The Post-Partisan Emporium

The Hamas Proxy Posted By: Iain Davis   * * * Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (Hamas) is widely perceived to be a “proxy” of the Iranian government. Three weeks after Hamas’ October 7th attack on the communities and military installations close to the Gaza border, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said : [Hamas are] part of the axis of evil Iran has formed, an axis of terror that works by arming, training and financing Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and other terror proxies throughout the Middle East and beyond the Middle East. [. . .] In fighting Hamas and the Iranian axis of terror, Israel is fighting the enemies of civilization itself. Netanyahu’s depiction of Hamas as simply an extension of the Iranian government was utterly disingenuous. It has been widely reported , and never denied, that Benjamin Netanyahu told a 2019 meeting of his Likud Party: Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering...

  JFK: Myth vs. Reality Monika Wiesak I am writing this as someone who, through studying John F. Kennedy’s presidency, has developed a great degree of respect for him. In my first book  America’s Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy,  which focused on his presidency, I included many of his direct quotes because I believed it was important to let him speak for himself rather than have me speak on his behalf. I have done the same with my X account (https://x.com/MonikaWiesak), regularly posting clips of JFK speaking, whether it be in press conferences, formal or informal speeches, phone conversations, or meetings. In my book on his assassination , Echoes of a Lost America: Unraveling the Murder of JFK , I chose not to argue any thesis regarding the crime because I wanted to explore the evidence without bias or preconceptions. I felt that would be most fair to JFK and I wrote the book, in essence, for him. After all, he is not here to speak for hi...