Clifford D. May

Cease-fire won’t end Israel’s long war

The Nova Music Festival was billed as a celebration of "friends, love and infinite freedom." Last Oct. 6, attendees from more than two dozen countries gathered in Israel's Negev Desert, just 3 miles from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, to sing, dance and celebrate peace through the night. Published June 18, 2024

Europe’s Hamasniks: U.N., Norway, Spain, Ireland and others back the terrorists

The flag of the United Nations was flown at half-staff last week to honor the late Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran who was killed May 19 in a helicopter crash. Published May 28, 2024

A frozen conflict at best: Biden’s substitute for victory in Ukraine

President Biden is helping Ukrainians defend themselves. But he doesn't want Russia to suffer a serious defeat. Published May 21, 2024

Biden turns on Israel

Hamas leaders understand that the more the Palestinians in Gaza suffer, the more Israelis will be blamed, punished and demonized by the international community. Published May 14, 2024

China’s Communist rulers intend to replace America, establish new world order

It's been said that the last thing a fish is likely to be aware of is water. By the same token, the last thing most Americans are likely to be aware of is the world order. Published May 7, 2024

Ideological cocktail poisons American campuses

Back in December, the eminent historian Niall Ferguson wrote an essay in The Free Press that, it is now apparent, presaged the tidal wave of demonstrations now inundating college campuses around the country. Published April 30, 2024

Khamenei’s war aims: Iranian ruler intends to establish an empire, exterminate Israelis

I'm sure you've heard commentators describe Iran and Israel as "rivals" engaged in a "tit-for-tat" conflict. That misinterprets reality. Published April 23, 2024

U.S. intelligence agencies must be allowed to listen in on enemies

Last weekend's attacks on Israel could have been worse if Iran's rulers had instructed their U.S.-based operatives to simultaneously carry out a terrorist attack, and our intelligence agencies failed to learn about it. Published April 16, 2024

Wavering Biden sends message to America’s enemies and allies

"Today, the people of Israel are under attack, orchestrated by a terrorist organization, Hamas." So said President Biden six months ago Sunday. Published April 9, 2024

Iran’s nuclear buildup reflects failure of both Democratic, Republican administrations

In 1993, a massive truck bomb exploded at the World Trade Center, the first major international terrorist attack on American soil. Published April 2, 2024

Israelis will fight Hamas on their own if they must

"Israel Alone" is the headline on the cover of the March 23 issue of The Economist, a British weekly. The illustration shows an Israeli flag buffeted by a sandstorm. Published March 26, 2024

Attack TikTok, cut its Chinese Communist Party ties

In the 1920s, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union pioneered the art of disinformation. A hundred years later, the Chinese Communist Party has developed disinformation into a high-tech science. Published March 19, 2024

State of the world more threatening than Biden understands

The information President Biden conveyed last week in his State of the Union failed to convey the hard fact that the Union is now seriously threatened by an axis of anti-American regimes. Published March 12, 2024

Jordan’s Queen Rania Al Abdullah misses an opportunity

For a quarter of a century, Rania Al Abdullah has been the Queen of Jordan, and, in many ways, a model royal she has been. Published March 5, 2024

Defeating Putin in Ukraine should be goal of liberals and conservatives alike

Last Friday, President Biden announced new sanctions targeting 500 Russian officials and companies. Published February 27, 2024

Murder in the gulag: Alexei Navalny, Putin’s only serious rival, has been eliminated

While Tucker Carlson was marveling over the opulence of Moscow's subways, Alexei Navalny died in the Polar Wolf prison camp. Published February 20, 2024

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has four options

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who masterminded the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel and the worst single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, is believed to be lurking in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Gaza Strip. Published February 13, 2024

No better enemy: America continues to empower its adversaries

Seven years ago this month, then-Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that the $150 billion in sanctions relief the Obama administration was providing Iran's rulers would -- to a greater or lesser extent -- fund terrorism. Published January 23, 2024

South Africa and other antisemitic genocidaires accuse Israel of genocide

They say you can't kill an idea, and maybe they're right. Among Hitler's ideas: murdering Jews -- every man, woman and child. Published January 16, 2024