Pope Leo delivered a homily on Palm Sunday, March 29, to a crowd assembled below in St. Peter’s Square. It was on one of his favorite themes: the inadmissibility of war. He seems to think that war is never justified, that it never achieves anything good, and is to be avoided at all costs. This […]
At the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Command, Houthis Enter the War
The missile strike on Israel on Saturday morning by the Houthis, an Iranian-backed militia in Yemen, marked an escalation in the monthlong U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, bringing in a new actor who has now expanded the war beyond the Gulf to the Red Sea, and raises the possibility that the Houthis will again try to […]
In Iran, ‘People at the Breaking Point’
The economic collapse in the Islamic Republic of Iran has led to widespread despair. For most Iranians, mere survival has become an unendiing daily struggle. A small group — those who belong to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or the Basij, or to the Shia clerisy — have so far not shared the general fate. […]
Zohran Mamdani, Three Months On
If you thought that Zohran Mamdani might be so busy with school budgets, new routes for sanitation truck, and the latest buzz about inter-library loan poliies, you have now been disabused. He’s not too busy to hate — hate for the Jewish state, and hate, of course, for Jews in New York and across our […]
Russia Providing Intelligence to Iran on American Bases in Middle East
Russia and Iran are natural allies. They are both dictatorships, both dependent on energy sales to have their economies stay afloat, and both sworn enemies of the United States. And now we learn that the Russians have since the first week of the war been providing Iran with intelligence on American military bases located throughout […]
Iran Shows a Clear Sign of Desperation
The Islamic Republic of Iran has lowered the minimum age to 12 for participation in war-related activities. No, it’s not that boys and girls will be sent off to fight. Instead, children as young as 12 will now be used to help man checkpoints, to go on patrols (presumably to watch out for saboteurs, or […]
Ten Years Ago, Three Jihad Suicide Bombers Blew Themselves Up in Brussels
Ten years ago, on March 22, 2016, three Muslim terrorists blew themselves up in Brussels, two at the airport and one at the main railroad station, killing 32 and wounding 300. It’s a cautionary tale, about which you can find more here: “‘All I could do was wait and pray that God would come and […]
Welsh Government Spends $1,600,000 to Extirpate ‘White Privilege’
Wales, that gave us Dylan Thomas, David Jones, Richard Burton, and the Mabinogion, has now given us something much less appealing, by spending more than 1.2 million pounds ($1.6 million) on teaching students about that will-o’-the-wisp, “white privilege.” Although all over the Western world, and especially in academic centers, affirmative action rules the roost, and […]
UAE’s Ambassador to the U.S. Issues a Warning
The Gulf Arab states have been increasingly worried that the Americans might stop the war with Iran before that country has been so thoroughly battered that it will not, for a very long time, be able to threaten its neighbors again. Those states have been the object of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones that have […]
Gulf Arab States Coming Closer to Joining the Fight Against Iran
Iran’s ballistic missiles and barrages of drones have hit the Gulf states hard. The Iranians have damaged airports, apartment houses, oil and gas facilities, power plants, and desalination plants. Qatar alone says it has suffered $20 billion in damages to its infrastructure. Now the Gulf states, with the UAE in the lead, have hardened their […]