Why Private Speech Doesn’t Tell Us About a Person’s Character
As a Jew, I don't care what you think about Jews. I only care about how you treat Jews.
Kirk Douglas’s Quintessential American Jewish Life
The Hollywood icon’s journey of assimilation, Jewish pride, love for Israel, and ultimately, a return to Judaism embodied hope for the future.
Why So Many Former Israeli Generals Push FOR Territorial Withdrawal
An in-depth interview with Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, on the significance of territory in modern warfare and on his disagreements with his IDF colleagues, who endorse far-reaching territorial withdrawal by Israel.
PA Arabs: Arab Leaders Talking to Israel Are ‘Traitors, Jews’
Several key Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, seem to be fed up with the ongoing Palestinian rejection of every proposed Palestinian-Israeli peace plan. The Palestinians have never even proposed a counter-offer.
The Question That Explains Almost Everything
Fighting President Trump means fighting for the very existence of the world's order and democracy in America. What could possibly give those devoid of meaning more meaning than that?
The Trump Plan: The Good, the Bad, the Unknown and the Untenable
Whether or not it is actually implemented, the “deal” cannot effectively address Israel’s demographic menace, but only perpetuate it.
What Will Happen To Jerusalem Under The Deal?
Are these Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem to b e given over to the Palestinians as part of the Trump Plan technically part of Jerusalem? The answer depends on how one looks at Jerusalem's complex and often fluctuating borders. The many changes in the city's borders over the past century have left several neighborhoods in a state of uncertainty.
The Real Reason Arabs in Israel Do Not Want to Live in ‘Palestine’
Many Arab citizens of Israel see how Palestinians living under the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip are subject to human rights violations on a daily basis.
Palestinians: Abbas Chooses Hamas Over Peace with Israel
In fact, the wording of Trump's plan is quite compatible with the position of Abbas and his PA officials in the West Bank.
Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy? (Part II)
The reason so many young people are depressed, unhappy, and angry is the left has told them that G-d and Judeo-Christian religions are nonsense; their country is largely evil; their past is deplorable; and their future is hopeless.
Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?
Though people have more money, better health care, better health, better housing, and more education, and live longer than at any time in history, they – especially young people – are unhappier than at any time since data collection began.
Trump’s Plan: Plot, Fantasy or Exercise in Realism?
It’s not clear whether it will bail out Bibi or hurt Gantz, but imagining a future Middle East that accepts most of these terms is actually a practical idea.
Al Jazeera Says No To Iranian ‘Liberation’ Of Jerusalem
In June 2015, a survey carried out by the PA-based Palestinian Center for Public Opinion found that 52 percent of Arabs living in eastern Jerusalem said they would prefer to be citizens of Israel. Note that this counts only those who weren’t afraid to reply to the pollster.
Why the Bombing Auschwitz Argument Still Matters
The Allies’ refusal to devote sufficient resources to rescue and halt the Nazi murder factory is one more reason why a sovereign State of Israel is necessary.
The ‘Crime’ of Arabs Singing to Arabs in Israel
The whole idea of boycotting Israel is designed to prevent the world from learning about the good things that Israel stands for and actually provides.
The ‘Prayer Intifada’
It’s time for Israel to reverse the misguided Dayan doctrine and send a clear message that “Palestinian liberation” of the Temple Mount and the Tomb of the Patriarchs will utterly fail.
The Palestinians and Europe’s Secret Agenda
The European Union is said to be pressuring the Palestinians to hold long overdue presidential and parliamentary elections. It is not clear, however, how the Palestinians would hold new elections at a time when the PA and Hamas are busy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip locking up their political opponents.
Holocaust Politics is Bad for the Jews
Has Yad Vashem’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz been hijacked by Israeli political rivalries and the long reach of Vladimir Putin?
No Trivial Pursuit to Know Bethlehem isn’t in a non-Existent Nation
The game show “Jeopardy!” courted controversy when giving a clue to which there can be no definitive answer as long as the Palestinians reject peace.
Newsweek Changed Its Article About Me, But…
Dear Newsweek and other disingenuous LEFTISTS: "Bring back the feathers.
How Jewish Is The ‘Jerusalem Program’?
Can a frum Jew confidently assert that it's “the common responsibility of the Jewish people” to maintain Israel as a democracy?
Am Yisrael Chai
I am not qualified to know if they’re right, but as we drove into Ben Gurion airport, I saw that someone had sprayed on a wall, “Am Yisrael Chai!”
That graffiti is absolutely right.
INTO THE FRAY: Terminating Terrorists and Assessing Assassinations
Whatever the operational efficacy of targeted assassinations may be—or not be—the conscience of every decent individual should rebel at the thought that arch-purveyors of terror should be permitted to pursue their deadly profession with impunity
The Miracle of Trump
The era of U.S. President Donald Trump is an opportunity for Israel to take big, bold steps. If the sea has split, let us not stop until we’re all the way across.
PA Sheds Crocodile Tears
Arabs who live in eastern Jerusalem will not be allowed to set the stage for a PA state that includes Israel's capital.
Newsweek Hits A New Low
If decent people working in mainstream American media want to know why many Americans don’t trust them and are willing to use the term “fake news” to describe the mainstream media, I offer one of the most glaring examples of a lie in my lifetime.