I honestly don't know what combination of technologies and alliances can meet the timeline which takes Iran, after this deal is signed, to possess such a massive number of long range ballistic missiles and launchers that we can no longer defend ourselves. Op-ed.
What if the repeated delays in the negotiations were never primarily about the negotiations? What if they were about time?
The first duty of any government is to ensure security for its citizens and borders. This is never questioned anywhere except when it involves Israel. Op-ed.
America has a pattern. And allies are paying attention. A deal with Iran that weakens Israel’s position may appear to be a tactical convenience, but it is a strategic debt that the West will pay. Op-ed.
The EU, comprised of many countries that have tolerated and even encouraged antisemitism on their city streets, has become Israel’s largest overall trading partner. There is no new hypocrisy under the sun. Op-ed.
There does seem to be one region of increasingly strategic importance where Trump policy initiatives seemed to have resonated and could yield far-reaching results. Op-ed.
I do not believe the story is over. Quite the opposite. Trump may have simply decided to postpone collection day. Opinion.
"We stand with Israel because her cause is our cause, her values are our values, and her fight is our fight."
Trump negotiates for the safety of the West, the mullahs play for Islamic intolerance. And the media continues to torment him. Opinion.
The West imagines that painful compromise is a sign of a mature civilization. The rejectionist imagination sees compromise as shameful surrender. Opinion.
Accountability constricts western actions, but is completely absent in Iran. Like other theocratic adversaries, it has become adept at exploiting Western accountability by appealing to westerners who are opposed to their leaders while it mows down opposition at home. Opinion.
A Muslim blogger exposes the hypocrisy of Hamas in the Gaza Strip in a series of tweets.
From 'All Eyes on Rafah' to riots on British streets, amplification has become a substitute for understanding. Opinion.
A society reaches danger not merely when enemies gather outside its walls, but when its own tribes cease seeing one another as indispensable parts of a shared destiny.
How Greece thwarted a Hamas terrorist cell bent on Israeli targets. Opinion.
The Iranian regime remains a threat not because it’s strong, but because America is weak. Opinion.
What the critics who warn against "escalation" consistently fail to account for is that the alternative they are defending is not peace. It is a repeat performance.
Permission to remain is granted by bureaucrats who have never walked at night on Kinnaird Avenue, nor in Molenbeek, nor in Rinkeby, nor in Saint-Denis. Opinion.
Israelis know Rabbi Shmuley not because he is famous. They know him because he has spent decades standing up for them. Op-ed.
Northeast Syria, known as “Rojava", is populated by Kurds and other ethnic and religious minorities including Chaldean Christians. The upheaval they suffered in the recent period as the West abandoned them should make us pause - and cause Israel to beware. Op-ed.
Europeans refuse to confront what is happening within their own societies and remain fixated on Israel. Opinion.
The test for 2028 will not be who says “I stand with Israel" the loudest. Everyone knows how to say that at a fundraiser. Opinion.
Talks must be formally suspended until Iran demonstrates, through action and not rhetoric, a willingness to operate in good faith. Opinion.
Point number 7 in SJP's 7-point plan is unequivocal in its goal "to unseat our Boards of Trustees as the dictators of our universities." Opinion.
What's next? Your guess is as good as mine and every pundit's. For one morning, a helicopter tipped the scales. And I am watching developments from the front row.
The Abraham Accords proved that Israel can rewrite regional architecture from strength. Saudi normalization, if it comes, would be the architecture's keystone. Opinion.
As the West surrenders its freedoms to Islam, Israel must develop new military alliances with India, Japan, S. Korea, Singapore and others. Asian countries, besides missiles and planes, also share more of our Jewish values than does the disintegrating west.
If Washington decides to avoid a larger war, the deeper crisis shaping the Middle East will remain unresolved - for now.
Critics may occasionally misinterpret restraint as weakness. In reality, Israel's current posture reflects immense strength.Opinion.
The Kaplanist, haredi and legal mobs irritate, aggravate, and infuriate as many innocent people as possible, not to convince them of the rightness of their views but simply to compel acquiescence to their demands. Opinion.
New York’s antisemitism crisis must not be ignored. Opinion.
The Democrats keep picking the wrong side, and then they wonder why so many of their men turn soft and feminine. Opinion.
It’s no more difficult or time-consuming to convert the 200 bombs’ worth of plutonium at Bushehr than to convert the estimated 11 bombs’ worth of uranium hexafluoride at Isfahan into nuclear weapons. Opinion.
The world is betting on Israel's future. The challenge now is ensuring that the workers, exporters, tourism businesses, young families, and future olim who built that success are not burdened by it. Opinion.
By the hour or by the news cycle. From a candidate’s SS death’s-head tattoo to a war they have arbitrarily decided is unconstitutional, the Democrats keep proving that their much-trumpeted principles are fine-tuned instruments, not broad convictions. Opinion.
What is our American President doing? Or failing to do? How can he fail to understand that he has finally met the Deal that he cannot make? Opinion.
My journey to New York exposed me to a deeply unsettling reality in what has long been considered the capital of Diaspora Jewry.
Faith drives this story forward. Not the political calculation. Not the military strategy. Not only the courage of soldiers. All of that matters. But underneath it, holding it all up, is the one who moves without fear of the what, because her trust in the Who is complete.
Context is essential: Israel strikes back. Its actions arise from survival imperatives after years of rockets, tunnels, and massacres, not from unprovoked aggression. Opinion.
Israelis may be going into shelters when the siren wails, but they know who the enemy is and that their country protects them. European Jews are abandoning multiculturalism - which doesn't include them - and coming home. Opinion.
Iran's message to Washington was unambiguous: we can hurt you, but we are choosing not to, and that choice should be compensated with concessions at the negotiating table, and with Trump telling Israel to ignore rockets from Lebanon and missiles from Iran. Opinion.
How can a little boy in the Ashkenazi community have the same name as his father?
'Never Again' isn’t just about gas chambers. it’s a way of thinking. Opinon.
You see, if you cannot tame the enemy - tame your friend instead. Even if it means insulting Israel by boasting that “I had a really good talk with Hezbollah this week," spoken only hours before Hezbollah missiles were launched again. And soldiers are being killed. Op-ed.
It is up to us, men and women of good courage, to pick up the fight for Israel, and America as well. Opinion.
Opponents of President Trump’s decision to attack Iran appear to advocate for the same failed Obama-Biden approach toward a hostile country that wants to destroy America - and would hesitate to do it. Opinion.
For the Iranian regime, the purpose of negotiations is to force America to surrender. Opinion.
The doctrine established by then Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin was that any regime in the region that is hostile towards Israel would be prevented from acquiring weapons of mass destruction or nuclear weapons.
They stormed the beaches and saved the world. The roughly 160,000 Allied troops who landed in Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, not only successfully executed the largest air, land and sea invasion in history, they did so amid daunting obstacles, terrible bloodshed and stakes that couldn’t have been higher.
To oppose the existence of the Jewish state while claiming not to oppose Jews is like claiming to love someone while advocating the destruction of their home, identity, and collective future. And the term “Zionist" enables that deception because it sounds ideological rather than human. Opinion.
Control of the Beaufort area is a military achievement with operational significane for Israel and psychological significance for Israelis. Opinion.
The Western Wall does not need recognition from Senator Van Hollen. But American policy does need moral clarity. Opinion.
By delivering a ceasefire on paper while Hezbollah's actual behavior guarantees its collapse, Israel and Washington have handed Tehran a paper concession that costs nothing real. Opinion.
Hitler encouraged the Mufti’s wishful thinking that assisting Germany would lead to Arab sovereignty. In reality, the Nazis intended to use him, yet the Mufti was not merely being used.
Iran's generals were watching. They are already acting accordingly. Four Republicans broke with their own president in wartime to side with a Democratic-led measure that Tehran's state media will now replay on a loop. Opinion.
An important review of U.N. Watch’s new report on an issue that is an absolute scandal - like so much else at the corrupt and irrelevant organization that was meant to serve as a beacon of hope.
If Israel wishes to upend its criteria for daycare subsidy eligibility, it must rethink the whys and hows - and do it fairly, to avoid hypocrisy and double standards. Opinion.
Freedom of expression has become an offense for which it is not worth risking assassination. Opinion.
The dismissal of Yitzhar’s security coordinator is the Conceptzia in miniature: a warped system that punishes the men who make the enemy hesitate and bankrolls the enemy who does not. Opinion.
