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There's No Such Thing As 'Just Rockets' Anymore

1 day ago | commentary.org | Seth Mandel

A helpful way to understand how much about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was changed by Oct. 7 is to consider Israelis' attitudes toward rocket attacks. Rockets must now be treated as far more of a threat than they ever have before. Rockets, especially those fired from Gaza by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have long been dismissed by Israel's critics in the West. Those critics don't have to jolt their children awake in the middle of the night and rush them to a bomb shelter.
Medical Groups Are Suddenly Silent

1 day ago | commentary.org | Seth Mandel

If you were on X in December, you probably saw the following prefab script posted numerous times by folks claiming to be health-care professionals who had developed an Internet-inspired fixation with a Palestinian in Gaza: "My name is []. I am a medical doctor. I am calling for the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. He was abducted by the Israeli forces. I am calling for protection of hospitals and medical workers in Gaza.
Green Days of Rage

2 days ago | commentary.org | Seth Mandel

Music has always been political, so I wasn't at all surprised by the, shall we say, expressiveness at this weekend's Coachella festival. Nor was I surprised that the political sloganeering was aimed at denouncing the Jewish state-if you're a band nobody's ever heard of, and you don't have the talent to change that with your music alone, you'll be tempted to jump on the anti-Israel bandwagon and hope it can pull you farther than you were able to go on your own.
The Dangerous Return of Pre-Oct. 7 Thinking

3 days ago | commentary.org | Seth Mandel

The shedding of pre-Oct. 7 thinking on the part of many American Jews has occasioned a backlash from the revanchists who seek to undo any progress or advancement the Jewish community has made since that horrific day. One example of revanchist thinking: the reversion to "keep your head down" Judaism out of fear that if we advocate for our own rights we will be blamed, fairly or unfairly, for the consequences.
A Mall in Ramallah

6 days ago | commentary.org | Seth Mandel

It may not seem important, but the dueling Palestinian reactions to the opening of a mall in Ramallah are telling. "Icon Mall marked its opening on Saturday with live music, dance performances and a large public turnout," Haaretz reports.
Now It Can Be Told: Hamas Is Mortal

1 week ago | commentary.org | Seth Mandel

Sometimes an assertion goes from hotly contested to widely accepted without ever really stopping along the way. So there has been no eureka moment regarding confirmation that Hamas controls humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza. There is just no denying it anymore. Israel's decision to cut off aid to the enclave tested the hypothesis that humanitarian aid shipments were, perversely, keeping Hamas alive and keeping Gazans squeezed for cash.
The Leak Was the Whole Point

1 week ago | commentary.org | Seth Mandel

The revelation that President Trump " waved off" an Israeli-led strike on Iran's nuclear program is the second-most newsworthy part of the big New York Times scoop that broke yesterday. More significant is the fact that the article exists at all, and was published at this moment. The primary purpose of the article is not as a record of internal deliberations but as an instrument of policy itself.
Trump's Restrainers, Restraining Israel

1 week ago | commentary.org | John Podhoretz

By John Podhoretz A two-hander today as Abe Greenwald and I delve Talmudically into the New York Times story on how Donald Trump decided not to participate in an Israeli strike on Iran and why. Give a listen. Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts , , or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. This podcast is produced by Commentary, Inc., a 501(c)(3) designated non-profit. If you would like to make a donation to keep this podcast strong, .
The Golem in the Machine

1 week ago | commentary.org | Arthur Herman

I'm not Jewish, but I've been fascinated by the golem story-the tale of the creation of a defender of the Jews who is made of clay by a mystic magician-since junior high school, when I learned about the 1920 German Expressionist film of that name. After all, what bookish teenager wouldn't want a strong, silent protector ready to repel all bullies and tormentors on command? Later on, my wife Beth introduced me to S.
Stop the Revolution, I Want to Get Off

1 week ago | commentary.org | John Podhoretz

I was once a revolutionary. Well, not really, not in the sense that I sought the overthrow of a political system. But in a marketing sense. When it came to the "Republican Revolution of 1994," I was all in-and in the end, that revolution was transformative. For me personally. The idea that Washington was changing in a historic way gave me the idea that would change my life. The new magazine I conceived and then co-founded in 1995 was called the Weekly Standard.