The barbaric slaughter of Jewish innocents by Hamas 15 months ago not only triggered a determined counter-attack, writes Caroline Glick at Jewish News Syndicate, it opened the way to a strategic victory for Israel over the enemies ringing it and, even more significantly, a kind of psychic “rebirth” or “resurrection” – Tkuma in Hebrew – of Israeli resolve, self-confidence and strategic independence from the U.S.
The Paper-Pushers Who (Barely) Control America’s Skies
Fans of the 1999 movie Pushing Tin will recall frenetic scenes of air traffic controllers working to keep airliners from colliding in crowded skies. The current reality, writes John Tierney in City Journal, is far worse. Control tasks at U.S. airports today are still exchanged using paper “flight strips”. In contrast to this “international disgrace”, writes Tierney, European and even Canadian control towers have gone nearly all-digital.