Clifford D. May

Another week of attacks on Israel

For more than a year, Israel has been fighting a brutal multifront war against Iran's rulers and their terrorist proxies: Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Shia militias in Syria and Iraq.

November 26, 2024

What needs to be achieved in Trump’s second term

Dear Mr. President/President-elect: Congratulations! You're the comeback kid. Not many 78-year-olds win that title.

November 19, 2024

A few words of advice for the departing commander-in-chief Joey Biden

I imagine the past few weeks have been stressful for you and Dr. Jill. I noticed that on election day, she was dressed in red - not blue. Was her Freudian slip showing?

November 12, 2024

West’s appeasing of sworn enemies doesn’t work

Sting was -- I think he still is -- a marvelous singer. But the naive notions expressed in his 1985 song "Russians" are long past their sell-by date.

November 5, 2024

Israelis eliminate top Hamas terrorist Yahya Sinwar, but the war must go on

Last week, Israeli soldiers on patrol in Gaza encountered and eliminated Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas commander who plotted and implemented the invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the massacre that followed.

October 22, 2024

Year after Hamas attacked Israel, anti-Zionists cry out for more massacres

Last week, decent people mourned the 1,200 victims of the pogrom waged by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023 - the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.

October 15, 2024

Britain atones for its colonialist past by encouraging China’s colonialist present

You've probably never heard of the Chagos Islands, and I'm sorry to put them on your to-worry-about list..

October 8, 2024

America’s enemies not interested in diplomatic solutions

Both the U.S. and Canada claim a tiny, barren island off the coast of Maine. If Washington and Ottawa wanted to settle the dispute over Machias Seal Island, they could send diplomats to find a solution.

October 1, 2024

Israel sends pagers into battle with Hezbollah as Biden sounds another retreat

The long war that Iran's rulers and their proxies have been waging against Israel took an unexpected turn last week.

September 24, 2024

Antisemitism should be crippled whenever it arises

They say you can't kill an idea. Who are they? Quite a few people mouth this bromide, but let's focus for a moment on Josep Borrell, the European Union's top diplomat.

September 17, 2024

Twenty-three years into the long war, the threat matrix keeps expanding

Twenty-three years ago, on the sunny morning of Sept. 11, 2001, close to 3,000 people were murdered on American soil by 19 terrorists.

September 10, 2024

McMaster and commander: 13 months as Trump’s national security adviser

I've never worked in the White House, but I've spent time with people who have. Some were devoted - almost religiously - to the man in the Oval Office.

September 3, 2024

Iran holds its fire

For weeks, Israelis have been bracing themselves -- as headline writers like to put it -- for a new wave of attacks from Iran's rulers. After the July 31 killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a well-guarded government guesthouse in Tehran, the theocrats had threatened severe revenge.

August 27, 2024