Here . Plus a mention of my book and podcast: October 7 was the paradigm shift. Hamas had been escalating for years, from genocide accusations during Cast Lead in 2008-2009 to the first coordinated cognitive-kinetic front in 2021, where narrative operations ran in parallel with rocket barrages. The October 7 attack was designed from inception to trigger a cognitive campaign whose returns would dwarf the military costs. It worked. Israel paid a political and reputational price

Who is winning the war? Israel is not losing. Every day that Iran’s military infrastructure is degraded or destroyed is a good day for Israel. The United States does not seem to be winning. Donald Trump has failed to meet the objectives he set for the war: Iran’s hardline Islamist dictators, and the fascistic Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are still in charge. The regime hasn’t lost the capacity to make nuclear weapons. And the long-suffering Iranian people continue to su

Who is winning the war in Iran? Donald Trump’s apparatchiks  can call it whatever they want: it’s a war. And, a month later, it’s still raging. A month ago, this writer made ten predictions about why the war. Let’s see how accurate they were. Leadership. I said both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were unpopular in their respective countries - and might get less popular. That has certainly been the case for Trump. As of today, Trump is the most unpopular p

Since I was a kid – since this day in 1972 , in fact, when I started writing a daily journal – I have always taken note of April 4, and said to myself:   “April 4.  Dr. King.” Today, more than half a Century ago, Martin Luther King was murdered by a racist in Memphis.  Dr. King was a giant of a man, the one whose message continues to resonate across the ages, because racial hatred continues unabated. He was the one who first said that “anti-Zionism” was, in fact, just plain o

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Years ago, back when CBC TV still valued debate, I used to appear on a panel show called Counterspin . Its host was Avi Lewis. Counterspin was on every day, and it had some other hosts, but I don’t remember any of them. I remember Avi, though. We’d sit around an elevated table and debate stuff. Usually, we’d yap about the news of the day, from the Left or the Right or whatever. I don’t remember any of that, either. But I remember Avi. He was really, really smart. He was charm