Analysis & Commentary

Analysis & Commentary

For Gaza’s ‘Day After,’ Look to Private Security Companies

Could private security companies — known as PSCs — play a role in defeating Hamas and kick-starting the transition to a better “day after” in Gaza? Despite PSCs having a checkered history, reports suggest that several key stakeholders, including Israel and the United

Volkswagen’s Second Genocide

Etched on the gates to Dachau, Auschwitz, and other Nazi concentration camps built under the Third Reich are the German words Arbeit Macht Frei—Work Makes One Free. The concentration camps were initially advertised as helping derelict classes of society by

For the Sake of Israelis and Palestinians, Israel Must Completely Defeat Hamas in Gaza

It is fitting that Israeli soldiers finally killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the period between the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack, and the Hebrew calendar anniversary on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. The terrorist leader’s death marks a

Fighting underground: The US military must learn from Israel’s experience

As Israel conducts limited ground operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon, it already has encountered tunnels similar to the dangerous unseen combat it has fought for a year beneath Gaza. Not for the first time, Israel is engaged in a new kind of fight that the