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The Biden administration’s foreign policy is rapidly coming into view. Despite rhetoric designed to mollify Middle Eastern allies, the trajectory of decisions clearly favors a return to the Obama policy of elevating Iran at the expense of Israel and Sunni states. More broadly, key moves weaken the US stance against China while ensuring domestic turmoil. American allies will have to adjust to a period of American weakness and possibly even betrayal.

Israel scarcely needs the absence of a phone call to tell it that it has a grave problem with the new occupant of the White House.

It was quite a few years later when we met again at his home in Yerushalayim. The Rav’s octogenarian body was confined to a wheelchair but his neshamah remained light as could be.

So, what comes first? Do we first pour out our hearts to HaShem or do we take action and then daven?

President Joe Biden regards himself as a champion of decency. He is equally committed to reengaging with international institutions. Assuring decency toward Israel in United Nations fora would be a good way to demonstrate both.

We all wish to see peace between Israel and the Palestinians but we also wish to see justice for our families

Those who supposedly have a direct line to G-d praise matchmakers for their selfless, holy work. The future of the Jewish people depends on them!

The more certain we are that we're right, the greater the chances that we're wrong

IDF Chief of General Staff Aviv Kochavi’s January 26 speech conveyed important messages to multiple audiences. The most notable was that the IDF is preparing for action against Iran’s nuclear program even if it has to do it on its own.

Cloaked in the laughter of millions over 25 years ago, the appropriation of Holocaust terminology is manifesting itself in today’s political discourse — and it is no longer funny. Nazi comparisons have transcended political lines, with both parties and pundits of all stripes partaking in this unsavory rhetoric.

[F]ortunately, many members of the new Washington team have impressive academic and practical resumes. It is in everyone's interest to hope that they will see themselves not as figures in a game of ethnic tokenism but the servants of the American demos at a difficult time.

The United States does not have to appease the Europeans over Iran in order to cement the trans-Atlantic alliance. Instead, it should press the Europeans to increase their military spending to merit the close relationship, especially in the face of a Russia that poses a greater threat to Europe than it does to the US.

B’tselem casts the very existence of a Jewish state open for Jewish immigration as evidence of “Jewish supremacy.”

Only when we understand the other side of the argument can we truly understand our own.

If the Civil Administration is unable (or unwilling) to protect and save the Land of Israel, then someone else needs to. The time has come for a comprehensive reform, or sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, or both

Israel, in fact, has vaccinated more Palestinians than any Arab country.... Israel is the only country that actually has so far given the vaccine to Palestinians.

UNRWA spent four times as much on each Palestinian "refugee" in 2016 as the UNHCR spent on any refugee elsewhere in the world.

The Swamp is terrified of Trump – still. That explains their fixation on eradicating him and his movement.

Of course, if Israel had made several hundred Palestinian Arabs homeless, the usual suspects would howl.

The coronavirus pandemic has sparked widespread conspiracy theories. Such theories are an integral part of contemporary Western culture, even in places that are purportedly enlightened. The irrational elements in Western society are very significant, and it will take serious study to begin to understand the many ways in which this irrationality affects Western attitudes.

One has to wonder why, despite a star-studded list of generals and other well-known figures, the left is unable to produce a leader whom the public can trust.

I got the coronavirus while I was in my own home while working from home during a lockdown from my own mother-in-law, who was in denial about having corona for she had been vaccinated and thought it was impossible to get it due to that.

Mixed messages have been released from appointees of the new U.S. government as far as Mideast policies. Could the new Biden administration be floundering in incoherence and arguments between opposing factions?

Minister Gallant appropriately recognized that the anti-Israel political agenda promoted by B'Tselem is a glaring contradiction to the goals of the education system.

Rumors are circulating that an Israeli-Turkish rapprochement might occur soon. Jerusalem and other regional capitals should not fall yet again for Ankara’s deceptions.

As we observed during the US presidential election of 2020, the presumption that tolerance and pluralism connote openness and acceptance is false. American Jews in particular have once again been forced to choose between their “pluralistic” tolerance and their Jewish identity.

After weeks of being implored to “stick it to the haredim,” the police finally gave in to the media’s not-so-subtle demands, bringing the country the closest it's ever been to a civil war.

The unprecedented fusion between the Democratic Party and corporate America bodes ill for the Jewish state.

{Reposted from the Sultan Knish website} When the Black Lives Matter riots raged in cities around the country a spectrum of the leftist oligarchy, from...

There is one reason, and one reason only, why Abbas is now talking about holding general elections: to continue milking the cash cow he has in the form of American and European governments. Abbas wants the money to ensure his continued dictatorial rule over the Palestinians.