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With all due respect to Dorothy Parker, "Girls who wear glasses, SHOULD get passes"

Reasons for NOT extending Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. (Suffice it to say, the views are the author's and not those of The Jewish Press Online)

If the U.S. president doesn’t do anything more than declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move the embassy, the Israelis would deem it sufficient.

Without fanfare or public announcements, the Israeli government has been quietly using laws available to them to create a de facto change on the ground within communities beyond the “green line.”

In life, we have all sorts of rationalizations for our behaviors – they will make our life, our experience, our homes better, more inviting, larger… but they do not. The “sweetness” is a lure that diminishes our life.

Despite the existence of anti-Semites and anti-Semitism in America

obvious takeaway from this week’s annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington D.C. is that Ambassador Nikki Haley is more of a superhero than Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman.

The embassy issue shared an important structural similarity with the Iran deal: The president must sign periodic waivers to keep either deal alive. Consequently, moving the embassy to Jerusalem turned out to be the perfect issue to show that Trump really would defy the world and nix the Iran deal

Despite the current quagmires of the top U.S. and Israeli leaders, the public seems to be standing by them.

Growing concern Trump admin will cave to Iran, legitimize missiles capable of hitting Israel

It’s a dangerous game: Iran wants to force Israel into a state of perpetual check; in other words, paralysis before death.

The viewing audience calls in to C-Span, vilifying Israel or world Jewry, for all the world to hear, while the host broadcasters remain silent and blameless. The accusations go unopposed and unchallenged

In my view, the statement is fairly radical in its departure from what has been U.S. policy for decades. How?

The Presbyterian Church USA continues a practice of Jew-baiting that the denomination’s peace activists and leaders have been perfecting for more than a decade.

Two distinguished members of Greece's parliament, whose party has a good chance of defeating the current leadership, are breathing new life into the political system and reinvigorating crucial partnerships with Israel and the United States.

If the words “never again” are to have any meaning, Iran’s aggression will have to be countered.

The Eastern Mediterranean has entered a new period of high volatility, with Israel and Greece in the eye of the storm. Both countries are facing an upgraded strategic challenge from Turkey and Iran. This is not simply an interstate problem but a broader crisis that will influence the future geostrategic physiognomy of the Eastern Med.

The hypocritical use of the word"treason" by the sanctimonious Left.

It’s not a self-evident truth that allowing some teachers and other adults in a school to be armed is a crazy idea. . On the contrary, having some adults who work at schools be trained in the responsible use of guns makes so much sense that the left’s blanket opposition seems puzzling.

Israel integrated its brothers and sisters from the Arab and Muslim world. The Arab world put its Palestinian brothers and sisters in refugee camps, treating them as political pawns — and festering sores —in its persistent war against the Jewish state.

6 months after Jewish leaders began trooping off to Qatar, the op-ed columns of US Jewish and Israeli publications remain filled with lively discussions on the affair. And well they should be. Because this sordid episode has laid bare patterns of behavior among some Jewish leaders that need changing.

If Democrats aren’t as comfortable supporting the pro-Israel lobby, it’s not because it has shifted to the right. It’s because some on the left have either have forgotten its purpose or are no longer interested.

The State of Israel’s identification with Jewish nationhood is under attack from large parts of the international community, and from Israeli Arabs, Palestinians, post-Zionist Jews, and anti-Jewish Jews. The “Jewish” side of the formulation “a Jewish and democratic state” is under internal assault as well.

By treating one of Lebanon's claima as legitimate, the State Department is not only encouraging aggression but proving, once again, that international guarantees to Israel are worthless.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s state visit to India was predictably full of pomp and circumstance. More importantly, it underscored yet again the closeness that now characterizes the bilateral relationship.

At this AIPAC Conference, neither VP Pence, nor Ambassador to the UN Haley, made any call for Palestinian statehood. The ONLY speaker to call for a Palestinian state was made by the head of AIPAC, Howard Kohr

There was never a sovereign country called "Palestine" matching the maps that Abbas and Fatah like to parade around.

"Go West young man." More Palestinians should consider Chile as a place to call home

The first reason that so many deal-makers have failed is that peace is never negotiated and is always imposed by the side that wins a war. There is not any instance in history, which is primarily a narrative of countless wars, in which an outsider has imposed peace on unwilling belligerents.

The question is clear — why? Why would Jews vote for a party that has a long history of anti-Israel sentiments, which continue to grow? Why would they vote for an ideology that embraces anti-Semitic radicals?