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what enables Vance, Mueller and Jackson to engage in such evil? The only answer is their politics – the politics of the Trump-hating left. Leftism has given them permission to act vilely and mercilessly while thinking of themselves as fine people – just as evil doctrines have done throughout history.

Truth be told!

Even an interim Israeli government can clean-up the city, stop dithering on construction, rebuff deleterious foreign pressures, and invest in all sectors of Israel’s national capital. It can reestablish forward Zionist momentum – for the greater good of both Arab and Jewish residents, and to secure the national goal of a united, livable and luminous Jerusalem.

The Palestinians should send a delegation to Bahrain and participate in the meetings. They can make their demands and propose changes in the U.S. plan. There is no good reason for them not to participate. They can object to what President Trump has done and even demand that it be undone, but their objections will have no credibility if they continue to be no-shows.

Germany’s national antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein, recently said, “I cannot advise Jews to wear kippot everywhere all the time in Germany.” Klein’s words, which prompted strong responses from the German authorities, revealed that the German legal system and police cannot guarantee Jewish freedom of expression in the public domain.

The persistent affiliation of the American Jewish diaspora with the Democratic party – a party that is vocally and increasingly critical of Israel – raises concern over what will happen when the US eventually elects another Democratic president. When that happens, the gap between Israel and American Jewry, one of its most powerful and necessary diplomatic assets, will be even bigger than it is today.

Signs that the partisan pendulum is finally swinging back?

Notwithstanding Hamas’s recent success at partially overwhelming Iron Dome, it has failed to accomplish one of its signal goals: nothing it has done has succeeded in galvanizing the Arab population in Ramallah and Hebron to rise up against either Israel or the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Some of the countries that have to make their peace with Israel will be in Bahrain, and UN Resolution 242 should be on the table. Fifty-two years late is not too late.

Furthermore, the Manama conference is focusing on the Arab and Palestinian private sector. The private sector is perceived as having interests that are contrary to the “national interest” of the “Palestinian struggle.” The private sector wants stability. The “struggle” seeks instability.

Friedman said nothing controversial whatsoever about the West Bank, except in the eyes of those who consider any Israeli territorial or other claims illegitimate.

The position of America’s progressive Jewish leadership is clear: “Good Jews” are affluent urban professionals who happen to be Jewish but think and vote like affluent urban professionals. They support progressive Democrats, excuse anti-Semites like Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Linda Sarsour, recognize the legitimacy of the PLO and the UN, disdain Israel’s culture, democracy, and sovereignty, and join the resistance against Pres. Trump.

For now, liberal American Jews still feel as if they can support the left without having to repudiate their Zionism or their Judaism – something that’s increasingly no longer possible overseas.

According to researcher David Bryfman, “the study sends a clear message that Jewish engagement doesn’t have to end at bar or bat mitzvah if you provide young people with programming they see as meaningful. If the Jewish youth organizations can provide that, the teens will be there.”

The current rhetoric of fear over the propect of a “halachic state” isn’t a new phenomenon on the left. Once again, anti-religious discourse is being used to camouflage the left's true goal: another territorial withdrawal.

Beit Hadassah was always Jewish, not “Palestinian” as apologist Wikipedia states.

A tale of two VERY different peoples.

What will happen in the next election is uncertain, but one thing is clear: The battle lines between the militantly secular and religious camps have been drawn, and underlying it all is a struggle for the future

For David Ben-Gurion, the concept of mamlachtiut captured the perennial tension between the establishment of the state of Israel as an orderly and delimited institutional project and the view of the state as a means in an exalted process of redemption. Hence, even after its establishment, Israel would continue – as an instrument through which to fulfill an infinite vision – to be “a state in the making.”

May we make this Shavuot a time to increase our achdut, as well as our dedication to the Torah and following it's moral and ethical rules.

Additionally, just as we cannot live without water, so, too, a Jew cannot live without Torah. Just as the world would cease to exist without water, so too the world would cease to exist without Torah. The Torah is actually compared to water. Why, then, was the Torah not given next to water?

What the free world needs is a strong NATO to defend democracy against autocratic regimes like China and Russia, not one that is distracted by unnecessary internal squabbles, lest the transatlantic alliance one day cease to exist.

Once we start reinterpreting or contorting the Torah to justify what it prohibits, we lose all sense of religious consciousness and become oblivious to how far we have strayed.

In recent decades there has been a judicial change in Israel. The judiciary interpreted the laws according to the agendas and values ​​they have adopted, often contrary to the position of the elected officials in the Knesset and the government

The recent rise in military tensions in the Persian Gulf between the US and Iran introduces a heightened possibility that Iran will activate proxies against Israel. In the event of further escalation, Jerusalem must assume that Tehran’s plans will include possible proxy attacks on Israeli territory and overseas Israeli targets.

All people who are working to ensure that the free world remains free will welcome President Donald Trump's visit, which is presumably intended to cement even further the exceptional connection between the United Kingdom and the United States.

As a people, Jerusalem is our capital, but at the same time, each and every one of us also has our own private Jerusalem. It seems that herein lies the magical secret of this city.

Sadly, ever since Corbyn's unexpected election as leader in 2015 and the rapid growth in the numbers of far-left members who adulate him, antisemitism has become the core identifying characteristic of the Labour Party.

A recent annual survey of Arab youth provides insights that should inform autocrats’ quest for social and economic reform. The survey also suggests, as do the intermittent anti-government protests that continue to erupt in different parts of the Arab world, that Western and Middle Eastern interests would be better served by more nuanced US and European approaches toward the region’s regimes.

One issue unites the last two presidents: support of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the PLO at the expense of American citizens harmed by Palestinian terrorists.