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It is entirely possible for two parties to hate each other, but to agree they hate you more.

The Washington Post is suggesting that greater military success for terrorism will lead to Middle East peace.

America is a great country, but we can be an even greater country if we just banned everything... for the children.

The Israeli Left is incentivizing the Palestinians to refuse negotiations and potentially use violence against Israel.

The national census for England and Wales has come out, and, as usual, this once-a-decade event has had all of its most significant points overlooked.

Chuck Hagel writes his own narrative, in which threats aren’t really threats and policies that actually work are just horrible.

Christians and Jews would be enjoying freedom, peace and safety in a truly Muslim State.

The American political and social divides are trickling down to our schools and placing horrific pressure on our kids.

Fayyad wants Palestinians to boycott Israel, but at the same time is unable to provide them with better alternatives.

Challenging God in the face of suffering is not blasphemous.

In 1948 we stood by the Jewish people but now, for the sake of oil and meat sales, things have changed.

In 1999, Benjamin Netanyahu, in his first go-round as prime minister, lost his reelection bid to Ehud Barak, much to the delight of Israel's conscripted media and of many in its judicial system.

In the arid, forsaken and violent area that we live in, if you beg for peace you get a kick in the behind and thrown out of the arena.

Terrorism is always a crime under international law.

Last week, I detailed parts of my campaign platform for the January 22 Israeli Knesset elections. Here are more proposals:

Abbas and Hamas have decided for now to lay their differences aside and work towards escalating tensions on the ground, particularly in Judea and Samaria.

With the international community barely having finished expressing its outrage over Israel's decision to build in E-1, between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim (reported at length in last week's column), two other similar decisions have been made that are sure to re-ignite the flames.

Israel this week took an important step toward strengthening Jerusalem and preventing any chance of its future division. Despite increasingly strident objections from the U.S., Europe and the Palestinians, the Jewish state is moving forward with plans to expand the capital’s Jewish population.

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The 26 murders at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut last Friday have triggered yet another nationwide debate over how something so horrific could happen in the United States.

The Washington buzz earlier this week was that President Obama had decided on Sen. John Kerry to replace Hillary Clinton as secretary of state and was close to settling on former Republican senator Chuck Hagel as his new secretary of defense.

Many Washington officials have long spun the story that convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard did immense harm to this country’s national security by stealing vital American military and intelligence secrets. Thus, the U.S. intelligence community has always opposed Mr. Pollard’s release.

Those who view American-Israel relations through a dualistic “are you pro-Israel or anti-Israel” lens must be confused. In one week, the United States stands virtually alone with Israel against the Palestinians’ upgrade of their status at the United Nations, then immediately condemns Israel’s settlement expansion.

It was the late Abba Eban who famously said that "the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." In his time that was for the most part true, and it arguably worked for Israel's benefit, particularly when Israel found itself in a tight diplomatic squeeze.

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That Israel and the U.S. share a special relationship is conventional wisdom in the 21st century. That the roots of this relationship extend to the very founding of the United States is perhaps less known. A new book, “The Elected and the Chosen: Why American Presidents Have Supported Jews and Israel – From George Washington to Barack Obama” (Gefen Publishing), attempts to highlight this relationship by describing various encounters American presidents have had with Jews and the support they extended to Israel. Its author, Denis Brian, has published 17 previous books, including “Joseph Pulitzer: A Life” and “Genius Talk: Conversations With Nobel Laureates and Other Luminaries.”

I’ve always wondered what factors determine whether one gets a z”l suffix (zichrono leverachah) or a zt”l (zecher tzaddik leverachah) after he’s passed on. I know of no objective standard, or of any official sanctioning board that makes these decisions. In my understanding, the term zt”l is exclusively reserved for luminaries who have benefited their generation with their exemplary deeds and accomplishments.

Both the Left and the shooters agree that the people you are shooting at should not have guns.

Thoughts and proposals on the ongoing nurses’ strike in Israel.

A number of radical leftist approached the chairman of the Central Election Committee...