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Sometimes, the very thing we want so badly is the same thing we are completely terrified of. We have to learn to hold these two emotions inside, and embrace the journey.

While the depth of a future buffer zone remains unclear, a kilometer appears to be one realistic option for defending the border communities—a kilometer into Gaza in which Israel will have a complete picture of what is occurring overground and underground.

My ennui worsened after October 7. At the time we were learning Koheles, and all I could think about over and over and over again was that indeed everything was futile, everything was hevel, everything was nothing.

Almost four months following what is arguably the State of Israel’s greatest intelligence and security failure in its history, its citizens are more divided than ever.

Rumored plan to create Palestinian state sets up fresh showdown between Biden and Republicans in Congress

The International Court of Justice in The Hague tried hard to oblige Israel to end the war and withdraw its forces from Gaza, but...

An overwhelming majority of the Israeli-Arab public opposed the Hamas attack.

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Someone with Ms. Pilip’s background is certainly welcome if only in terms of her policy positions which we share. But this is now even more urgent with the growing influence of the woke, liberal, Squad, wing of the Democratic Party in Congress.

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It is now clear that the UN heads were lying when they said they were unaware of the involvement of their employees with terror groups. In fact, they knew but did their utmost to appease Hamas.

I was very excited to see my name on the certificate attesting to the completion of the studies of Neviim and Ketuvim.

The devil's spreadsheet therefore brings the ethical terms of engagement squarely front and centre. Israel did NOT bring war on 7th October. It has Just Cause, is fighting by just means, and has clear precedent.

It has long seemed to us that the ICJ, like most agencies of the UN, view Israel with a jaundiced eye, perceiving it as a product of detested Western colonialism. But notwithstanding that bias, the obvious lack of evidence was apparently too much to overcome.

Within a day of the UNWRA revelations, the news came that Iran proxy groups have ratcheted up their attacks on Western shipping and targets in the Middle East, which began following Oct. 7, and have now resulted in the deaths of three U.S. service members and the injuring of two dozen more.

The revelation of ties between the U.N. aid agency and Hamas is a small part of the problem. The real issue is the purpose of the institution, which has always been to perpetuate the conflict.

Critics of Israel almost never cite comparable data from other military encounters. This omission creates the false impression that the civilian death tolls in Gaza are among the highest in history, when they are in fact among the lowest.

To make matters worse for many Jews’ psyches, not only has the institution they most revere turned out to be a moral wasteland and the most congenial place for enemies of the Jewish people – and of the United States (but that is another story) – at the same time, the people whom many Jews have most feared, conservative Christians, have turned out to be the Jews’ most loyal friends.

“The rate of progress of the IDF, above and below the ground, is historically fast."

Along with imposing migration, European politicians have taken other measures to help establish and empower Islam in Europe, to the detriment of the natives.

Friedman's soft jihad against Israel is more subtle and acceptable, making it dangerous precisely because it is entertained by rational people and policymakers, especially Democrats.

The United Nations is the most egregious proliferator of the idea that Israel is a settler-colonial state that occupies the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.

So why does the media describe it as “among the deadliest… in history”?

Israel must immediately end its acceptance of the ICJ's jurisdiction with respect to the Genocide Convention.

How can Palestinian leaders, who are terrified of Hamas and even more terrified of their own people, be expected to prevent the terrorists from attacking Israel in the event that these leaders were handed a state?

A formerly cooperative relationship now fraught with disagreement

Since our aliyah, my husband, who was a pulpit rabbi in America, gets constant calls from rabbis and principals in America who are considering aliyah. Many have since arrived. Some are still figuring out how to make it work. But it seems there is scarcely a Jewish leader in America who doesn’t have aliyah in the back of his or her mind.

"Any aid to Hamas must be conditioned with disarming its forces and returning all hostages"

The distinction between Hamas and “ordinary” Palestinians is largely spurious.

He taught by example, not by preaching. Though we have differences in our religious and political outlooks, he always treated my 'heresy' with respect and humor...