Into the Heart of the Enemy: Entering a Hezbollah Terror Tunnel

The Arabic language desk of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit marked 15 years since the Second Lebanon War by inviting Israeli media commentators to visit a Hezbollah terror tunnel on the border with Lebanon. I was one of the participants.

Greater Middle East May Force China to Project Military Power Sooner Rather than Later

China may have no short-term interest in contributing to guaranteeing security in parts of a swath of land stretching from Central Asia to the East coast of Africa, but that does not prevent the People’s Republic from preparing for a time when it may wish to build on longstanding political and military relationships in various parts of the world to project power and maintain an economic advantage.

Little Enthusiasm in the Middle East for the Taliban Victory

The effect of visuals has often plagued the West in its war against terrorism. Now, the visual material from Afghanistan is coming to haunt the Islamists in the Middle East. Hamas cannot wax enthusiastic over Taliban when “the man in the street” in Kabul shows such a grim face.

Does ‘Critical Race Theory’ Apply to Israel?

The American left should stop projecting their views about “white supremacy” onto the Jewish state, most of whose population is “of color.”

ALL the ANTI-Israel News Fit to Print

What country, including the United States, does not fail to come close to its ideals?

The President America Deserves; the Mess We Saw Coming

We pay a severe price in our country’s heritage, in our children’s futures, in our own lives and safety when we elect The Cool instead of The Great or at least The Competent.

Prufrock In Elul And Teshuvah Anxiety

How can we balance the need to build intensity, to challenge ourselves and examine ourselves, with our need to avoid the trap of turning Elul, for some people, into a month of stifling uncertainty and anxiety?

The True Tenets of Judaism Categorically Repudiate BDS

Once Judaism and capitalism are conflated, left and right converge against humanity’s favorite scapegoat.

History Lesson – Biden is Obama 3.0 on Embracing Jihadists

Biden's foreign policy is so unoriginal that you could almost describe the "Biden Doctrine" -- as more and more left-wing pundits are calling it -- as "Obama on steroids."

My Sefarim Collection: A Love Story

Three to four rooms of my house were dedicated to housing books, with additional piles forming on tables, chairs, ledges, and other random pieces of furniture in the kitchen, hallway and dining room. A small beit midrash could have assembled in my home.

Keep Religion In The State Of Israel

The great drama of Jewish history – a nation exiled from its homeland due to its sins, only to be promised by G-d that its sovereignty would be restored at the end of days – has played out before our eyes…

Bennett Must Wait to Visit Washington

America today is not the America of two, twenty or forty years ago.... Israelis must recognize that and not live in the nostalgia of the past.

Moments Before Aliya…

When can we wish you a "Happy Anniversary" on YOUR aliya?

Shmita Politics: Here we Go Again

Responsible rabbinic leadership has a responsibility to harmonize halacha with the greater good of society.

Uprooting Religious Extremism From Israel

Until we eradicate such people from within our society, we need to look no further to understand why the third temple has not been built.

BBC: Leading the World Against Israel

There is little likelihood, without firm intervention by the British government, that the BBC will relinquish its leadership of the global anti-Israel movement that has contributed to so much suffering, misery and bloodshed.

Mistaken Assumptions About the Origins of Violence Among Israeli Arabs

Internal violence within the Israeli Arab community is not the result of socioeconomic deprivation. Quite the reverse, in fact.

When the Jew-bashers are Jews

Their values turn Jewish principles of justice and truth on their heads, and their Israel-bashing is but a thin veneer for a hatred of other Jews or Judaism itself.

Biden Should Reiterate Bush Policies he Supported

That includes disabusing the Palestinians of the notion that the United States will support their territorial demands.

Jews Worldwide Join Israel’s Farm Families for Challenges and Blessings of the ‘Shmita’ Year

How does resting the land work in modern-day Israel where, even during the other six years, many farm families live hand to mouth?

What Hezbollah Learned this Month

Like many Israelis, Hezbollah now understands that Israel will make no move in Lebanon without a green light from Washington that will never come.

Don’t Sleep Through Elul

Thank G-d, when it comes to teshuvah – unlike illness – it is never too late.

When We Dreamed the Impossible Dream

Maybe it was because I grew up without the Internet and had only books, seven channels on TV, and siblings for company, that I was able to enjoy the simple pleasure of peeking through these multitudes of diverse windows.

Response Address to the Lebanese Attacks on Israel is Gaza, NOT Beirut

Even if Hezbollah is responsible for the latest rocket attack on the Galilee, Hamas is culpable for the security deterioration in southern Lebanon due to its efforts to expand its terrorist activities to the territory of neighboring Arab states. Israel must establish a new equation in which lack of peace in the north is met in kind in the Gaza Strip.

Europe Kneels Before Raisi

How can the EU pay homage to a country that has made the destruction of the Jewish state and hatred of America its principal banner?

First New IDF Rule Should be Disproportionality

The nascent Israeli government is being tested on multiple fronts and must move away from the risk-aversion approach of previous leaderships.

Terrible, TERRIBLE Peter Beinart

He set out more than a decade ago to undermine the American Jewish establishment and serve as the prime catalyst for its desired failure.

For anti-Zionists, ‘Palestine’ does NOT Stop at the Green Line

When Israel’s enemies speak of “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” they don't mean just the Gaza Strip, Judea and Samaria.

Gov. Cuomo Is Entitled to Due Process

Cuomo has categorically denied all of these charges and, until the contrary is proved, he must be presumed innocent....

Priority #1: Root out Antisemitism in the Democratic Party

There is a glaring problem with Joe Biden’s choice of Deborah Lipstadt: A president who has himself trivialized the Nazi regime to make a partisan political smear appoints as his anti-Semitism envoy the person who defended him in making the repugnant comment.

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