David M. Weinberg
Yes to Schadenfreude
Everybody who wants to see the West triumph over the radical Islamo-fascist camp led by Iran smirked and smiled just a bit this week when thousands of beepers simultaneously exploded in the pockets of Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon and Syria. Such “schadenfreude,” German for satisfaction felt at someone else’s misfortune, is more than reasonable. In […]
Haredi Draft Ideology Debunked
There is no solution to the haredi draft issue. Haredi leaders are not budging – despite October 7, despite the near-existential threat situation Israel finds itself in across seven fronts, despite the attendant acute military manpower crisis, despite the enormous sacrifices in dead and wounded and kidnapped and displaced, and despite financial deprivation and household […]
Video: The Myth of Palestinian Demilitarization
Every Israeli-Palestinian peace deal since the 1993 Oslo process began required Palestinian authorities to dismantle terrorists’ infrastructure in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and the Gaza Strip, and prohibited a large-scale arms buildup, David Weinberg reminded participants in the Jewish Policy Center’s January 11 webinar. Palestinian demilitarization, a myth from early in the “peace process,” […]