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October 2013

HARVEY MANSFIELD: WHO WAS MACHIAVELLI-His Philosophical Musings on Truth are Just as Important as his Work on Politics.

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Machiavelli-s-enterprise-7706 Five hundred years ago, on December 10, 1513, Niccolò Machiavelli wrote a letter to a friend in Rome describing one day in his life as an exile from Florence and remarked casually that he had just completed writing The Prince. This momentous book, together with its companion, the Discourses on Livy, neither published until […]

ELLIOTT ABRAMS: THE GAZA TUNNELS-CEMENTING SUPPORT FOR HAMAS

http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2013/10/17/cementing-support-for-hamas/ At the end of May 2010, Israel seized control of a ship called the Mavi Marmara as it approached Gaza. It intended to violate Israel’s blockade of Gaza, which is meant to stop weapons from reaching Hamas; the ships carried no humanitarian cargo. Israel stopped the ship, but the incident did Hamas some good: […]

Column One: Israel and the New Munich By Caroline Glick

http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=329046       The Iranians have given no indication that they would be willing to suspend all uranium enrichment.           Speaking to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday, Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz explained Israel’s concerns about the nuclear negotiations with Iran in Geneva. “We’re worried Geneva […]

Reversing a Weak Defense by Peter Huessy

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4020/weak-defense At present the military is not being allocated enough money to carry out the tasks it is being asked to do by the realities of our security. “While the military will run to the sound of the guns, we may not be ready to go.” — General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the U.S. Joint […]