“ If you want to give reparations, how about all the people who died fighting in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and Korea? What did they get,” asks Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Victor Davis Hanson reacts to pro-Palestinian protests marching through Jewish neighborhoods in… Continue reading NYC’s Targeted Antisemitic Marches, Open Borders Fallout, and the Four Horsemen of Antisemitism
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Who or What Will Finally End Hamas?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Hamas was born and exists to kill Jews, seek the destruction of Israel, and, to some extent, overthrow or subvert pro-Western Arab governments. Period. For those ends, it diverted billions of dollars from the people of Gaza to build a vast subterranean labyrinth of military headquarters and arsenals. It expropriated… Continue reading Who or What Will Finally End Hamas?
How Biden and Obama Failed in the Middle East
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness The short answer to why both the Biden and Obama administrations failed to achieve peace in the Middle East is that they took actions opposite to Trump’s current efforts, which have led to a ceasefire. First, consider Iran. Iran was flush with cash, on a trajectory toward a nuclear weapon,… Continue reading How Biden and Obama Failed in the Middle East
The Pieces of Trump’s Peace
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness What did Donald Trump do differently to obtain at least temporary calm in the Middle East compared to the failed efforts of past administrations, foreign powers, and the United Nations? Let us count ten different approaches. Trump curtailed a considerable amount of Iranian oil income and its dispersal. He stopped,… Continue reading The Pieces of Trump’s Peace
In the End, Everyone Hated the Iranian Theocracy
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness It is hard even to digest the incredible train of events of the last few days in the Middle East. Iran had been reduced to an anemic, performance-art missile attack on our base in Qatar—the last Parthian shot from a terrified regime, desperate for an out—and a ceasefire. Iran would have… Continue reading In the End, Everyone Hated the Iranian Theocracy
The Ordeal and Triumph of Mr. Netanyahu
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Ordeal After the October 7 massacres, the obituaries of the long political career of Benjamin Netanyahu, published both in Israel and in the West, became orthodox. He was considered as politically inert as Donald Trump once was after January 6, 2021. The conventional wisdom speculated not if, but only when… Continue reading The Ordeal and Triumph of Mr. Netanyahu
A Media Beyond Caricature
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness CBS’s iconic 60 Minutes has had plenty of scandals and embarrassments in its long 57-year history, most notably the fake-but-accurate Dan Rather mess. Yet never has it found itself in greater disrepute than in 2024. Donald Trump, for good reason, recently declined to join 60 Minutes for its traditional election-year in-depth interviews of the… Continue reading A Media Beyond Caricature
Try a Little Honesty About Israel
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Both the Harris-Walz presidential ticket and now lame-duck President Joe Biden keep insisting that they are Israel’s best friend. A snarly Biden recently bragged at a contentious press conference, “No administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none. And I think [Netanyahu] should remember that.” Yet the… Continue reading Try a Little Honesty About Israel
How To Blow Up the Middle East War in Five Easy Steps
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war. So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on September 29, 2023—and just eight days before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis—Biden’s… Continue reading How To Blow Up the Middle East War in Five Easy Steps