Opeds (Page 11)

A Singular Sovereignty:

Israel in the context of the 22 Arab States

Israel’s critics treat Israel, the restored nation-state of an ancient people, as illegitimate, while accepting without hesitation the legitimacy of states whose borders were drafted by imperial powers only a century ago. Opinion.

Trump and Iran: Will they ever agree on anything?

President Trump and the Iranian regime may have very different goals, yet both appear more comfortable with the status quo than with the compromises necessary to close a deal. Opinion.

Nice North you have there. It’d be a shame if you lost it.

Extortion as a diplomatic strategy. Opinion.

Rescuing Hezbollah:

Inside France's panic over Israel's deepening incursion

France's panic tells us less about humanitarian principle than about the enduring European compulsion to rescue failing actors from the consequences of their own aggression, particularly when Israel is the one delivering them.

The "quiet for quiet" farce:

President Trump, in the Middle East there are no real ceasefires

Mr, Netanyahu, for all our sakes, do the right thing and drop this "quiet for quiet" farce.

Running for Congress:

The defense witness who lied

An investigation into Adam Hamawy's 1995 testimony for the Blind Sheikh. Exposé.

A Crisis of Gratitude:

What our haredi brothers forgot about Israel and Judaism

If Moses owed gratitude to sand, what do Jews owe to soldiers who literally die protecting Jewish lives?

Israel’s “deep state:"

The pursuit of the unattainable

Israel’s “deep state" led by unelected bureaucrats, legal advisors, and judges has thwarted the will of the people by preventing Israel’s elected government from passing laws and ensuring policies that reflect the voters' wishes. Opinion

Alma Research Center:

The Dahieh

What is meant by the term “Dahieh"? Which area does it refer to? Report.

Israel just crossed a Red Line in Lebanon nobody noticed

Hezbollah's capacity to threaten northern Israel from southern Lebanon depends entirely on its ability to control and transit terrain up to the Zahrani River and ending that is the IDF objective. Opinion.

The real mistake:

It's not Mamdani skipping the parade. It’s us begging him to come

When we want to hold this mayor accountable, let us hold him accountable for what he does in office, not for declining an invitation he should never have received. Who needed him there? Opinion.

Mamdani wasn't there - were you?

Mamdani did what 95% of Jews did. Opinion.

A welcome effort to douse modern-day blood libels

Israeli ambassador Yechiel Leiter’s new booklet takes aim at grotesque falsehoods about Israel-it may not change antisemites, who do not want to be confused by the facts, but it is crucial for “singing to the choir." Opinion.

Iran, Europe, the U.S. and Israel:

The danger, the indignity, the doubt and the solution

In every conflict of this magnitude, there is one variable that decides the outcome before weapons, diplomacy, or economics: determination. Op-ed.

Into the fray:

Helvetian hypocrisy on Iran

For decades, Swiss banks have served as a repository for funds linked to "rogue regimes", dictators, and corrupt officials. A glimpse behind the “chocolate-box" image. Opinion.

They don't care about Gaza

While Gaza has fractured the party’s elite and the small core of its most passionate activists, most Americans don’t count it among their priorities. Opinion

Who should speak for Israel? The case for Caroline Glick

Pearl-clutching about the veteran journalist possibly being sent to the New York consulate misses the point. The Jewish state needs bold advocates more than traditional diplomats.

Why is President Trump ignoring democratic Somaliland?

President Trump: Don’t make a new truly democratic black African Muslim nation have to grovel to earn America’s attention. Opinion.

The Litani is no longer the frontier

Why Israel's security now starts at the Strait of Hormuz. Opinion.

No Shabbat Shaloms

Only a plea to be braver than the people in this column.

Hate is a religion

Jew-hatred is a matter of faith for progressive atheists who employ ancient mystical or religious imagery - often superimposed over the myth of "Palestine" - to justify smug sanctimony when villainizing Jews. Opinion.

Iranian society no longer fears war

Years of repression, executions, corruption, poverty, lies, and humiliation have pushed Iranian society to a breaking point. Many young Iranians no longer believe the Islamic Republic can be reformed from within. Opinion.

Internet Jihad

The hatred of Jews fills up and dominates the social media. Opinion.

Academia's Iran lobby

More and more pro-Islamic Republic academics have emerged in the past few years, so many in fact that calling them "Academia's Iran Lobby" is not even slightly hyperbolic. Opinion.

Melanie Phillips:

War against Israel targets the British Museum

Historical truths backed up by ancient artifacts are now pitted against a lethal echo chamber. Opinion.

The Satmar Rebbe and Zionism

Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum zt"l and the Jewish argument over Redemption.

When the checks don’t clear

The Gaza pledges were always theater. The Gaza Agreement the same. Opinion.

A lost opportunity

The anti-Mamdani rally was a success, but it lacked a crucial message. Opinion.

A graduation, a wedding and my mother’s earrings

Older generations watch younger ones with a particular expression, a little heartbroken at how fast it all moves. They carry with them everything that the Jewish people have lost, and everything that has been built in its place. Opinion.

A Palestinian state would add Hamas terror to Fatah corruption

The Palestinian Arabs are not ready for a state. The world should stop pretending otherwise. Opinion.

Stuck in the middle

The far left and hard right thrive on the same fuel: grievance, division and permanent outrage, Opinion.

Goldfinger’s Operation Grand Slam can solve Fordow “uranium dust"

Bombing Fordow and blowing up every centrifuge,will not have “destroy" the centrifuges’ enriched uranium. It will create a unranium mine. Opinion.

The Jew-Hatred pandemic is not a mystery

In the global eruption of Jew- and Israel-hatred, the campaign manager is Iran, Qatar the banker, China and Russia campaign co-chairs, Hamas and Hezbollah the front liners, and NGOs the movers. Opinion.

The Global Sumud Flotilla:

Dismantling the Islamist maritime lawfare machine

By conventional military metrics, Israel prevailed completely. By the metrics that the flotilla's architects actually care about, the results are more complicated. Opinion.

Responding to the attack on Ambassador Leiter in the JPost

J Street pressures Israel during wartime, legitimizes narratives weaponized against Israel internationally, and helps fracture bipartisan support for the Jewish state. And Sebastien Levi responds in the JPost by scolding the ambassador who critiicized it. Opinion.

Alma Research Center:

Strategic Drones: Why Hezbollah has intensified its attacks

This is Iran’s familiar game of buying time, whose purpose is to avoid reaching a deal that would force them into a compromise they are not interested in. Opinion.

Giulio Meotti:

They call terrorists insane to deny the madness in welcoming them

Europe has convinced itself that it has a problem of collective mental health instead of confronting the reality of a totalitarian ideology it imported in massive doses. Opinion.

The Iran Gamble:

The high stakes for Trump in Iran

Trump’s Iran gamble is a doctrine of pressure, pragmatism and power - and the stakes are high. Opinion.

How to be a Zio without really trying

Most Jew haters have little idea of what Zion and Zionism are. It's time they found out. Opinion.

Iran's Empty Cradles:

Why Washington must not rescue a dying regime

The regime will not be negotiated out of existence, but America must not resuscitate it, because it can be outlasted. The empty cradles of Tehran are the most honest evidence available that outlasting it is an achievable strategy. Opinion.

Zombie Journalism at the New York Times

The Middle East has generated a rich tradition of zoological conspiracy theories about Israel. Will the Times now assign a 4,000-word investigation into Israel's alleged army of killer dolphins and spy eagle operatives? Opinion.

Campus activism's blindspots:

From Hitler to Tehran

Elite academic institutions helped normalize Nazism, although antisemitism was visible from the beginning. Today, they insist they are managing complexity, but too often, they are managing cowardice while Jewish students are intimidated. Opinion.

A cancer within Diaspora communities

Jews craving inclusion are the antisemites’ delight. Do anti-Israel Jews know they act as doormats? Normal antisemites can hardly get by without them. Opinion.

The Jew-hating pacifist

In the Jew-hater's world, Israel should remain morally pristine and allow itself to be destroyed. That will show ‘em! But no thank you. Op-ed.

Gaza, Lebanon and the Trump deal:

"Quiet for quiet" again?

Someone should tell Donald Trump that the saying that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" is a truism. Opinion.

Mockery is now worse than murder

The West reacts more passionately to an Israeli politician ridiculing activists than to entire political cultures built around hatred of Jews. Opinion.

Tehran's assassins

Why Germany's indictments demand a hardline transatlantic response. Opinion.

The batons of Barcelona and the double standard against Israel

Israel detained flotilla activists and fed them sandwiches. Spain met similar activists with clubs and riot police. Guess which country the world condemned. Opinion.

Israel should have let the Flotilla enter Gaza

After all, Greta Thunberg and the others say that everyone in Gaza is ready to welcome them as liberators. Why not put that bonhomie to the test? Opinion.

Trump between a rock and a hard place

What outcome can save his presidency? Opinion.

Deal or no deal

For some reason, the West cannot get its collective head around the fact that the Iranian regime’s mindset is not one of mutual existence.

Melanie Philliips:

A dangerous dividing line

Diaspora Jews cannot properly be defended if they do not or fail to comprehend the monstrosity of the scapegoating and demonization of Israel. Opinion.

Shavuot Brit Olam:

On the Hebrew Architecture of Generations

Standing at Sinai is not an event that happened and ended. It is ground that continues - that is transmitted from vessel to vessel to vessel. And without that transmission, the standing at Sinai does not exist. Break the chain, and Sinai disappears.

Ban New York Times reporters from Israel

After 100 years of Jew hatred, the New York Times is obsessed with destroying Israel, which is why we should not help them by allowing their reporters to work in our country. Opinion.

Anatomy of a Catastrophe:

Willful blindness, arrogance, and terror denial

Hamas did not need Israel to know nothing. Hamas needed Israel to believe the wrong thing. The lesson of October 7 is that refusing to recognize war when it is being waged against you does not produce peace. It produces surprise, paralysis, and catastrophe. Opinion.

“ The end of history" that never came to pass

In response to the efforts by Jew-haters to bring an end not to history, but to the Jewish people and their one, tiny country, Jews must be ready to fight. Opinion.