Calls for “bipartisanship” from Conservatism Inc. manage only to elevate positions from the left that a healthier age would have recognized as madness.
Tag: Israel
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The Left Doesn’t Want an Alliance With the Right
Dimwitted right-wingers seeking an alliance with the left because they are angry with Trump will discover how little they get and how much it costs.
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A Leftist Is Not Improved by Zionism
It is interesting to note how establishment American conservatives equate moderation with support for Israel and, for that, are willing to overlook all other leftist sins.
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Persian Games
A permanent peace in the Middle East is unlikely, no matter how effectively Iran’s military potential has been degraded over the past six weeks.
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Does a State Have a ‘Right to Exist?’
The imprecise language used in modern debates over what constitutes a nation, a people, and a state too often leads to confusion and anger where none need exist.
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Shaping a Post-War Iran
A plan for de-escalation that secures the administration’s early wins is in the best interest of all parties—including the saner elements in Iran.
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Let’s Assume Trump ‘Fails’ in Iran
For Trump and the United States, even the worst outcome in Iran looks a lot like success.
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How Turkey Will Use the War With Iran for Its Own Ends
Erdoğan has exploited chaos in the Middle East to increase Turkey’s geopolitical power. He hopes to step in to fill the power vacuum after the U.S. war with Iran.
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Flame Out at the ‘Daily Wire’
“A tragedy. A shame. A waste.” A former Daily Wire scribe on where Ben Shapiro went wrong.
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The Siege of a Synagogue and of a Cathedral
The mob that recently attacked a New York City synagogue is different from the one that attacked St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 1989, but its spirit and intention to intimidate was the same.
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Who’s Afraid of Christian Zionism?
Some thoughts on the various incarnations of ‘Christian Zionism’ and what we need to resolve the intra-familial quarrel now poisoning our politics.
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Explaining Mamdani’s Appeal to the Young, With Polling
Establishment Republicans have no effective answer to the kind of populism promoted by Zohran Mamdani.
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JD Vance’s Dilemma
If he wishes to be elected in 2028, Vance must find a way to unite the now-fractured coalition that elected Trump.
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True Legacies and Fake Awards
Trump was elected to secure America’s borders and restore American greatness—not to win fake awards or advance diplomatic breakthroughs.
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Grifters Desecrating Charlie Kirk’s Memory Could Implode MAGA
Candace Owens is "just asking questions" to suggest that Charlie Kirk's assassination was an Israeli conspiracy.
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Polemics & Exchanges: September 2025
A reader recalls his friendship with Col. James Warner Bellah, and another critiques the Trump administration's deportation of unpopular (anti-Israel) opinions.
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President Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
For brokering peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Cambodia and Thailand, Congo and Rwanda, and his ongoing efforts between Russia and Ukraine, the U.S. president has a claim beyond all others.
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Israel’s Right to Exist Does Not Negate Palestinian Territorial Claims
Chronicles Editor-in-Chief Paul Gottfried responds to a critic who misrepresents and distorts his position on the Jewish state and what ought to be America’s posture toward it.
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The Murdoch Media’s New York Mayoral Coverage Is All About Israel
Rather than viewing the New York mayoral race as a battle between leftist factions, Fox News and the New York Post have jumped into the fray on behalf of the pro-Israel left.
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Defining Anti-Semitism
Simplistic definitions and easy assumptions about anti-Semitism shut down the conversations that would help to overcome it.
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Who Are We to Say Iran Can’t Be a Nuclear Power?
Even if Iran were to possess nuclear weapons, any threat of their offensive use would trigger an American strike that would end Iran as a geopolitical entity.
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Five Reasons the Media’s Story Downplaying the Iran Bombing Is a Hoax
The reporting on the effect of Trump’s strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities follows a familiar playbook, and it is too soon for these assessments to hold any water.
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Unwelcome Allies
Although it made sense to support Trump’s decision to bomb Iran, the narrative surrounding it from neoconservatives, and especially their attacks of the bombing’s critics, are tired and preposterous.
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Secure Borders Win Wars Like This One
Winning the wars of the future will require defending ourselves against the dark side of globalization.
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How Trump’s Iran Attack Looks Through MAGA Eyes
The nuclear-site bombings recall unhappy memories of past interventions and risk a wider war that would alienate the president’s supporters.
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The Ritualized Confrontation Between MAGA and the Neocons
If the necons are for it, MAGA is against it; but sometimes even our enemies can be correct, as I think the neocons are about Iran and the danger it poses.
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Can the U.S. and Israel Fully Destroy the Iranian Nuclear Program?
If we want to avoid a quagmire, bringing a battered Iran to the bargaining table is a more reasonable goal than the permanent eradication of Iran’s nuclear program.
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Is the U.S. Vulnerable to a Drone Sneak Attack?
After Israel’s surprise drone attack on Iranian nuclear targets, many are concerned that China could be preparing for something similar in the United States.
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WEIRD Protesters Should Stay Home
Europe’s and America’s wannabe white messiahs find out they are not wanted or welcome to interfere in the policies of foreign countries.
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More Hysteria from Douglas Murray
'On Democracies and Death Cults' serves up neoconservative hysterics that are typical of its author. In Douglas Murray's narrow thinking, you either stand with Israel and democratic values or you belong to a death cult.
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Former People Don’t Count
The civilized world seems content to stand by and do nothing as Palestinians are being killed or starved to death by Israel. They are effectively what the Soviets used to call "former people."
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Shed No Tears for Mahmoud Khalil
For people like Mahmoud Khalil, animosity for Israel and Jews is the same thing as hatred for the West. They make no distinctions, and neither should we.
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If Gaza Is Uninhabitable for Now, Where Should the Gazans Go?
If the U.S. must insert itself into the quagmire in the Middle East, there is one sane, humane, and politically prudent answer to the question of Palestinian resettlement.
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Will Fox News Outlive the Boomers?
Fox News continues occupying the right-center in American politics, but the rising generation of American rightists are miles further off to starboard.
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Searching for Zion
Rachel Cockerell's quest in "Melting Point" to discover the truth about her great-grandfather has produced not just a family history but a history of the broader search for a Jewish homeland.
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2024: A Chaotic Year in Review
A noteworthy year full of developments in world affairs leaves us wary of the evil they reveal, and hopeful that this evil will never triumph.
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When Enough Isn’t Enough: Carter’s True Legacy
The embarrassing fawning over Carter’s legacy from establishment conservatives reveals their abiding desire for social respectability at the expense of truth.
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The Last Christmas in Bethlehem
Israel’s campaign to rid its neighboring lands of their inhabitants, including Christians, recalls the situation of the first Christmas. Is there a like hope?
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A Realist’s Reassessment of America’s Alliance With Israel
Washington should recognize that Israel has interests different from those of the U.S. Such an honest reckoning would help both parties define their interests and long-term strategies.
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Importing Ancient Hatreds Undermines Liberty
Western nations that host large and growing Muslim populations are increasingly unstable.
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Why Veterans Are Voting for Trump
Whenever a high-profile general disparages Trump, his opinion makes headlines. The sentiments of ordinary soldiers, and veterans, get much less attention.
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Why Jews Aren’t Joining Forces With the American Right
American Jews may be at unease with the growing acceptance of literal jihadis as a loyal Democratic client base, but they are certainly not turning to the right.
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From the Devil to the Deep Blue Sea
Has Uncle Sam indeed signed a Faustian bargain with the Israelis? If so, who is Mephistopheles in the tale?
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Hezbollah Degraded
Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to switch the focus from Gaza in the south to Hezbollah in the north was an operational success of the highest order and a political masterpiece.
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What We Wish Donald Trump Would Say to Prime Minister Netanyahu
A transcript of the conversation Donald Trump ought to have had with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Mar-a-Lago.
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Dishonest Coverage of the Battle in the Bronx
Conservative media covering a Democratic primary in New York portray the contest as between leftist “goons” and a political moderate. It is actually about which candidate is more agreeable to the Israel lobby.
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The Bad Theology of Our Israel Über Alles Foreign Policy
Christian dispensationalism explains the fervor with which some in the Republican Party support the interests of the nation of Israel as if they were always our own.
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Western ‘Colonialism,’ Israel, and Anti-Semitism
What really explains the repeated historical periods of hostility toward Israel and the Jews.
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Transnational Injustice
The International Criminal Court is a political court, no less than the one which convicted Donald Trump in New York.