Opeds (Page 2)


Mandanitis:

The city that never sleeps has gone into a stupor

There was always an implicit understanding that New York worked according to its own user’s manual, its own rule book. Never the easiest, and not always the most sympathetic, but a place of dynamism and opportunity. Opinion.

The city that never sleeps has gone into a stupor

A New Dawn of Peace:

Kazakhstan's stand against the politics of violence

Kazakhstan has chosen prosperity, pragmatism, and partnership over the destructive, zero-sum game dictated by terror groups. Hamas's predictable and furious reaction is simply an acknowledgment that their influence is waning. Opinion.

Kazakhstan's stand against the politics of violence

Mamdani’s Victory:

A boomerang waiting to strike the Democrats

The economic and political history of the twentieth century is a graveyard of movements that promised justice through equality and delivered only scarcity through control.

A boomerang waiting to strike the Democrats

Historical antisemitism is here to stay, and in a big way

What is it about the historical, Jewish "Being" (our existential state) that brings about an almost never-ending rage of antisemitism?' Opinion.

Historical antisemitism is here to stay, and in a big way

Confronting the Generation Gap among Jews towards Israel

What is that Zionism idea all about? A primer for Jewish students.

Confronting the Generation Gap among Jews towards Israel

Giulio Meotti:

Mamdani is a tragedy for those who love Western freedoms

To understand who New York’s new mayor is, one must read a Wall Street Journal profile. Opinion.

Mamdani is a tragedy for those who love Western freedoms

The Heritage Foundation's black hole:

When fighting Antisemitism requires moral clarity

Pro-Israel groups are abandoning the Heritage Foundation because no antisemitism initiative can defend people who platform antisemites-and expect Jews to stay. Opinion.

When fighting Antisemitism requires moral clarity

Can the Abraham Accords be this century’s Magna Carta?

While the very signing of the Abraham Accords is an unprecedented step towards regional and worldwide peace, there is not one unique agreement that all parties signed onto and the glaring lacunas should be addressed.

Can the Abraham Accords be this century’s Magna Carta?

Turkey’s “Pro American” energy gambit is a geopolitical hazard

Ankara is using energy deals to expand its influence in contested waters and to entrench patronage inside a fragile, divided Libya. The hazard is real. Opinion.

Turkey’s “Pro American” energy gambit is a geopolitical hazard

The lie Is over

The Prescott Report proves what we’ve always known - and I’m done hiding from your myths. Opinion.

The lie Is over

The Islamist capture of New York

America must wake up. This is about more than one upstart revolutionary. Opinion.

The Islamist capture of New York

Jack Engelhard:

Mamdani plays NYC like a fiddle

Bob Dylan sang "the times they are a-changing", but he did not know how right he was. You did it to yourselves, New Yorkers. Opinion.

Mamdani plays NYC like a fiddle

The Mamdani Effect

The two inexorable rules of Jewish history are that every exile comes to an end, and that Jews are always too late to realize that. And now, the Jewish moment in America is over. Opinion.

The Mamdani Effect

About Mamdani:

He is a radical Socialist but he is also an antisemitic Islamist

Say hello to the new Radical Socialist Islamist New York Mayor. Opinion.

He is a radical Socialist but he is also an antisemitic Islamist

NYC Mayoral Elections:

The Postmortem

As New Yorkers, we have to take the theoretical lessons from this election and practically apply them for our own protection. That means using all means possible - legal, organizational, financial, political, educational - to hold the mayor “accountable” to all his constituents. Opinion.

The Postmortem

Book Review:

A world of yesteryear with values we need today

A book on the life of Hermann Schwab portrays a man of many talents who was a model of the kind of upright men of principles we need in public positions today. It is also the history of a bygone era. Review.

A world of yesteryear with values we need today

Tucker Carlson’s moral depravity:

The Right’s duty is to reject his platforming of hate

Every time someone like Tucker Carlson dignifies the likes of Nick Fuentes, they gift the left a propaganda victory, alienate Jewish voters, disgust mainstream conservatives, and fracture the moral core of the Republican coalition. Opinion.

The Right’s duty is to reject his platforming of hate

Giulio Meotti:

Mamdani is the future of an Islamized West

They’re not here to reform. They’re here to replace. And in the end, what matters is demography. Opinion.

Mamdani is the future of an Islamized West

Spain’s Gaza decree is a strategic mistake

Forget Sanchez. Morocco Is the partner Israel and the U.S. can actually rely on. Opinion.

Spain’s Gaza decree is a strategic mistake

The legal scandal roiling Israel’s unelected oligarchy

Israel's former military advocate general, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, deceived the Supreme Court as she pretended to oversee a bogus investigation. Were others involved? Is the Deep State finally going to be exposed - or will it stay buried? Opinion.

The legal scandal roiling Israel’s unelected oligarchy

The genocide lie:

What is really happening in Gaza

Repeating a falsehood again and again may cause people to believe it, but it doesn’t make it true. Opinion.

What is really happening in Gaza

NYC Mayoral Elections:

What worries me most about Mamdani

The New York City mayoral candidate and his followers treat hostility to Israel as a badge of moral enlightenment. Karl Lueger did the same in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century - and we know how that turned out. Opinion.

What worries me most about Mamdani

Iran’s strategic obsession-and how to stop Its comeback

Israel and its allies can ensure that Iran’s ambitions remain just that: ambitions. Opinion.

Iran’s strategic obsession-and how to stop Its comeback

The Autonomy Precedent:

How Morocco’s model can secure Israel’s future and US interests

The same pragmatic diplomacy that secured Morocco’s Sahara should now be used to secure Israel’s heartland. Opinion.

How Morocco’s model can secure Israel’s future and US interests

Alma Research Center Special Report:

Hezbollah’s rehabilitation composite in Lebanon

Hezbollah, under the direct sponsorship and assistance of Iran, is managing a broad military and civilian rehabilitation process in Lebanon, aimed at restoring its capabilities after the severe damage it suffered during the last war. Report.

Hezbollah’s rehabilitation composite in Lebanon

The Temple Mount and Al Aksa:

The Peace Plan turns a blind eye to the real, real estate issue

Since Hamas named the Gaza war the “Al Aqsa Flood,” at some point, doesn’t Israel need to respond? Opinion.

The Peace Plan turns a blind eye to the real, real estate issue

Iran’s military capabilities restored by North Korea

North Korean cooperation (through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard) has been crucial to Iran’s reconstituting and safeguarding its ballistic and nuclear capabilities, in particular, and military infrastructure, in general.

Iran’s military capabilities restored by North Korea

Ken's Thought of the Week:

End endless wars

How can we defeat our enemies as we fight World War III, which, I claim, began on October 7, 2023? Opinion.

End endless wars

Clashing credos will determine Gaza’s future

Trump and his Real Estate moguls insist that the war is over. For Hamas that would be heresy. Opinion.

Clashing credos will determine Gaza’s future

How anti-Zionist are you?

The unholy alliance between the progressive Left and Islamist fundamentalists - and the ancient hatred that binds them. Together, they’ve built a movement whose foundations are the rubble of reason. Opinion.

How anti-Zionist are you?

A “Day After” Plan Israel can get to work on Right Now

A pro-Israel American majority can no longer be assumed given the growing appeal of raw Jew hatred in America. Here’s what Israel can do to prepare for a future President AOC and Sec'y of State Mamdani. Opinion.

A “Day After” Plan Israel can get to work on Right Now

Mamdani Unvarnished:

Watch what he said about Israel before he ran for Mayor

While participants may claim they are advocating for Palestinian Arab rights, speeches and chants at their rallies are rooted in rage against the Jewish state and the very fact of its existence. Every NYC voter is entitled to hear Mamdani at these rallies.

Watch what he said about Israel before he ran for Mayor

WZO Congress:

Unity means everyone is represented

WZO must represent all law-abiding members of the Zionist family. A Zionist Congress that boycotts Zionists is failing to promote unity at this critical time. Opinion.

Unity means everyone is represented

This is the moment for the Jewish People to choose unity

There are moments when we can no longer just speak about unity - we must rise and live it

This is the moment for the Jewish People to choose unity

Thank you, America:

I will owe my life to U.S. ICE

Now, only a short time remains before ICE decides on my OSUP release. Until then, I will spend my time in prayer and reflection, and before any official announcement, I want to express my deepest thanks to President Donald J. Trump, Secretary Kristi Noem, the Acting Director of ICE, the Dallas Field Office Director, and the AUSA who handled my case.

I will owe my life to U.S. ICE

Jack Engelhard:

Israel derangement syndrome

There are many sufferers of this disease. Wholesale you find them at the United Nations and among the mullahs of Iran, whose entire business appears to be Israel. Individually, there’s the man all set and ready to go as mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, who is running on a platform of hatred against Israel. Opinion.

Israel derangement syndrome

The Big Apple's mayoral election:

The Zohran Mamdani apple didn’t fall far from the family tree

The Free Press: "Clearly, the [NYC] population is primed for a villain, and the world’s oldest scapegoats are just wandering around New York for the taking." Will those naive scapegoats realize who Mamdani is in time and not vote for an antisemitic villain? Opinion.

The Zohran Mamdani apple didn’t fall far from the family tree

The numbers game:

Why the death total in Gaza is an irrelevance

A running death tally is not a moral compass, although Hamas has succeeded in making the world think so. No one kept track of much larger war deaths in Suday, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, and no one called them genocide, so why in Gaza? Opinion.

Why the death total in Gaza is an irrelevance

Giulio Meotti:

Fled Isis to live, murdered in Europe for believing

The death of this man-who crossed the desert of persecution to reach the promise of a European homeland-becomes a symbol of the crisis of the West. Opinion.

Fled Isis to live, murdered in Europe for believing

After Trump's "peace", Israel's intellectual imperative

More than anything else, Israel’s survival will require intellectual supremacy. Opinion.

After Trump's "peace", Israel's intellectual imperative

The haredi rally:

The Draft Debate masks a deeper divide

Behind yesterday's haredi protests lies a choice that will define our future: will we remain anchored in Galut, or rise to the challenge of Geula with unity and responsibility?

The Draft Debate masks a deeper divide

NYC Mayoral Elections:

The city is on the line

I’m scared. I’m scared for this city. And for the rest of America. Curtis Sliwa must step down, not because he is undeserving, but because he really cares about America. Opinion.

The city is on the line

Rabbi Steven Pruzansky:

Sovereignty, when?

We should ask our government, many of whose leaders have been promising sovereignty over Judea and Samaria for decades - especially during election season - when is the right time? Opinion.

Sovereignty, when?

Melanie Phillips:

New York holds its breath

Appallingly, progressive Jews are supporting an unhinged Jew-hater because they define this stance as conscience. Opinion.

New York holds its breath

Brit Milah Under The Knife

Despite alarming headlines, Brit Milah complications remain extremely rare - and bureaucratic oversight won't fix what's not broken. Op-Ed.

Brit Milah Under The Knife

The Investigative Project On Terrorism:

Yes - Take Mamdani at his word

Mamdani should be the Mayor of Gaza City, not New York. He screams "Islamophobia" before anyone can muster the courage to call out his antisemitic hate and seditious anti-Americanism. Opinion.

Yes - Take Mamdani at his word

The West's Battered Woman Syndrome

This is a new quasi-religion, quasi-syndrome that demands voluntary human sacrifices in the name of ‘universal progress and justice’. Don't fall for it. Beware.

The West's Battered Woman Syndrome

A historian’s challenge:

Writing the book “Tehran’s Dictator”

Beyond the watchful eyes of Marxist-Islamists working in the regime’s censorship and propaganda apparatus, I have published this book in America to expose the profile of the criminal dictator Ali Khamenei.

Writing the book “Tehran’s Dictator”

The World Zionist Congress:

When a billion-dollar opportunity turns into a disappointment

For the first time in modern history, religious and traditional delegates form the clear majority in the WJC. Instead of embracing the situation, the progresssive agenda was totally out of touch. We must work to retore integrity to this institution. Opinion.

When a billion-dollar opportunity turns into a disappointment

Mark Carney's HEY JEW

Ignorance can be forgiven. Willful gutless idiocy cannot. Let's face it. The sad reality is that our current Western leaders are pathetic despicable opportunists. Opinion.

Mark Carney's HEY JEW

NYC Mayoral Elections:

Hey, Chuck Schumer, where are you hiding?

The self-titled ‘guardian of Israel’ has gone missing and while Zohran Mamdani spews poison and rallies activists, Chuck Schumer is nowhere to be found. No statement. No pushback. Not even a polite rebuke. Opinion

Hey, Chuck Schumer, where are you hiding?

Mamdani and the bigotry of low expectations

There can be little doubt that Zohran Mamdani poses a threat to the safety of New York City residents who are not Muslim. His views and those of his supporters are a far cry from the expectations of Western morality. Opinion.

Mamdani and the bigotry of low expectations

From the Hebrew press:

Time for a pardon

Even if we are not absolutely sure of Amiram Ben Uliel's innocence, the reasons given for the guilty verdict against him are even weaker. Now that we have freed terrorist mass murderers, it is time to correct the terrible miscarriage of justice in his case. Opinion.

Time for a pardon

Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich:

Who were the Cantonists?

A scholarly new book on a fascinating yet little known subject in the chronicles of Jewish History tells the story of the young Russian Jewish boys forcibly drafted into the Tsar's army for up to 25 years.

Who were the Cantonists?

The crashing failure of the radicalized feminist movement

Want to destroy America? Destroy its family unit. Opinion.

The crashing failure of the radicalized feminist movement

Trump’s Gamble in Gaza:

Betting on a dream that reality will break

Trump is not dreaming in the literal sense. He is betting. The difference is subtle but important. A dream is detached from reality; a bet at least acknowledges the odds. But this bet is so long that one could easily mistake it for a fantasy. Opinion.

Betting on a dream that reality will break




























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