David Horovitz
David Horovitz
Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir in the Tel Aviv police command center, during demonstrations in the city against the coalition’s judicial overhaul, March 1, 2023. (via Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law via Times of Israel)
May 28, 2026, 9:52 am
Netanyahu needs to fire Ben Gvir after his flotilla provocation
But of course he won’t
By David Horovitz
Israel Border Police Master Sgt. Ran Gvili. (Source: Israel Hayom via JNS)
January 28, 2026, 10:10 am
With Ran Gvili’s return Israel’s leadership fulfills sacred obligation to the nation it failed on Oct. 7
Hamas is not destroyed, and aims to recover. But the war’s other essential goal, the return of all the hostages, has been achieved — to the very last one
By David Horovitz
Zohran Mamdani at the Resist Fascism Rally in Bryant Park on Oct 27, 2024 (Photo by Bingjiefu He, CC BY-SA 4.0. via Wikimedia Commons)
November 12, 2025, 9:39 am
Does it really matter that Mamdani loathes and demonizes Israel?
There’s an argument to be made that Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory is all about local issues. It’s delusional
By David Horovitz
Aid awaits collection on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom Crossing with the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued on July 21, 2025. (Photo courtesy of COGAT, via The Times of Israel)
July 23, 2025, 10:54 am
How Israel made itself responsible for Gaza, and for all the death and destruction there
A war that began with the imperative to destroy Hamas’s military machine and get back the hostages has metastasized into an Israeli military takeover of most of Gaza, overseen by a government dependent on the support of would-be permanent occupiers
By David Horovitz
US President Donald Trump, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House, July 8, 2025. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
July 9, 2025, 1:08 pm
A new strategy for destroying Hamas?
Trump’s Middle East envoy Witkoff says the latest phased deal is almost finalized, and believes it ‘will lead to lasting peace’. We’ll know soon enough
By David Horovitz
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir (right) and IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar are seen at the IAF’s underground command center, June 15, 2025. (Photo courtesy of Israel Defense Forces)
June 30, 2025, 10:29 am
Israel was facing destruction at the hands of Iran. This is how close it came, and how it saved itself
Iran was a decision and a few weeks away from nuclear weapons. But unlike Gaza 2023, Israel had been watching
By David Horovitz
Iranian ballistic missile launchers are targeted in Israeli airstrikes, in footage released by the IDF on June 16, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
June 18, 2025, 2:40 pm
How close was Iran to the bomb, and how far has Israel pushed it back?
The more we learn, the clearer it becomes that Israel struck in the nick of time: Iran was very close to the bomb. Its ballistic missiles were becoming a dire threat. And then there’s that derided ‘Destruction of Israel Plan’
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video statement regarding Israel’s response to Hamas’s suspension of hostage releases, February 11, 2025. (Screenshot/GPO)
February 12, 2025, 1:15 pm
Netanyahu and Abdullah are living in Trump’s world now. Is Hamas?
As Jordan’s king was praying for the Oval Office floor to swallow him up, Israel’s PM was trying to work out how high the president wanted him to jump. What about the bullies of Hamas?
By David Horovitz
From left: Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher (Courtesy)
January 22, 2025, 10:07 am
From hell to safety in a few frenzied seconds
Four hundred and seventy-one days.
By David Horovitz
Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi seen with family members and doctors at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on August 27, 2024. (Courtesy Soroka Medical Center)
August 29, 2024, 12:46 pm
Rescue, shmescue, as the loathsome Jews would say
A Muslim liberated from heroic Hamas by the hideous Zionists? That can’t be true. And if it is, I don’t want to hear it
By David Horovitz
An undated picture of four IDF surveillance soldiers held hostage by Hamas in Gaza since October 7, 2023, that was made public by their families on July 16, 2024. Behind them is a framed picture of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. From left: Liri Albag, Agam Berger, Daniella Gilboa, and Karina Ariev. (Courtesy)
July 31, 2024, 3:52 pm
With two strikes in enemy capitals, the war enters uncharted territory
As Israel moves to break Iran’s multifront stranglehold, the path ahead requires not only strategic wisdom and military tenacity, but also the internal cohesion that has been so dangerously absent
By David Horovitz
Yom Ha'atzmaut (Photo by Ari Bronstein, courtesy of flickr.com)
May 15, 2024, 12:01 pm
As Israel turns 76, little to celebrate … except resilience and a unique history
Internally divided, globally isolated, there are precious few crumbs of comfort for Israel this birthday.
By David Horovitz
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh arrives at a Liberation Youths summer camp organized by the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip in 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
May 10, 2024, 1:35 pm
Sinister Hamas terms would let it keep most hostages, win the war, inflame the West Bank
It took the US more than a day to internalize that Hamas had not in fact accepted a hostages-for-truce proposal. But the text of its ‘agreement’ is far more duplicitous than that
By David Horovitz, Times of Israel
International Criminal Court Building (OSeveno,creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)
January 26, 2024, 2:39 pm
Hamas came for everyone it could kill in Israel on Oct 7. Today, The Hague encouraged it
The ICJ accepted the South African jurists’ misrepresentation of the cause and nature of the war in Gaza, seeking to constrain Israel and thus aiding the true genocidal party, Hamas
By David Horovitz
IDF troops operate inside Gaza during the ongoing ground offensive against Hamas, in a picture released Nov. 22, 2023. (IDF Spokesman)
December 13, 2023, 12:09 pm
When Hamas is dismantled, a second war looms
There is no quick fix for either of the war’s key declared aims — bringing home all the hostages and taking apart Hamas.
By David Horovitz
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