We’re traveling off the grid for the next three weeks to get back some time as a family. Take care everyone. Stay strong.

Thank you to ⁦Dan Senor⁩ and ⁦Haviv Rettig Gur⁩ for highlighting my concerns about how Khamenei has launched a weapon of mass distraction so that he can finish his weapon of mass destruction.

Call me Back is the best podcast on the current war. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cal…

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says senior Hamas operatives captured by troops in the Gaza Strip have told interrogators that 'the group is collapsing from within.'

'In the last week or two, hundreds of terrorists have been captured and what they say about what happened to them…

“This is our story,” say the most privileged people who ever lived of the suffering Palestinians.

In their desperate boredom and ennui, they imagine themselves securing pride of place on the “mantle of liberation,” and ensuring that their “coward” enemies (the dean? It’s the…

מה שאנשים לא מבינים לגבי המגזר החילוני, זה שכל זעקות 'נמות ולא נתגייס' והדרישות לתקציבים רק גורמות לו להסתגר עוד יותר ולהתכדרר כקיפוד.

צריך לבוא איתם בהידברות ולא בכפיה, אחרת נהרוס את תהליכי העומק שקורים אצלם. אבל כרגיל, עושים שטויות בלי להכיר את המגזר החילוני, וזה מתפוצץ בפנים.

My latest on Gaza, 'How Israel Wins the Postwar,' outlines a strategy that sustains the forthcoming military victory over an Iranian proxy. But the Israeli government needs to change course on postwar planning, urgently.
jstribune.com/silverman-how-…

If you want to understand how bad Israel is at PR, and how deep that handicap runs throughout Israeli institutions and culture, read this interview.

Israelis have always struggled with the idea that it’s a good thing to explain oneself to the world, because explaining feels like…

This is true about the Houthis, but not, alas, about their fans in the West.

Because to the western hard left, none of this is about actual human suffering. It’s about the moral narcissism of bored Westerners living out a weird and cruel ideological fantasy in which the rest of…

זו שאלה טובה. הטענה כשלעצמה נכונה לגמרי. לחץ על הממשלה מעלה את המחיר של העסקה ומרחיק אותה. אז למה הם מפגינים?

התשובה פשוטה אך כואבת: ככה נראה חוסר אמון.

קשה מאוד לנהל מלחמה כשרוב העם פשוט לא מאמין למוצא פיך, לכוונותיך ולשיקול דעתך. ואת חוסר האמון - מה לעשות - הוא הרוויח ביושר.

צודקת.

It’s true. Until Israel, China was as free as Denmark, Syria and Yemen no more violent than Luxembourg, and Vladimir Putin spent his days as a park ranger. Then Israel went and messed everything up.

Damned Jews, always undermining the morality of this otherwise pristine world.

That’s some top notch political communication.

And yes, when the wealthy liberal West starts moralizing, this is exactly how hypocritical it sounds to everybody else.

After ruining Gaza, Hamas has shifted its focus on Egypt and #Jordan , particularly the later.
#Hamas ’s leading figures are openly inciting Jordanians to protest and demand to open the border with #Israel .
Queen Rania’s hostile rhetoric against Israel did nothing but entice…

תשמעו, אני בסקרנות שיא לראות איזו ״מסירות נפש״ תחזיר את התקציבים. לך על זה, ר׳ משה הלל הירש!

ועכשיו ברצינות: הציבור החרדי מלא באנשים רציניים וערכיים שמתלבטים מאוד בשאלת הגיוס והמימון הציבורי. כל הליצנים שנשמע מהם בחודשים הקרובים לא מייצגים את הרוב הטוב והרציני הזה.

Folks, I’m logging in after Shabbat and feeling I wronged Ron Kampeas. I know Ron. He’s a good journalist, honest and critical and thoughtful. If I think he was way off on this, it only means I disagree with one quick thought he had on Twitter. Not that I question his integrity or…

One of the most disturbing aspects of being a Jew in America today is the shock of watching so many liberally-minded non-Jewish friends refuse to name antisemitism unless it comes from the right. With the exception of a tiny brave few, the majority have refused to meet this…

It depends on context.

This has been my exact experience in meeting American Jews over the past six months. From right to pretty deep on the left, you encounter the same shift in Jewish consciousness. The argument that the new anti-Zionism is functionally antisemitic isn’t a talking point. Most of the…

Antisemitism in the left has reached QANON levels.

Remember Shani like this. Not how The Associated Press is showing her.