Swords of Iron

Indicting Israel unfairly: Defining genocide broadly

We cannot be so hard-hearted to deny Palestinian suffering, exacerbated by Israeli operational failures, but we cannot let Hamas destroy us.
Indicting Israel unfairly: Defining genocide broadly
Gaza, Jul 27, 2025. Photo by TPS-IL

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Why won’t the world provide the help Gazans need?

The international community is paying close attention to events in Gaza. UN resolutions, mass demonstrations, innumerable speeches and statements from politicians of all stripes. Yet one response is curiously absent. There have been almost no offers to take in refugees from Gaza.
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Even After the War in Gaza, Israel Will Have to Hunt Down Hamas’ Leaders

In mid-September 1972, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir convened a secret meeting of cabinet ministers and security officials. Days earlier, 11 Israeli athletes had been murdered on the sidelines of the Olympic games in Munich by Black September, a notorious Palestinian terrorist group.
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Attitudes of US Jews in the Third Week of “Iron Swords”: The JPPI and WZO poll

A significant increase in the feeling among Jews that the war negatively impacts their
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Iran is no mere adversary, it is America’s mortal enemy

Todays democratic softness toward Iran began in 2007, when Barack Obama claimed his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton was imprisoned by “Washington Groupthink.”
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Hamas massacre was not a struggle for liberation

 These international crimes undermine the foundations and security of the international community and violate universal moral values and humanitarian principles.
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Feminists Are Consenting to Hamas’ Rape Culture

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What is the price of Israeli sovereignty?

The current attack, in itself, is not an existential threat to Israel. The dissolution of the covenant of fate is an existential danger.
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Faith restored…in Israelis

From the ruins of our faith in our leaders and in the government, a new faith is springing up with extraordinary force
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Antisemitism, as it is

Once again, we are seeing a direct correlation between armed conflicts in Israel and the rise of antisemitism across the globe
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