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Maybe if Israeli leaders today, would deal with the Arab world and “Palestinians” the same way, they would get the same results as Yiftach’s leadership achieved, “And Ammon was subdued before the Children of Israel.” (Judges 11:33)

The Ireland Israel Alliance also accuses the bill's supporters of hypocrisy, and cites their failure to condemn analogous situations in which Irish firms invest in international companies that do business in other occupied territories around the world.

Independence Day reflections on leadership, vision, and courage

What these advocates of public secularism fail to understand is that all religious adherents benefit from the freedom to publicly acknowledge their faith and all suffer when the government treats religion as toxic or unworthy of public display.

As a child of Holocaust survivors, I am appalled that supposedly intelligent individuals cannot distinguish between American detention centers and Nazi concentration camps

History will reflect kindly upon President Trump’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan.

The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning has the place it does because my grandfather had mastered teaching that you can rely on the halacha to deliver the nechama.

A few weeks ago, we ran an op-ed by Rabbi Yaakov Menken and Monica Burke titled “The Equality Act: A Direct Assault On Jewish Values.” Below is Rabbi Michael Broyde’s response to that op-ed plus further comments by Rabbi Menken.

From time immemorial, Egypt has always relied on the Nile River.

Sweden’s Social Democrat PM Stefan Löfven has announced that in 2020 his country will host an international antisemitism conference to commemorate the Holocaust. This is perplexing in view of both Sweden’s and the Social Democrat party’s abysmal records on antisemitism and anti-Israel incitement. Jewish organizations should make an effort to prevent the Swedish government from turning this conference into a PR stunt.

A degree of formal distance between Jerusalem and Washington is useful in Israel's diplomatic interactions.

New elections [the initiative of Mahmoud Abbas] are certain to result in the creation of another Hamas-controlled entity in the West Bank. The Palestinians would end up with two Hamas-run mini-states, one in the West Bank and one in the Gaza Strip.

Islamophobia, like much Muslim discourse, is based on an appropriation and inversion of Jewish experience and precepts.

On Route 4370, we have two sides of a road. On one side we have Arabs and Jews driving on the same stretch of highway. These are the Arabs who have accepted the situation and are making the best of things. Israelis are happy to coexist with them on the same road. Just as they are happy to work with them in Bahrain. Those on the other side of the road, refuse to see Jews as human beings

Israel is enjoying unprecedented close ties with the U.S., which is never something to take for granted. At the same time, we must never ignore the potential threats to those ties.

The academics who support BDS

The Hamas charter quotes Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." These anti-Semitic views predate Israel's establishment.

On June 16, Fatah posted on its official Facebook page a large photo of a masked Palestinian about to throw a rock—that is, about to attempt to stone a Jew to death.

The Iranian regime’s worst fear is a foreign invasion. In order to bring the mullahs to the negotiating table, the US should eliminate the regime’s proxies in Iran’s Iraqi and Syrian “near-abroad” and bring that threat into full relief.

A full seven years after demolition orders were first issued, Israel’s Civil Administration finally removes squatters and demolishes illegal structures in Samaria.

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad believe that the rounds of escalation serve their interests and are important in their own merit as they help demonstrate their commitment to the struggle against Israel. The escalations enable them to boast of their military capabilities, mobilize the population to the cause of fighting Zionism, distract the Gaza population from their daily miseries, and gain economic assistance from Qatar, while blaming Abbas for the difficulties in Gaza and pressuring the PA, Egypt, Qatar and Israel to improve living conditions in Gaza.

The corruption and incompetence of Abbas have in fact undercut his ability to disrupt the conference and the steps that will follow

“Peace to Prosperity” is certainly an ambitious title for the Bahrain Conference, which offers an “out of the box” plan to handle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The US vision essentially turns the “refugees” from liabilities into assets, thereby taking the refugee issue off the table. This concept has an historic precedent: the resettlement initiative presented by UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold on June 15, 1959. Both plans received the same response from Palestinians: angry dismissal.

In a 31-page opinion issued last week, seven justices of the United States Supreme Court confirmed a view of religious crosses maintained by leading rabbinic scholars from the thirteenth century to our day.

The parshah’s main message: that Hashem wants the Jewish people to live in Eretz Yisrael. Only Religious Zionist websites dare address this topic.

Settlements neither explain Palestinian unwillingness to make peace with Israel nor cause traffic jams in Tel Aviv. Stop using them as a thinly veiled smokescreen for anti-Israel sentiment.

In a sense, we are prisoners of our biology and experience.  But that doesn’t mean we can’t find the key to freedom.  And that’s what free will really is all about.

In other words, the Palestinian state-to-be, which has already been recognized as an actual state by more than two-thirds of the world, insists it has no responsibility whatsoever for a whopping 40 percent of its population. This, to put it mildly, is not how you behave if you seek to become a functioning state.

It’s not complicated; any viable peace plan should help us and our allies win, while forcing our enemies to lose.

The underlying message of the U.S.-sponsored summit in Manama exposes the fact that the P.A. and PLO no longer represent the interests of the Palestinians.