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While the world honors the Holocaust, outrage over calls for the murder of Jews at the University of Michigan is mocked as evidence that Jews are “snowflakes.”

The following Keynote Address was delivered by Professor Beres to the Intelligence Summit in St. Petersburg on March 5, 2007. It is published here for the very first time in its original form. These formal remarks presented by our own Strategic and Military Affairs analyst to very senior members of the military and intelligence communities (U.S., Israeli and certain others) remain starkly relevant and timely.

Eventually there will be worldwide Greece-style bank closures; Israel will be less hurt -it's not EU

Palestinian leaders have legitimized Israel to the point where it has become a "crime" for any Palestinian to be seen talking to, much less negotiating with any Israeli.

The most obvious example of America in decline is the perverse American doctrines surrounding transgender issues

Yishai is joined by Hillel Ma'or, an instructor at the Caliber 3 range outside of Efrat to discuss his journey to Judaism and also Israel.

Perhaps our President should focus less on construction of apartments and homes and do something instead about the bombs and rockets that are killings tens of thousands of innocent Arabs.

When wars are run by politicians, the end result is a defeat that comes from never really trying.

Has a president who is, at best, a part-time leader or at worst, no longer capable of facing the enormous challenges of the presidency, played a role in exacerbating these problems?

Only a selective end to its nuclear ambiguity would allow Israel to exploit the potentially considerable benefits of a Samson Option. Should Israel choose to keep its Bomb in the "basement," therefore, it could not make any use of the Samson Option.

The most oppressed woman in America runs for president.

From calling for the destruction of Israel to the National Security Council.

The perception of Liberman as an abrasive hardliner is due more to his blunt statements regarding the loyalty of Israeli-Arabs rather than any territorial intransigence regarding the Palestinians

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Arabs claim Silwan as a historically Palestinian Arab neighborhood, yet it was practically empty when the first Yemenite Jews arrived in the 1880s; the Turks and British themselves recognized it as a Jewish neighborhood.

Have you noticed that some problems just won't go away?

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Once upon a time in America, every adult could recite at least some Spenglerian theory of decline.

The Palestinian population is not some hapless victim of the terror groups but the very crucible from which they emerged

Since I started writing this column I have been inundated with questions from my readers about various shtetlach. Often the places mentioned are well-known cities and, possibly, places I have visited.

2023: Win or lose, it is in our hands

As U.S. credibility and stature diminish, the president and his secretaries of state and defense engage in eloquent denial.

Revolutionary fervor still sweeping the Middle East is plainly ongoing and perilously "contagious." Above all, perhaps, these eruptions confirm that the so-called "Palestinian Problem" has never been more than a manipulated contrivance of corrupt Arab monarchies and dictatorships, and that Israel has had absolutely nothing to do with the region's core problems. Indeed, to the contrary, this fervor reveals that if the Arabs had simply embraced rather than demonized Israel from the start - a fully rational and deserved embrace that would have been enthusiastically welcomed by all Israelis - the Arab states would have benefited politically, intellectually, medically, scientifically and materially.

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The government middle class is the most hopeless middle class in all of history. It aspires to nothing and it dreams of nothing.

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The symbolism of the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral, the most renowned building in Western civilization, is hard to miss. It is as if G-d Himself wanted to warn us in the most unmistakable way that Western Christianity is burning – and with it, Western civilization.

The time has come for the “Right” to “bite the bullet” & give up trying to advance convoluted political prescriptions in lieu of the two-state formula. It is time to identify the Palestinian-Arabs as the enemy

The only real power standing in the way of Palestinian terrorism and Iranian hegemonism is Israel.