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J Street’s cynical political strategy: Say one thing in public, say something different in private; Manipulate Jewish leaders and reporters; and think up new ways to embarrass and pressure Israel.

Iran is very notably inferior to its enemies in the realm of conventional military and intelligence operations.

As Arabs were working with the Nazis to defeat the British, the Jews in Palestine volunteered to protect the British position in the Mediterranean

How October 7 Conditioned the Israeli Psyche

I have struggled with what feels like a new full-time job. Just like you, I am now a trauma management specialist. This job takes a real chunk out of my schedule. Psychological warfare is real.

It wasn’t only the illusions of Jews in Israel that were shattered on Oct. 7. Many Jews around the world had built their Jewish identity on the mission of creating a more just and perfect society – the program of tikkun olam.

These radical viewpoints suggest that a Harris Administration will express hostility towards the Jewish state and American Jews who support Israel.

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Basic to the scheme is a compliant mainstream media that will not obsess over covering a presidential candidate who is, well, a virtual automaton – even though reporters and journalists would rather have the opportunity to verbally engage him (or her).

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Goldenberg has also been a leading proponent of deepening diplomatic relations with Iran and an ardent supporter of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal – which most Israelis believe presented an existential threat to their country by providing a pathway for Iran to develop nuclear weapons and achieve hegemony in the Persian Gulf.

Finally, in May 1990, Bush couldn’t take it any longer. Ross’s promises about the moderate Arafat crumbled as a PLO member-organization was caught trying to carry out a massacre on the Tel Aviv beachfront.

Both Israel and Hezbollah learned much about tunnel fighting from the IDF's war in Gaza.

Hamas is now in dire need of a ceasefire because its leaders want to retain its power in the Gaza Strip.

Hizbullah has accompanied the tunnel video with a recording of one of his agents in the south who sent a mocking message warning Israelis that Hizbullah fighters might pop from attack tunnels dug under Israeli territory.

She is a partner of Hamas, and a useful idiot for Iran and Hezbollah. As with all Amakekites, she has picked up the banner against Am Yisrael

A Jewish-Arab comparison in WWII: Jews parachuting behind enemy lines in WWII and providing technological savvy.

Countless civilian deaths in both Israeli and Gaza have doubtless resulted from signals sent by the Biden-Harris administration that they are hostile to Israel, determined to have Hamas win, and still fund Iran.

The hallmark of a Yid – our special koach – is that we believe in the future. Sometimes that future won’t happen for a long time, but we believe that ultimately, the good will come.

The modern Orthodox world (Yeshiva University, Touro, Skokie and other institutions) has long ago made its peace with secular learning. Even Ner Yisrael offers a program with Loyola University. But most of the yeshivish veldt is still wrestling with this issue.

Instead of fixating on a ketz hageulah (end of redemption), which places the burden on G-d to act, we should embrace the approach of being metzapeh l’yeshua and mechakeh lo, never despairing and continuing our mission with hope and purpose.

It wasn’t the he said-she said exchanges that were most troubling, although we think Ms. Harris was more forthcoming on the embargo issue than she is now willing to let on.

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It bears repeating: a small group of political operators arbitrarily chose someone who had never gotten even one vote in support of her being president from Democrats over someone who was twice the overwhelming choice of Democratic presidential primary voters.

Radical Islam vandalizes the image of G-d, creates a cult of death and tramples the notion of divine image.

If Goldenberg was still a voting Israeli – he renounced his citizenship – he’d vote on the far left of the Israeli political spectrum and he represents the radical left of the American Jewish community.

Koheles had it right when he wrote, To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.

What the police did not do was arrest the gangs of armed Muslim men who took to the streets across British cities.

In the annals of Israeli military history, a persistent myth has long influenced strategic thinking: the notion that the Israeli public is hypersensitive to...

[T]he likelihood of Iran launching another attack against Israel in retaliation for Haniyeh's assassination appears to be receding, not least because Tehran is well aware that, in any major military confrontation with Israel, it will inevitably be the loser.