There are always loud minorities on the other side of any issue, even whether gravity exists or not. We shouldn’t let them become a distraction. Fixating on them sure doesn’t help our allies in Israel or Ukraine, or our Jewish friends at home.
The prospect of a regional war in the Middle East is looming large in the minds of global leaders as Israel readies tens of thousands of soldiers to invade the Gaza Strip and dismantle the leadership of Hamas in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks carried out by the group last weekend.
Missing from much of reporting on this war, to date, is evidence of a basic understanding of the perilous strategic situation Israel finds itself in as a ground invasion of Gaza begins.
Perhaps the live-streaming of a 21st century pogrom will make our leaders and our media think twice before blithely tossing around words like “racist” and “hate” to describe merely disapproved beliefs.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features The Hub‘s executive director Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with New York Times columnist and Pulitzer prize winner, Bret Stephens, about Israel’s war against Hamas and its geopolitical dynamics as well as the pervasiveness of anti-Semitism.
Israel needs to achieve an “unequivocal victory” over Hamas in the Gaza Strip in the wake of a deadly surprise attack by Hamas terrorists on Saturday, said Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, in an exclusive interview with The Hub.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features The Hub’s executive director Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with Janice Gross Stein, the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the department of political science at the University of Toronto, about the surprise attack launched by Hamas terrorists on Israel from the Gaza Strip early on Saturday morning, killing at least 250 Israelis.
The Hub’s editor-at-large Sean Speer spoke with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum about what happens next in the region and what the response should be in Canada and the rest of the world.
In this new world, it isn’t enough to talk about a “feminist foreign policy” or treat foreign policy as an extension of domestic politics. We must take our defence and security seriously and dedicate the scarce resources of attention and funding to strengthen them.
This is the forty-first episode of The Hub’s bi-weekly series featuring Sean Speer in conversation with leading author, journalist, and thinker David Frum. The two discuss the political controversy in Canada over the attendance of a Ukrainian man who fought for a Nazi unit at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech to the Canadian Parliament and what the episode tells us about the priorities of Canada’s political class.
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