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A while back, the first hostages came out, I recall viewing a video with a split-screen down the middle showing Hamas’s insidious reaction on one side juxtaposed with the Israelis on the other side. The difference between good and evil was palpable.

Posted on FB page of Former Jordanian Minister of Interior mere hours after the assassination

Hamas is the Brotherhood and they're still here.

Can the knowing establishment of a center for terrorism ever be morally correct?

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Most Israelis I have ever told this story to, finish the ending for me. Honestly, Israel and aliyah can drive you crazy…

Here’s the truth: I’ve been in the rooms. I’ve seen and heard firsthand the deep concern and genuine solidarity of my colleagues – most of them Christians – who are appalled by the surge in antisemitism.

The rationale for Arab states joining the Abraham Accords during the first Trump term was that they were desperate for ways to deter Iranian aggression and, seeing the handwriting on the wall for economies based on oil revenues, to end their dependence on them.

The term is not in the Torah because it is a modern political invention.

Trump and his special envoy Steve Witkoff are being played and appear not even to know it.

It is the obligation of every state to enforce the law of nations. This means there is a universal legal responsibility to support Israel’s ongoing counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East.

It is too early to decide whether the president’s Mideast trip will bear fruit, but it has already been subjected to the excesses and warping and fakery by the anti-Trump media.

I’ve spent so much time in yeshivas and shuls. The Rabbis joke with me on a Sunday, ‘Be careful when you leave the shul that you don’t walk into your Mass with a kippah on.’”

A spat between two MAGA media personalities reflects the ideological split in the movement—and in the Trump administration.

The two-state paradigm, once widely endorsed, is increasingly viewed as untenable given the persistent threats and failures of past negotiations.

I tried not to cry; I did not feel that I had earned the right to do so.

Once upon a time, in the quiet of small semachot, we heard what mattered most. Have we gone deaf again?

Israel's "deep-state apparatus" is "working to undermine elected officials and actually the public," said Knesset Member Simcha Rothman.

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So we rather think that the president’s new unfavorable stance towards Israel was likely fueled by a fear that an alienated Arab world would come to thwart his ability to proceed, full bore, to follow through on his America First agenda in the Middle East – think, expansion of the Abraham Accords – and not any animus towards Israel or its prime minister, per se, as some are suggesting.

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Amidst all the noise and emotion, a different kind of return unfolded – quieter, more subdued, and 43 years in the making. The body of Tzvi Feldman, a missing soldier captured during a brutal battle in Syria in 1983, was finally brought home to Israel for burial.

For far too long, we have been told that some of our parents may not continue their religious traditions as to how to educate their children. If nothing else, this would seem to run afoul of our constitutional freedom of religion rights.

In the age of rising antisemitism, when many young Jews feel fear, confusion or alienation, there are still those who choose action, belonging and sacrifice.

Out-of-control spending on steroids

The only reliable source of strength we can depend upon is ourselves and our faith in HaShem. No other people, country or government.

The Terrorist Responsible for Daniel Pearl's Monstrous Murder Has Finally Been Eliminated

Palestinians... say that if anyone is stealing the humanitarian aid and food, it is Hamas.

These three steps will not erase the black cloud of shame that hangs over Amsterdam’s political and legal authorities for their mishandling of the November 2024 attacks.