Why Netanyahu kicks the Palestinian Can Down the Road
It's not that Netanyahu lacks a backbone that compels him to postpone substantive action relating to the Palestinians, it’s the very serious assessment that the Jewish State will be in a better situation in the future.
Iranian Drone, Israeli Counter-strike: Probing Defenses is New Normal
If Iran isn’t daunted by Israel’s pushback on Saturday, Israel will have to push back more. If Iran makes that “about” the strategic situation in Syria, the U.S. will have to push back more too.
Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech: Who Was the Real Audience?
Abbas’s blatantly skewed account of the nature of Zionism and the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict should bring Israel’s policymakers and opinion shapers to enunciate anew the story they tell their own people and the world at large.
Will Arabs and Muslims Never Accept Israel as the Jewish State?
Kedar concludes that 'Arabs and Muslims are incapable of accepting Israel as the Jewish State,' but can 'learn to live with it.'
The 2018 Winter Olympics: Divided We Stand
While liberals see the Olympics as an opportunity for negotiation, conservatives see Pyongyang’s agreement to attend as a tactic to gain benefits and not a genuine expression of warming relations.
Israel Wary of Hezbollah’s Increasing Influence on US-allied Lebanese Forces
According to Israeli military assessments, the LAF is increasingly coming under the sway of the Iranian-backed terror organization Hezbollah, which dominates Lebanon politically and militarily.
The OU, Open Orthodoxy, And Communal Decision-Making
No organization (i.e.the OU) can excommunicate anyone. It does not, however, mean that our communities lack organizing principles. Those principles operate based on individual choice. People effectively expel synagogues not compliant with mainstream halacha.
Why is Ireland Europe’s Most anti-Israel Country ?
The Irish and Jewish people share a common history of suffering cruel persecution and achieving national redemption against immeasurable odds. But today, modern Ireland is one of Europe’s fiercest critics of Israel.
Damned if you Do . . . and Trump and Netanyahu are Certainly Doing
The campaign against Trump and Netanyahu signifies a cultural disorder in the West that borders on the pathological.
Trump Admin Thwarts Irish Effort to Boycott Israel, Criminalize Trade
The Irish boycott bill was supported and pushed along by activists associated with the BDS movement, which has been dubbed a virulently anti-Semitic global campaign to economically isolate the Jewish state.
Are African Migrants the Final Straw for Liberal Jews?
Israel’s plan to deport illegal infiltrators hit a nerve in America where Jews sacralized the immigrant experience. The analogies to Jewish refugees and the Holocaust are resonating with American Jews.
Time Enough At Last
A loving recollection of her father and how his passing has inspired the author to get more out of whatever time she has in life.
Recalling The Real King Hussein
Hussein is widely viewed through the fog of history as something of a principled moderate who yearned to be a peacemaker with journalists whitewashing or ignoring its many inconvenient chapters and plentiful examples of ugly rhetoric against Israel and Jews.
Remembering Three Rachels
The authorized establishment of the town of “Rachelim” came in memoriam to Rachel Imeinu and to two martyred 'Rachels,' Rachel Drouk and Rachel Weiss who were murdered for the sin of "DWJ'-driving while Jewish.
Why the Fate of Z Street Should Concern EVERYONE
The Z Street case must be viewed in the context of what came to be known as the IRS scandal. During the first term of the Obama administration, the IRS began subjecting conservative groups that applied for nonprofit status as education organizations to the sort of special scrutiny not applied to liberal groups.
Who Needs An Honest Broker in the Middle East Anyway?
If being neutral is the equivalent of being anti-Israel, it could be that being openly pro-Israel--like Trump-- could be the only way to be that "honest broker" for peace
Holocaust Education: The Last Chance for Humanity
For the sake of the tens of millions of victims of the Holocaust, Jews and non-Jews alike, we must fight for Holocaust education, as the fate of our world, not to mention our humanity, may very well depend up on it.
The Polish Holocaust Law is Poland’s Problem, Not Israel’s
The bill, to be signed into law by Poland's President, will make Poland a mockery in Europe and place it closer to the provinces of Putin and Erdogan and create a completely unnecessary crisis with Israel.
Qatar’s Jewish Mud-Slingers
The notion that Jewish critics of Qatar are the ones who have turned it into an enemy is outrageous.
Trump’s Not So Subtle Message to the Failed Palestinian Leadership: “You’re Fired!”
Palestinian Arabs need to face the consequences of losing a war. Well, what about facing the consequences of losing an election, or of not even having one. Here too, an artificial situation is being propped up by the EU and others in the West.
What are the Palestinians’ Responsibilities for Peace?
As Abbas begins the 14th year of his 4-year term he has hardly been the model of accountability, abusing his position to secure fortunes for his family. He tolerates no dissent, marginalizing and arresting critics. If a democratic and accountable state is necessary for peace with Israel, Abbas has failed to deliver either.
Who Owns the Holocaust?
This dispute is about who sets the parameters for our understanding of what the Holocaust was and what it represented – and it is a problem that extends far beyond Poland's borders.
EU: Jewish Development of Jerusalem Historical Sites ‘Touristic Settlement’
Report claims the City of David, and a planned cable car to bring tourists to the Western Wall are “a political tool to modify the historical narrative and to support, legitimize, and expand settlements."
Why Polls on a Palestinian State are a Mirage
Ever wonder why polls consistently show that a large portion of the Israeli public supports creating a Palestinian state?
Rav Belsky: A Talmid’s Perpsective
Rav Belsky was a once-in-a generation individual; a pioneer and an advocate for the entire Jewish people. One’s background, country of origin, or religious affiliation made no difference. He was there for all of us. We mourn him on this, his second yahrzeit
Trump Echoes Talleyrand in Middle East Diplomacy
Trump must put the Palestinians on notice - there will be no more weakness, no more concessions.
UNRWA: The UN Agency that Creates Palestinian Refugees
"Since the UN took them over, the Palestinians started burying their dead at night, without declaring them.... As a result, for nearly 20 years, the official death rate in the camps was close to zero. In addition, there was a lot of movement between the camps. But these displacements were rarely recorded, so that a Palestinian could appear in several camps at the same time..."
Learning From The Larry Nassar Case
For those who still dismiss or downplay reports of abuse and say the abuser made a mistake and should be given another chance because he will do teshuvah – repent – the Nassar case proves otherwise.
Holocaust Education: Last Chance For Humanity
The task of imparting the memory of the Holocaust to the next generation is more important than ever. There is really no time to lose, as it is becoming apparent that people in nearly every nation around the world have already forgotten the Holocaust’s crucial lessons about prejudice, intolerance, and hatred.
Expelling Illegal Infiltrators from Israel – Legal and Moral
Israel, like any sovereign country in the world, has the right to determine who may enter its borders and is authorized to remove unwanted violators of its borders from its territory