Analysis & Commentary

Analysis & Commentary

Top US General Slams UN Report on Gaza as ‘Inaccurate’

Israel’s conduct during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza was entirely legal and justified, a top general from the US Air Force stated Monday. “The UNHRC report on the Gaza conflict is unbalanced and fails to accurately assess which parties violated

Attorneys at War: Inside an Elite Israeli Military Law Unit

For three straight days starting on July 15, 2014, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) made thousands of phone calls to the residents of Shejaiya in northern Gaza. The locals were encouraged to evacuate their homes before IDF tanks rolled across

‘A Perverse Consequence’

Let’s begin by doing something we don’t often do, and that is quoting the New York Times at some length. We do this because David Sanger’s report of Thursday, May 14, makes clear how mistaken are the premises underlying President

Churchill on V-E Day

Friday marks the seventieth anniversary of Victory in Europe, or V-E, Day, when the Allies accepted Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender after six long years of war. No one should have savored that day in 1945 more than Winston Churchill, the