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Former President Trump’s national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said it best when she told NBC News that the eventual GOP nominee “did more for Israel than any American President in history.” So when the New York Times tried to criticize Mr. Trump for his apparent “hands-off approach” in a front-page story entitled “Trump Offers No Clear View On Gaza War” on Sunday March 3, they could not have been further from the truth.

I have never seen a war in which the “day after” is discussed as much as the war being waged against Hamas in Gaza. Israel appears to be on the road to victory, but there are still months of fighting up ahead. Because it is a guerrilla war, there has to be flexibility in understanding that it is a complex process. The fact that Hamas terrorists dress and blend in as civilians makes it even harder.

Eighty percent of Americans surveyed by Gallup and published on January 5 say the U.S. is doing the “right amount” or “not enough” in its support of Israel in its war against Hamas. Interestingly, both 40% of Democrats and 40% of Republicans said that America was “not doing enough” to help Israel. Actually, Gallup found a record high level of Americans said that support for Israel is “lacking.”

World War II officially began on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. Some might contend that it actually began in March of 1938, when Germany annexed Austria. Others would say it began with the Munich Agreement, which was an appeasement pact orchestrated by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain allowing Germany to annex the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia in September of 1938. Chamberlain has gone down in history as the “Great Appeaser.” America did not enter the war until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Many lives could have been saved had the United States entered the war earlier.

Douglas Murray, writing for The New York Post, said it best: “It’s amazing how long bad ideas take to die. That’s certainly the case with one of the least successful ideas in the world. The idea of the two-state solution in the Middle East.” 

MIT has changed a lot since the days when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended and received degrees in architecture and business and nearly a third in political science. He would have gotten that last degree had it not been for the fact that his brother Yoni was killed in the Entebbe raid in 1976. Prime Minister Netanyahu was called into action by Prime Minister Begin. He was so brilliant that only a handful of individuals accomplished what he did at MIT in the four years he spent there - and none had to take a hiatus for 40 days to fight in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 the way he did.