David Horovitz
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
The Knesset has voted for changes to how the Supreme Court can make decisions. (Photo by Chris Yunker / Wikimedia Commons)
July 26, 2023, 10:58 am
Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul victory spells a tragic, disastrous defeat for Israel
The “reasonableness” law — backed by all 64 coalition members, while the 56 opposition MKs boycotted the final vote — is significant in and of itself.
By David Horovitz
Isaac Herzog (Photo by Avi Ohayon / Government Press Office, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
March 15, 2023, 1:22 pm
A speech, a sacking and a terror attack underline that Netanyahu must change course
If the fast-widening, utterly destructive rift in Israel is to be healed...it is Netanyahu who must, to echo the president, “take responsibility immediately.”
By David Horovitz
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman lights the second candle of Hanukkah at the Western Wall, accompanied by Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, Jerusalem’s Chief Sephardic Rabbi Shlomo Amar, and Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Jerusalem, Dec. 13, 2017 Photo by Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv, courtesy of flickr.com.
January 11, 2023, 5:52 pm
Justice minister sounds death knell for Israel’s inadequately protected democracy
Levin unveiled his proposals on the eve of a High Court hearing on the legality of Arye Deri returning to ministerial office.
By David Horovitz
Photo by Can Pac Swire, courtesy of flickr.com.
March 2, 2022, 10:30 am
Why Israel must stand squarely with Ukraine
Those who condemn Russia’s attempt to destroy a freedom-loving democracy bolster the pressure for actual measures to help thwart Ukraine’s overthrow.
By David Horovitz
The Iron Dome system used to intercept rockets in Israel. (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)
October 1, 2021, 9:06 am
The immorality of Democratic ‘progressives’ targeting Iron Dome
Those U.S. legislators doing their utmost to deprive Israel of its protection are attempting to abandon Israelis to that deadly fire.
By David Horovitz
February 5, 2020, 11:43 am
The art of no deal
Who's subverting Trump's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan?
By David Horovitz
African asylum seekers who had been detained at Saharonim prison in southern Israel shown being released, April 15, 2018. (Photo by Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
April 27, 2018, 9:15 am
How Netanyahu turned victory into all-around defeat in African migrant crisis
The prime minister secured a win-win arrangement, but scrapped it under pressure. Now all the asylum-seekers are staying, Israel is being battered, and his rivals smell blood.
By David Horovitz
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