Colonel Richard Kemp, CBE, served in the British Army from 1977-2006. He was commander of British forces in Afghanistan and completed 14 operational tours of duty around the globe. He now runs a private security company in London and advises on defense and security issues.
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In most operations in urban areas, even those conducted by Western armies, more civilians than fighters are killed
The usual media suspects, such as the BBC and CNN, both cheerleaders for Ukraine's defensive operations, have predictably been doing their best to slant their coverage against Israel.
FOR ISRAEL TO BE STRONG, TO PROSPER, TO BE A FORCE FOR GOOD IN THE REGION AND THE WORLD, AND TO FEND OFF INCESSANT POLITICAL WARFARE CAMPAIGNS, IT NEEDS TO BE UNITED IN THE BASIC QUESTIONS.
The report paints a stark picture of an increasing, intensifying and carefully coordinated campaign of attacks on Jewish identity at over 60% of the colleges and universities that are popular with Jews,
In memory of: David Berger, Anton Fliegerbauer, Ze'ev Friedman, Yosef Gutfreund, Eliezer Halfin, Yosef Romano, Amitzur Shapira, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, Andre Spitzer, Yakov Springer, Moshe Weinberg. May their memory be a blessing
Israel has not claimed its operation in Gaza — codenamed Breaking Dawn — is to deter. The government has made it clear that the strikes were to prevent an imminent threat to the Israeli population. It had hard intelligence that PIJ, led by Jabari, was planning attacks across the border from Gaza.
Courage cannot be taught but it can be fortified, and that is fundamentally what Club Z does. It is what empowers these teens to say, as the finest soldiers say when there's a perilous task to be done: "Here I am; send me".
Can we expect Europeans to fight and die for countries whose histories and modern sense of worth have been roundly denounced and condemned by their own leaders?
Where Putin demands that NATO pull back, it should push forward. Some may see this as provocative, but it is in fact a sign of strength which will do more to deter Putin than appeasing him.
Let us be in no doubt, this report is not a criticism of the State of Israel. It is a chillingly clear manifesto pronouncing Israel an illegal entity with no right to exist.
Biden's policies of appeasement towards Iran and Russia are bad enough. But the greatest threat to the free world today comes from China. Biden has a long record of appeasing Beijing.
[W]hen students and others call for "Palestine" to be free "from the river to the sea", it is this fantasy that they embrace: Jews massacred, expelled, enslaved, hunted down or allowed a precarious subsistence as second class citizens in a repressive Islamic state.
Following his validation in Afghanistan of this damning indictment, Biden now has a chance at last to get something right by abandoning his plan to undermine a close ally, reduce the prospects of peace and sentence the Palestinian people to more decades of suffering.
There is little likelihood, without firm intervention by the British government, that the BBC will relinquish its leadership of the global anti-Israel movement that has contributed to so much suffering, misery and bloodshed.
Durban IV will further empower anti-Israel political leaders around the globe
Every debate and vote has overwhelmingly and of course falsely affirmed Israel's supposed war crimes and crimes against humanity. Meanwhile Hamas's actual multiple war crimes have been brushed aside.
BDS tells its supporters that it is "an inclusive, anti-racist human rights movement that is opposed on principle to all forms of discrimination, including anti-semitism and Islamophobia". That is a lie.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has long had its sights on what it no doubt considers an unholy trinity: Israel, the US and Britain.... First, these are the three Western democracies most active in using legitimate military force to defend their interests.
The same negative policy [by the press and many purported human rights groups] extends to other major benefits that Israel has brought to the world, including scientific innovation, medical technology and life-saving intelligence. It goes against editorial agendas to report on the Jewish state in a positive light unless they can somehow twist a good story to turn it bad.
If a country lacks the confidence to stick up for its own values at home, how is it to robustly defend its virtues against those who wish to undermine them?
Any return to the JCPOA by a Biden White House, as is being pushed by Mr Brennan and other prospective administration officials, will not see a strengthened deal but more likely an even weaker one.
The International Criminal Court is no longer a legal body. It is now a political body. It has turned itself into something it was never intended to be.
Most Arab countries see common interests with Israel in the face of the mullahs in Tehran with their imperial aggression in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and beyond, coupled with insatiable nuclear ambition.
If US snapback sanctions succeed, that can only hasten the end of the terrorist regime in Tehran. It will also boost confidence and security among the Arab countries, increasingly fearful of a nuclear-armed Iran.
It is factually incorrect to assert that Israel intends to “annex” territory to which it has legitimate claim and that never has been part of a “state of Palestine.”
Some Palestinian Arab leaders today seem to prefer that their own people succumb to disease rather than cooperate with Israel. While Palestinians and Israelis on the ground pull together against Coronavirus.... articles in official Palestinian Authority publications assert that Israel is deliberately spreading the infection and trying to contaminate Palestinian prisoners, using Coronavirus as a biological weapon.
China's arms exports are not motivated primarily by revenue generation, but as a means to impose influence and control, create proxies and challenge the US.
An accelerating sense of crisis now engulfs our society. As the impact of Coronavirus deepens and the death toll mounts, the scale of the emergency is unprecedented in peacetime
Pres. Trump is considering some form of recognition of Israel’s legitimate and necessary possession of the Golan. We strongly support this proposal.
The true and malevolent purpose of Hamas's plan is to incite violence in such a way that the IDF has no choice but to respond with lethal force, killing Gaza civilians.
What possesses a historian and director to rip apart the best and the brightest of Israel? How can they historically revise the famed Entebberaid?
The jihadist aim is to isolate Israel politically so that on the day their planned offensive begins, no one will be there to support Israel and the Jews. The PA, the PLO and the Arab/Muslim states will be unhampered to do what Hitler was unable to do in historic Palestine -- make it Judenrein (free of Jews).
Despicably, as the Jews stood shoulder to shoulder with the British during WW II, Britain continued to restrict immigration into Palestine, that could have saved so many Jewish lives from extermination at the hands of the Nazis.
Europeans should learn from Israel’s vast experience in confronting vehicular terror attacks. ‘Run, hide and tell’ is not a strategic concept that will discourage further attacks or limit their damage. We will have to be more robust than this.
To argue the war in Gaza could have been avoided ignores the diplomatic and political efforts made to do just that and actions by the UN, EU and others that encouraged terrorist acts against Israel
Rather than spreading fear and false propaganda about Trump, the EU should hope he will provide the strength so desperately needed today, and working out how best it can support rather than attack him
Arab Jew-hatred has caused Britain to fail occasionally to condemn and to find excuses for Arab aggression against Israelis, all in the name of appeasing the Arabs and their supporters
Prime Minister Begin knew the meaning of true independence was not about firecrackers, dancing in the streets or lighting flames. It was about standing up for yourself and submitting to no man.
Israel’s independence was bought at a high price in Jewish blood, fighting first the mighty British Empire, then against 5 powerful Arab armies seeking its destruction.
Silence and inaction by the UN and the EU add up to at least a degree of culpability.


