The more I understood the riotous Jewish tribe, the more I realized that a nation that can barely run the so-called "West Bank" (or, for that matter, a heated Knesset session) is unlikely to deviously pull the strings behind everything happening in the world. But never mind. Opinion.
The genius-and danger-of this model is its ability to fragment an operation among people who understand only a fraction of it. Tehran’s reported covert networks use digital recruitment, criminal intermediaries, and deniable local operatives. Opinion.
By portraying Israel and the West as preternaturally blameworthy, leftists advance the cause of Islamism. Opinion.
Israel did not grow strong because it had an American alliance. It acquired an American alliance because it had grown strong. Opinion.
Two global stars, millions of followers and the same question: when Jews identify antisemitism, why does everyone else get to tell us we’re wrong? Opinion.
UK's campaign against the Israeli “settlers" amounts to racist ethnic cleansing and Burnham's threatened boycott would affect all Israeli products. Israel might now suggest politely that since the UK apparently hates the Jewish state so much, it surely won’t want to benefit any further from Israeli intelligence or arms. Opinion. supplies.Opinion.
For a hundred and one reasons, most haredim will not join a non-hareidi institution and, therefore, they will not join the IDF as it is today. Opinion.
Humility, coupled with a dose of reality, can temper the fantasies of even the most quixotic politicians and forge true leaders. It is not too late for some or all of these mushrooming right wing parties to amalgamate and save us from a left wing government. Opinion.
A century of regional confrontation-and the old Ottoman Map that refuses to die.
It begins with one sentence: “Israel and Hamas violated the agreement." How dare they? Opinion.
Half of the faculty audited at Israel's most prestigious research universities put their name to a document accusing the IDF of war crimes and crimes against humanity, during a war that responded to the deadliest single massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Government must do more to meet the urgency of the times we live in. Opinion.
The decisive question is why one society’s political, religious and media institutions repeatedly provide a ready-made target, a heroic script and communal validation for those who commit terror. Op-ed.
Dear "horrified" Europeans, what would you have done if October 7 had happened to your country, your community, your wife, your daughters, your children or your grandchildren? Op-ed.
The dilemma facing Washington and Jerusalem: A nuclear-capable Iran that still funds proxies from Lebanon to Yemen is not a foreign-policy result. It is a failure. What can the US do? Opinion.
Why are they fighting Israel? Opinion.
People remember those who helped them. But they usually become even more deeply attached to those who appreciated them enough to accept their help. Opinion.
If only the nameless bodies buried in the red earth of the Nigerian Plateau, the children burned in the churches of Congo, the women kidnapped and disfigured in the Sahel, carried another name, another flag, another cause - we would know about them. Opinion.
Israel must impose its own cost on Europe’s E1 obsession as Europe threatens Israel with sanctions in response to Israel’s plans to finally begin construction there. Opinion.
What happens when the custodian of memory alters it? Archaeology does not change its nature according to who operates the excavator.
Mark Ruffalo once admitted the “Genocide" libel fuels antisemitism. Now he’s doing it again? Opinion.
After Oct 7 the government of South Africa lost no time dragging Israel to The Hague for genocide in Gaza. It also got bosom buddy Hamas which had dragged slain IDF Capt Daniel Perez to Gaza, to return his mortal remains to the mother and father, who happens to be President of the World Zionist Organisation.
Review of an excellent book that could only have been written by a free man in a free country and not in the Islamic Middle East. Opinion.
Peace negotiations? What peace? Been there, done that. Opinion.
Why waste years learning Arabic and Hebrew, studying history and visiting the region when seven minutes of theory can give you everything you need to explain the Middle East to Israelis? Op-ed.
Apparently Jews being somewhere they are not wanted is a recurring problem. Op-ed.
Peace becomes impossible when a public culture rewards the sacrifice of children more than the protection of their future. Opinion.
No regime change has taken place in Tehran. America’s longtime enemies and veterans of the Islamic Republic’s machinery of violence are back at the commanding heights of power-and Iran is entering a new age of hard-line rule. Opinion.
We are. Dark forces infiltrate every breach in the USA, widening them through chaos, migration and party infiltration until power concentrates in the hands of a few and there is no way back to the gardens that grew its distinct beauty. Opinion.
The Religious Zionist educational system in Israel prioritizes responsibility over self-interest, connects learning to lived action and insists that Torah is not just something to study, but something to live. Opinion.
The Vice President’s words and actions--the hard evidence--are what makes him a dangerous choice for President of the United States. Opinion.
The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America and its alliance with Radical Islam. Opinion.
What is chutzpah? A Jew pouring a foundation in his ancestral homeland who gets a summons, a sanctions package, a joint communiqué with six other governments and a threat to label his tomatoes. Opinion.
Is this a bad or a good thing? And who is behind the initiative? Some are against the idea of flying in to vote and leaving again, some are afraid there is only one type of voter being helped to fly in to vote.
Turkey under Erdogan is not a democratic bridge between East and West, nor is it a reliable pillar of transatlantic security; it is an expansionist, authoritarian power fundamentally hostile to democratic governance, Western values, and the existence of Israel in the Middle East. Another wake up call. Opinion.
Developments suggest that Turkey is gradually acquiring the ability to project naval power across two strategically important maritime theaters: the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Israel must plan its next steps. Opinion.
The war of conquest against the West involves both Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. Opinion.
The city that saw the towers fall under the weight of planes piloted by men who invoked Allah has elected a mayor who bows to the same cultural tradition that speaks the language of those who, in other latitudes, consider the West an enemy. Opinion.
A person should be able to declare, without embarrassment or apology: I am hareidi. I work. I serve. I support my family. I care about my country. And I still belong in my community. A new hareidi political movement is promoting just that.
Gaza is hot now. That means everyone wants to be the new Gaza, which, if the real Gaza is anything to go by, means fat people in fake blue press vests doing TikTok videos claiming that they’re about to starve unless Israel or America surrender to them. Opinion.
How a popular children’s TV personality, with a huge following, deliberately manipulates innocent, young minds against Israel. It must stop. Op-ed.
It is worth recalling reports of Turkish plans to deploy air defense systems in Syria, such as the Hisar system. Opinion.
If a white supremacist accused Jews of bribing members of Congress, no synagogue would invite him as a speaker. New York's oldest Reform Jewish congregation is hosting a newspaper columnist who has made that exact same accusation. Opinion.
A Jewish newspaper based in Jerusalem propped up inflated charges of settler violence charges as unquestionably true, handing our declared enemies the one asset they cannot manufacture for themselves. Why does it continue to print the blood libel it has already debunked?
In the non-democratic Middle East, Islamic/Arab regimes do not ascend to power through the ballot. They tend to be tenuous, as are their policies and agreements, which are not anchored in democratic and legal structures, but in foundational Islamic precepts and precedents. An historical review.
The American guarantee Israel has leaned on for two generations has been publicly reranked below the price of gasoline by the man who may inherit the White House. Opinion.
And also some information: The Jewish people are not foreign tourists or colonizers in Judea. We did not name ourselves after this land. This land was named after us.
He rescued tens of thousands of Jews, redeemed Sweden’s compromised wartime reputation, and became one of history’s greatest humanitarians. Then Stockholm abandoned its own diplomat to Stalin’s prisons-and left his desperate mother to fight largely alone. Op-ed.
Suggestions for summer reading that are relevant and even hopefully impactful. Op-ed.
Not a few judicial decisions have harmed deterrence against the enemy and the IDF’s ability to defend Israel and defeat the enemy. What is the halakhic status of the state court system?
Europe continues to talk of “sovereignty" while it has progressively replaced the government of peoples with the administration of flows of migrants. Opinion.
When the headlines expressed shock that Saudi Arabia chose Ankara and Islamabad over Jerusalem, the honest response should have been: what did you expect? Opinion.
Forty-four percent of American Jews view Mamdani favorably. That did not happen organically. It is due to the work of a progressive Jewish infrastructure funded by Diaspora liberal Jews. Op-ed.
Who gave one unelected official, Gali Baharav-Miara, this much power? Opinion.
UN Rapporteur Albanese said the death toll in Gaza was 680,000 (it’s 70,000 including terrorists), including 380,000 infants under five. When told there were only 341,790 children under five in Gaza to begin with, Albanese said she lied deliberately because “it had the effect I wanted".
The Israeli High Court has a long record of flouting the law when it comes to Arab parties’ participation in Knesset elections. But in the post-October 7th era, in which the vulnerability of the state was so vividly exposed, it is essential to vigorously enforce both the spirit and the letter of Clause 7(a) of the Basic Law: The Knesset. Opinion.
Israel needs a doctrine of strategic prevention and overwhelming deterrence. We need to ensure that no potential coalition can ever become sufficiently confident in its ability to overwhelm Israel that it concludes an attack is worth the risk.
Iran won’t come to the table and Hamas won’t disarm. But as luck would have it Iran, unsuspecting and all, can help Trump gain pole position. Opinion.
Another antisemitic attack on American Jews at prayer. This one happened inside the most politically connected Reform synagogue in the country, a place where Israel has been condemned.
