A review of Uri Kaufman’s “Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East”
Sean DurnsOctober 13, 2023
Henry Kissinger has done it again with the publication of this outstanding book on leadership.
Mark AmstutzJanuary 26, 2023
Robert Kennedy had rejected the anti-Semitism of his father, Ambassador Joe Kennedy, and had pledged to send 50 jet fighters to Israel to help that small, embattled country survive in a sea of enemies. For that, he would pay with his life.
Robert MorrisonJune 5, 2018
David Ben-Gurion, who declared the establishment of the State of Israel 70 years ago this week, once mused that “God left one commandment out of the Bible. Perhaps the Almighty delivered this commandment to Moses, but Moses forgot to bring it down from the mountain. That commandment is No. 11: ‘Be strong.'”
Marc LiVeccheMay 18, 2018
St. Thomas Aquinas knew more than his modern emendators do about grounding his just war deliberations—and much else—in the cardinal moral virtue of prudence.
Robert G. KaufmanSeptember 27, 2017
After the Six Day War, peace with the Palestinians remains the elusive piece needed to bring this century-long Israel-Palestine conflict to an end. The war reshaped the conflict, but sadly its final resolution remains somewhere over the horizon.
Joshua MuravchikAugust 14, 2017
Love of justice presumes a love of truth, for justice without truth is a contradiction in terms. And love, to the extent it matters in the procurement of justice, is only effective when purified by truth.
Robert NicholsonAugust 8, 2017
This week is the fiftieth anniversary of the unification of Jerusalem and control of the area by the State of Israel. Here is what you should know about one of history’s most important cities.
Joe CarterMay 26, 2017
In 2017, there are three anniversaries that are of particular interest to me as a Christian and as a Christian who supports Israel.
Luke MoonFebruary 17, 2017
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