Strong Horse Politics: A ceasefire would make Israel look “weak”

Urs Gehriger // Die Weltwoche The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is advancing, step by step, in the Gaza Strip. Pressure on the Jewish state is increasing worldwide. Even its closest ally, the United States, is calling for “humanitarian pauses.” That would be a mistake, warns military historian Victor Davis Hanson. If Israel lays down its arms […]

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Can We Save our Universities?

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness It took the widely reported, repellent, and exempt wave of anti-Semitism and violent pro-Hamas protestors harassing Jews, finally to convince Americans that their own hallmark universities are illiberal centers of mediocrity and intolerance—and increasingly unsafe. Of course, Americans had long known that something had gone wrong at their colleges. They had increasingly

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War in Afghanistan, Palestinian Patsies and Biden Bumbling

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc on this weekend episode for analysis of GOP candidates, Biden’s press conference, the two decades of war in Afghanistan, a TikTok video praising Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America,” and the owner of the Reedley biolab on trial. Share This

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China In Town, Hospital Raided In Gaza, and Other News

In this news roundup, Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc look at the stories of the week: Biden and Xi meet in San Francisco, the IDF raids al-Shifa hospital, Biden frees billions for Iran, and the British Home Secretary is relieved of duty for suggesting favoritism for Muslim demonstrators. Share This

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Military Academies, Our Censors and the US Debt

Join Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler as they discuss the DEI culture destroying military academies, Jill Stein and others as third party candidates, the West Coast elite’s censorship efforts and their patina of respectability, and the US debt. Share This

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When Has War Even Been ‘Proportional?’

Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Proportionality in war is a synonym for lethal stalemate, if not defeat. When two sides go at it with roughly equal forces, weapons, and strategies, the result is often a horrific deadlock—like the four years of toxic trench warfare on the Western Front of World War I that resulted in

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VDH UltraThe Players of the Gazan “War” and Their Strategies: Part Four: Qatar and The Gazans

Victor Davis Hanson Qatar Like Turkey, by any classical definition, Qatar is belligerent and anti-American. It hosts the anti-Western propaganda megaphone of the Middle East Al Jazeera. It also courts the Hamas apparat, including those who helped plan the October 7 massacres. It is the financial conduit for most radical, anti-western terror groups. Yet Qatar

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The Complicit and the Insurrectionary

Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Jack Fowler consider Obama’s role in October 7, our leaders’ erroneous worries about a disproportionate response by Israel, New York city protests, the DEI industry turning the US into a third-rate country, and China’s Xi coming to San Francisco. Share This

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