In my last post I explained how just war theory (JWT) distinguishes the question of whether a decision to go to war is justified (jus ad bellum) from the question of whether a war is being waged in ways that ...
Read MoreI had a ticket on a plane to Tel Aviv this evening, joining my wife who would already have been in Israel on a business trip. For obvious reasons, that trip is off. But I did say in my post ...
Read MoreThere’s still a lot we don’t know, but at this point it seems highly likely that the downing of a Malysian airliner over the Ukraine was the work of trigger-happy pro-Russian Ukrainian separatists who literally didn’t know what they were ...
Read MoreIn his newsletter yesterday, M.J. Rosenberg succinctly described the obstacle to peace in Israel/Palestine: Everyone knows that the only way to permanently end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is by Israel getting out of the territories occupied after the ’67 war in ...
Read MoreUnless the situation worsens, I plan to be in Israel two weeks from now, and I expect that after I get back I’ll have more to say about this powerful cri de coeur from one Tel Aviv resident, blogger Noam Sheizaf. For ...
Read MoreThe murder of the three abducted Israeli teenagers is a mind-boggling atrocity, for which no justification is possible. But it is almost as stupid as it is immoral, because it lends credence to the standard narrative—accepted no less widely in ...
Read MoreIn its final round of decision-making for the season, the Supreme Court exhibited some predictable alignments and some surprising ones. To take the predictable ones first: the Court decided that closely-held corporations like Hobby Lobby could on religious grounds refuse ...
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