Enter Vengeance
When the law fails to do its job, the morality of self-help presents itself as a viable option. Something, after all, must be done.
Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. He has written numerous works of fiction and nonfiction and hundreds of essays in major national and global publications. He is the legal analyst for CBS News Radio and appears on cable TV news programs. His most recent book is entitled “Saving Free Speech . . . from Itself.”
When the law fails to do its job, the morality of self-help presents itself as a viable option. Something, after all, must be done.
If you’re cheering for Hamas, then you’re on the side of those who brought down the World Trade Center. On 9/11, Palestinians threw candy in celebration.
If bringing the hostages home is going to take place, only Israel can be relied upon to accomplish it.
If Biden has some notion about how to end this war, he should consider this easy-to-remember axiom: “Cease-stupid, not ceasefire.”
Amal Clooney, yes wife of George, was one of the three “experts” that advised the ICC to equate Western democracy with Islamic terror.
Ripped from the headlines, yes, but “Law & Order” will probably pass on this storyline. It’s too preposterous, especially for prime time. And, yet, it is all embarrassingly true.
The past eight years have been one slow death march of the Democratic Party’s abandonment of its Jewish voting bloc.
When American flags are dismounted and set aflame, and a statue of George Washington has been outfitted in the full regalia of a jihadist outlaw, a clear message is being sent: We want to see Tel Aviv, and Tennessee, both burned to the ground.
Something has gone terribly wrong when kids, raised the world over on Sesame Street, have forsaken Bert and Ernie, and their colorful Muppet cohorts, for murderous jihadis far grouchier than Oscar.
In the spirit of Passover, what will make this Bond different from all other Bonds is that Aaron Taylor-Johnson is . . . Jewish.