Opeds (Page 3)


The Israeli Supreme Court’s shocking disregard for the law

At the heart of a current legal conflict is not the law, but a bitter fight over whether pro- or anti-government investors will take control of Israel’s “Channel 13." Opinion.

The Israeli Supreme Court’s shocking disregard for the law

The demographic war:

Mamdani baptized the winners and buried the losers

The Islamic communist mayor of New York did not “forget" the Italians: he simply clarified who the winners are in the great demographic battle that will decide the future of all Western countries. Opinion.

Mamdani baptized the winners and buried the losers

Alma Research Center:

Northern Israel: The battle for hearts and minds

Right now, we have more question marks than answers.

Northern Israel: The battle for hearts and minds

Mr. President, is this meant as a joke?

You're threatening Iran's infrastructure unless they make another deal? After everything we've seen, is that a joke?

Mr. President, is this meant as a joke?

A Line That Must Not Be Crossed:

The cancellation of Rafael Medoff’s book on Holocaust cartoons

The perils of politicizing Holocaust memory. Opinion.

The cancellation of Rafael Medoff’s book on Holocaust cartoons

Jack Engelhard:

Lindsey Graham- this was a Mensch

We already miss him terribly. Opinion.

Lindsey Graham- this was a Mensch

Trump Derangement

To what extent was Israel stopped, and how, from absolutely winning that brutal urban and subterranean war in Gaza? And what lifetime lessons could Trump take from it? Opinion.

Trump Derangement

Lindsey Graham’s Lasting Legacy:

The Taylor Force Act puts int'l pressure on PA support for terror

Lindsey Graham was the author and sponsor of the Taylor Force Act, which bars U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as long as it continues to allot payments to convicted terrorists or their surviving family members.

The Taylor Force Act puts int'l pressure on PA support for terror

The agreement no one remembers:

That one time Israel tried to help Gaza

How the Gazans never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. And how the “open-air prison" fiction leaves out the crucial facts about an opportunity for Gaza's normalization that Israel wished to implement but that Gazans did not allow to come to fruition. Opinion.

That one time Israel tried to help Gaza

Blood Money:

Why the Jews were slaughtered

If you really want to know what a genocide really is, look at places where less than five percent of the Jewish population survived. Opinion.

Why the Jews were slaughtered

Defying the Normal Laws of History:

Jewish Independence alone ensures Jewish survival

Israel now serves both as a physical refuge and a diplomatic shield for Jews worldwide. Opinion.

Jewish Independence alone ensures Jewish survival

The price of being wrong

The question Israel's well-meaning critics never ask. Opinion.

The price of being wrong

Op-ed:

Farewell to a friend of a Free Iran

Lindsey Graham chose to stand with America's allies, with Israel in its darkest hours, with Ukraine in its struggle for sovereignty, and with many Iranians who continue to hope for a free homeland. Op-ed.

Farewell to a friend of a Free Iran

Alma Research Center:

Another test of Lebanese sovereignty

Will Lebanon’s General Security undermine the Foreign Ministry’s decision against the Iranian Ambassador? Opinion.

Another test of Lebanese sovereignty

The Levantine Fault Line:

Navigating the new Turkish-Egyptian security axis

What is currently materializing is a highly pragmatic, transactional alliance between two regimes which are setting aside deep historical grievances to challenge the strategic interests of Israel and its Western allies. Opinion.

Navigating the new Turkish-Egyptian security axis

A "Unity" Committee without Unity - or a Committee

What happened at the Jewish Agency Board of Governors - and why it matters for every Torah Jew in the Diaspora. Opinion.

A "Unity" Committee without Unity - or a Committee

Pros and cons of American bases in Israel

The United States has a fundamental interest in relocating its Middle East bases to the Jewish state. But does Israel? Opinion.

Pros and cons of American bases in Israel

The world is reverting to its original shape

For most of recorded history, the center of global gravity lay in Asia. Now the old order seems to be returning. Opinion.

The world is reverting to its original shape

Giulio Meotti:

Welcome to the Middle East, Monsieur Macron. Allahu Akbar!

Macron embodies progressivism in sunglasses, believing he can tame radical Islam with symbolic gestures and energy subcontracts. Opinion.

Welcome to the Middle East, Monsieur Macron. Allahu Akbar!

It doesn't add up:

Iran wants Trump dead - and answered his deadline with a missile

The US President is trading assassination threats with the very men he’s simultaneously asking to please reopen a shipping lane. Is this for real? Opinion.

Iran wants Trump dead - and answered his deadline with a missile

Stay out of Israeli politics, Ambassador Emanuel

Rahm Emanuel wants to lecture Israelis on their own survival. His old boss tried the same thing, and it cost him. Op-ed.

Stay out of Israeli politics, Ambassador Emanuel

Trump's strategic folly

Trump’s Erdogan praise and F-35 talk undermine Israel and defy common sense. Opinion.

Trump's strategic folly

Interview with Bruce Blakeman:

Will New York change course?

An interview on antisemitism, Israel, the Iran war and other pertinent issues with NY Republican Gubernatorial Nominee Bruce Blakeman.

Will New York change course?

The Rafah Sandbox:

The Peace Council Plan imperils Israeli security

Let's face it: The institutional psychology of international peacekeeping operations is fundamentally mismatched with the brutal demands of active counter-terrorism. Opinion.

The Peace Council Plan imperils Israeli security

Why Andy Burnham started his campaign with Israel

His first major foreign policy speech wasn't really about the Middle East. It was about the coalition he needs to win power & the moral operating system that has now reached the heart of government. Opinion.

Why Andy Burnham started his campaign with Israel

Jack Engelhard:

Soccer Madness

World cup soccer is the madness of the moment, and soccer is the least complicated of any sport. Opinion.

Soccer Madness

Constitutional crisis?

The High Court vs. the State

What is the current crisis between the Israel's government and the Supreme Court about - both on the surface, and deep down - and how to solve it. Two articles.

The High Court vs. the State

Analysis:

Why seizing Kharg Island would be a strategic mistake

What would actually be gained by occupying Kharg Island? What would the costs be? Can the operation's objective be realized without an invasion?

Why seizing Kharg Island would be a strategic mistake

Daniel Greenfield:

Hamas rioters get their own Members of Congress

Democrats welcome their first “Death to America" congresswoman. Opinion.

Hamas rioters get their own Members of Congress

Trump's overture to Ahmed al-Sharaa:

A risky bet on "reformed" Islamism

Will the Trump administration ever decide to choose a much-needed shift from a policy of wishful engagement to one of rigorous, conditional realism? Opinion.

A risky bet on "reformed" Islamism

Melanie Phillips:

The trillion-dollar campaign to conquer the West

The Islamists are playing the longest civilizational war game in the world. Opinion.

The trillion-dollar campaign to conquer the West

How does one right a wrong?

How present a more balanced 'history' of humanity?

When does one have to mention the injustices that nations or people have done and when can one concentrate on the good? Opinion.

How present a more balanced 'history' of humanity?

Terror on the brain

Investigators should be investigated as pro-Palestine law student activists across America pass the Bar Association's Character and Fitness Committee to become licensed advocates. Opinion.

Terror on the brain

The Gaza Flotilla and Iran: What has been missed

The moral bankruptcy of the flotilla radicals, including Americans who attended Khameneii's funeral in Iran, really requires deep examination. Opinion.

The Gaza Flotilla and Iran: What has been missed

What is Iran?

Speaking of Iranian Civilization

The brilliant shadow of Aryanic civilization over the millennia. Op-ed.

Speaking of Iranian Civilization

UNESCO and the theft of the Temple Mount

Part I of II. “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four.

UNESCO and the theft of the Temple Mount

The war of words

Israel cannot afford to remain passive while others define its story. Op-ed.

The war of words

American Reform leadership does not speak for the Jewish People

Reform Movement President, Rick Jacobs, speaks for radical American Ashkenazis, not the entire Jewish People. He sits on the board of the New Israel Fund and on the rabbinic cabinet of J Street, both antagonistic to the Jewish State. Opinion.

American Reform leadership does not speak for the Jewish People

Giulio Meotti:

If the Tibetans shouted “Intifada", would anyone hear them?

A Tibetan set himself on fire in front of the UN, which has dedicated 173 resolutions against Israel and 80 to the rest of the world, and no one noticed. Opinion.

If the Tibetans shouted “Intifada", would anyone hear them?

The enduring lesson of the Altalena Affair

“Sinat hinam," baseless hatred, was the cause of the destruction of the Second Temple, and remains our great vulnerability and challenge.

The enduring lesson of the Altalena Affair

Meet the world's leading expert on Israel

I met the world's leading Israel expert at an international newsroom in New York City. Here is my profile of him.

Meet the world's leading expert on Israel

Why Entebbe wouldn't be celebrated today

From celebrating the rescue of Jews to questioning whether they should have been rescued at all. Opinion.

Why Entebbe wouldn't be celebrated today

Warning!

Stop before we, G-d forbid, reach Section 19

Recent developments should sound a warning bell within the national camp. If indeed Trump’s points-based plan is advancing apace, the time remaining to shape a different reality is rapidly shrinking. Op-ed.

Stop before we, G-d forbid, reach Section 19

"Baby Killer!" Free Palestine mob atttacks me at the World Cup

After a year of being physically and verbally attacked across the globe, I was targeted again by “Free Palestine" extremists and, unlike in Florida, New Jersey police came to my aid and protection. But after a year of globally witnessed attacks against me, I must ask: when did assaulting Jews become normal? Op-ed.

"Baby Killer!"  Free Palestine mob atttacks me at the World Cup

The West and Iran:

The Secular Impasse: Why modern minds misread Divine imperatives

For the radical terrorists, the theological text is not a rationalization of geopolitical ambitions, but the primary, non-negotiable driver of them.

The Secular Impasse: Why modern minds misread Divine imperatives

US “Aid" to Israel:

Windfall, not burden, for US taxpayers

Israel provides the ultimate marketing tool and export-multiplier for the US: effective combat validation. And there is more. Report.

Windfall, not burden, for US taxpayers

Haredim in the IDF:

The difference between debate and demonization

Reasonable minds can disagree. Deeply. But there's never an excuse for hatred. Opinion.

The difference between debate and demonization

Lost in Translation: What Mohsen Mahdawi is really saying

How a man whose own Arabic-language statements place him within a wider resistance movement that includes armed factions continues to be presented primarily as an innocent victim of political persecution. Exposé.

Lost in Translation: What Mohsen Mahdawi is really saying

Have liberal American Jews become political orphans?

The Democrats originally supported slavery, segregation, and voter suppression, so going antisemitic is just a return to a new form of their darker past.

Have liberal American Jews become political orphans?

From the Hebrew press:

The Netanyahu trial: The time to convict has arrived

The judges' repeated recommendation to remove the bribery charge from the indictments filed against Netanyahu does not only necessitate his acquittal, it requires that those who invented the charges stand trial. Opinion

The Netanyahu trial: The time to convict has arrived

"Gaza the Beautiful" and its slaves

There are those who kidnap child hostages and those who free them. The hypocritical West prefers the kidnappers because it is Israel who freed their abused female prisoners. Op-ed.

"Gaza the Beautiful" and its slaves

When courts override the ballot box

By nullifying a completed Knesset election without explicit legal authority, the High Court has expanded its power at democracy's expense. Opinion.

When courts override the ballot box

55+ Digital Activism- the diamond in the rough

We must stop treating social media advocacy as a young person’s game. Opinion.

55+ Digital Activism- the diamond in the rough

Melanie Phillips:

The fateful question for Diaspora Jews

Anti-Zionism, wherever and whenever it appears, is an attack on Judaism itself. Antisemitism has been reframed as an attempt by Jews to mask their own conspiracy against the public good and to conceal the crimes of the State of Israel. Op-ed.

The fateful question for Diaspora Jews

Two nations. Two systems. Two diverging futures

America celebrates at 250, Tehran buries a dictator

Two nations. Two systems. Two diverging futures. As Americans mark 250 years of their Republic, millions of Iranians continue hope for a future in which their country can once again be governed by law, accountable institutions, and the consent of its people.

America celebrates at 250, Tehran buries a dictator

Ken’s Thought of the Week:

Happy July 4th! But the fight isn't over

We can’t stop fighting for our Independence.

Happy July 4th! But the fight isn't over




























You may like