a longstanding agreement the Palestinian Authority.
It’s a queasy feeling to experience up close on the nightly news the further turn of a 70-year-old futile cycle of violence.
Whereas Israel’s stated goal from the onset of its war in Gaza was and still justifiably is the destruction of Hamas, Israel has not offered as yet any clear exit strategy.
U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel appears to be on life support, with the Senate, in a procedural vote on Wednesday, blocking a measure proposed by President Biden.
Turns out that over a year before the Hamas attack, Israeli intelligence secured multiple documentation that gave a detailed account on what Hamas would do Oct. 7.
Under Prime Minister Netanyahu’s leadership, Israel-Jordan relations have hit a new low. Sadly, after 30 years of peace, there is deep sullenness and disappointment between the two countries.
In an opinion article published in the Washington Post on Nov. 18, President Biden described how far his ambitions stretch beyond the four-day pause in fighting just agreed upon.
As a child of two Holocaust survivors and a product of Jewish day schools and Zionist summer camps, I was brought up to love Israel unconditionally.
We have been told since Israel’s founding that worldwide Jewry is safer if there is a strong Jewish state. I believe, for this to be so, that state must be righteous among the nations.
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