Not because its people were weak, but because their leaders were fools. You’d think that after two thousand years of persecution, pogroms, and a Holocaust, the Jewish people would know better than to trust any politician with their safety. Yet here we are, history repeating itself under the management of bureaucrats who mistake red tape for security. The founders of Israel built a fortress nation from the ashes of genocide. They turned deserts into cities and refugees into soldiers. And then, somewhere along the way, the suits and the speechwriters took over. The same people who could out-think anyone in business, medicine, and science somehow let their own survival instincts get outsourced to government clerks with rubber stamps. Politicians told the people to relax. “We’ll keep you safe,” they said. “No need for weapons. Trust the police. Trust the army. Trust the State.” So ordinary citizens were turned into spectators in their own defense. They could fill out applications, ...

Once again, Donald J. Trump did what every Democrat swore was impossible. He ended the Gaza war and brought the Israeli hostages home, not with weak-kneed “diplomacy” or empty photo ops, but with real leadership, the kind that terrifies bureaucrats and dictators alike. While Trump was out there playing chess, Joe Biden and his Democrat pals were still trying to find the checkers board. Biden’s feckless inaction turned Gaza into a graveyard. Thousands died because Democrats couldn’t decide whether to side with civilization or chaos. They chose confusion, as usual. Hamas ruled Gaza like a cult, choking their own people in a noose of hate and blaming Israel for every drop of blood they spilled themselves. Yet Democrats wrung their hands and held committee meetings while the bodies piled up. Trump walked in, said enough, and delivered results. The same “radical progressives” who once mocked him will now pretend this victory never happened. But facts don’t care about their feelings. Trum...

When it comes to arson investigations, I’m reminded of a Phoenix case where an arson investigator actually testified that his dog was better at detecting accelerants than the state crime lab. The defendant, Barbara Sloan, was dragged through prosecutorial hell because the key witness was a dog. Think about that. To admit this evidence, the handler had to testify under oath about what the dog supposedly told him. That’s not science, that’s comedy. Yet this kind of junk evidence appears to have resurfaced in the Pacific Palisades arson case against 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht. Before this arrest, the fire was blamed squarely on Southern California Edison’s decrepit equipment, Mayor Karen Bass’s inept leadership, and Fire Chief Kristyn Crowley’s department failures. Then suddenly we’re told it was arson. How convenient. With billions in damages and at least a dozen lives lost, everyone on the hook just got an early Christmas gift, a patsy to absorb all the blame. The utility’s negle...

The radical left is not some quirky political movement. It is a serious domestic threat. We can sit back, do nothing and hope their street thugs do not burn down more cities, or we can stop these wannabe Communists cold before they drag the country into more chaos. Military veterans and retired cops, it is time to wake up. Train your neighbors. Build plans. Be ready to back up federal, state, and local law enforcement when the chaos spills over. For now, rules of engagement stay defensive, but do not kid yourself. The threat will escalate, and when it does, the rules will change fast. What happened in Chicago yesterday was disgraceful. Police Superintendent Larry Snelling and Mayor Brandon Johnson let ICE agents come under deadly attack and blocked officers from helping. That is not leadership. That is betrayal. If Chicago police won’t keep the peace in protecting federal agents, then citizens who value law and order must be ready to step in and keep those agents alive by whatever me...