Opeds (Page 4)


Tariffs are the chips in a new Poker Game

While the current trade war may escalate in the short term, the fundamental economic dynamics give the U.S. an advantage, especially over China. Opinion.

Tariffs are the chips in a new Poker Game

The ISA's new term - 'Graffiti Terrorism'

Avishai Moalem angered the ISA not only because he refused to carry out arrests without evidence, but also because of his priorities.

The ISA's new term - 'Graffiti Terrorism'

President Trump can walk Iran toward lasting peace

Trump’s decision to talk with Iran signals a calculated move to achieve meaningful concessions without causing unnecessary bloodshed and destruction. His effort must be based on clear-eyed goals. Opinion.

President Trump can walk Iran toward lasting peace

ANALYSIS:

Trump hopes Netanyahu is 'appreciated...he’s been a great leader’

After being with Israeli's PM at the Oval Office: The bottom line is that there is a great battle of civilizations taking place, a World Series, that includes the West.

Trump hopes Netanyahu is 'appreciated...he’s been a great leader’

Trump nails it on Gaza

Trump said to Netanyahu that he cannot understand why Israel left Gaza. I said the same in 2005, but the Left thought it was a great idea. As Trump said, how did that work out? Opinion.

Trump nails it on Gaza

Netanyahu speaks out…

With every passing day of these sham court proceedings, and as more Israelis wake up to the truth, Netanyahu is finally saying out loud what many of us have known for a long time. Opinion.

Netanyahu speaks out…

An LGBTQ Club is Incompatible with a Torah institution

While the Torah does not reject the people who believe their same-sex attraction is unchangeable, it does clearly reject their acting upon it. Opinion.

An LGBTQ Club is Incompatible with a Torah institution

Salt of the earth series:

Golani commando Elyashiv Wieder Hy"d: 'Say little and do much'

Elyashiv Hy"d was a symbol of how the love for the land of Israel and its people passes from generation to generation, and sadly, of the price that such limitless love demands. The story of a grandfather and his grandson.

Golani commando Elyashiv Wieder Hy"d: 'Say little and do much'

Review:

A search for self in Talmudic tales

The Talmud is a multi-book collection of “profound narratives” in addition to being a book of discussions of Jewish law. Review.

A search for self in Talmudic tales

For Aliyah Day:

A journey toward Freedom and Responsibility

Aliyah is the ultimate act of Zionism, and is also a big responsibility. The freedom to live as a Jew in our homeland comes with the responsibility to protect it. Op-ed.

A journey toward Freedom and Responsibility

Israel at war:

The eighth front

If this front is not taken as seriously as the others, we may win individual battles on the ground but lose the war in the long run. Opinion.

The eighth front

Eurabia: if AI is more real than journalism

If you ask Wikipedia, the great lying and manipulated encyclopedia, how many Muslims there are in France, it will answer “from 3 to 5.7 million,” but the PM says there are 9 million....Opinion.

Eurabia: if AI is more real than journalism

The ISA Jewish Division: Friend or foe?

The security establishment, the prosecution, courts, media, and academia, all unelected, use their unshakeable powers, knowing that they will never again gain power through the ballot box. Opinion.

The ISA Jewish Division: Friend or foe?

Thirty years ago Israel deported Hamas. The world sent it back.

Two weeks after Rabin agreed to take back the Hamas terrorists, the World Trade Center was bombed by the Islamic Group which, like Hamas, had come out of the Muslim Brotherhood. Opinion.

Thirty years ago Israel deported Hamas. The world sent it back.

There’s a war being waged in Judea and Samaria

Is rock-throwing harmless, “non-violent resistance?” It most certainly is not. Opinion.

There’s a war being waged in Judea and Samaria

A question for Pope Francis:

What is the true intent of "Nostra Aetate"?

Pope Francis, did you ignore the intent of “Nostra Aetate” to garner favor with extremist Palestinianism?

What is the true intent of "Nostra Aetate"?

Combating antisemitism:

Taking a leaf out of marketing

Define the broad market. Break the market into segments with shared characteristics. Target the segments, each with a pinpoint strategy, Opinion.

Taking a leaf out of marketing

Hatred towards Religious Zionists and Haredim

Antisemitism, Jewish self-hatred, and resentment of Torah scholars are not separate phenomenona; they have much in common. Opinion.

Hatred towards Religious Zionists and Haredim

In light of revealed ISA prejudice:

It is time for a review of the Duma arson trial

It is entirely possible that an objective review of the case would free Amiram Ben Uliel from a life in prison. That makes such a review imperative and now is the time. Opinion.

It is time for a review of the Duma arson trial

The “moderate Muslims” and the “handful of extremists”

The biggest mistake on the part of those either too ignorant or too timid to ban Shari’a, is that they convince themselves that Shari’a is for Muslims only, and in any case, applicable only to family matters. Opinion.

The “moderate Muslims” and the “handful of extremists”

Turkey’s Transformation:

Why the West must reclassify Turkey as a Middle Eastern threat

Western governments continue treating Turkey as a European partner rather than what it truly has become: a Middle Eastern power with destabilizing ambitions. Opinion.

Why the West must reclassify Turkey as a Middle Eastern threat

Jack Engelhard:

What is a man?

A friend, a scholar, tells me that kids today, among the ones he teaches, find Scriptures too masculine…signs of the times, that is, our times and our new sensibilities. Opinion.

What is a man?

Germany needs an organized pro-Israel community

This is the only way to combat the government’s attacks on Jerusalem, a government which claims to have learned the lessons of the Holocaust by embracing the role of moral policemen tasked with preventing “their victims from relapsing.” Opinion.

Germany needs an organized pro-Israel community

Antisemitism today:

How do I hate thee?

In the putatively evolved 21st century, the historical scourge of rampant Jew-hatred not only gallops across the globe but has also exploded exponentially in hundreds if not thousands of colleges and universities in the USA! Opinion.

How do I hate thee?

Undermining justice in NYC:

The three faces of defending the indefensible

How virtue-signaling, click-seeking, and opportunism are affecting real justice.

The three faces of defending the indefensible

Jerusalem Post editor's arrest shows legal system’s failures

The idea that Israel’s state prosecution and legal system can interrogate a journalist because they do not like what he wrote is the behavior of a Marxist police state. Opinion.

Jerusalem Post editor's arrest shows legal system’s failures

A haredi view on army service: Part II

A new national service

Religious leaders, incluing haredi leaders, must begin to define the necessary efforts to run the country and protect it from its enemies. An Israeli National Service Authority suggsts an answer. Opinion.

A new national service

In order to survive, the Western Titanic should learn from Israel

Children win wars, not generals. Europe and West-leaning Asia do not seem to know that simple truth. Israel does. Opinion.

In order to survive, the Western Titanic should learn from Israel

The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel:

The deep roots of the Deep State

How the deep state was born in Israel and why, although not exclusively, it chose to focus on the legal system. Report.

The deep roots of the Deep State

From slavery to educational strategy:

How Freedom inspires visionary education

The Exodus is not a conclusion; it is a beginning. A reminder that freedom is not the destination, but the foundation point of a greater mission: to carry the legacy of the past into the promise of the future.

How Freedom inspires visionary education

Melanie Phillips:

The Gazan revolt

Hatred of Hamas doesn’t alter the endemic hatred of Israel and the Jews. Opinion.

The Gazan revolt

A haredi view on army service: Part I

Finding stable ground: The future of the Jewish State

This is part I of a 2-part article, expressing a haredi viewpoint on the conditions under which his sector might consider defending themselves instead of having others do so. It does not differentiate between those learning seriously and yeshiva dropouts.Opinion.

Finding stable ground: The future of the Jewish State

An Open Letter to US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio

The State Department must act against antisemitic Blood Libels that smack of the Middle Ages.

An Open Letter to US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio

Israel must win the peace

Under the guidance of the new Chief of Staff, Zamir and Defense minister Katz, the IDF has implemented tactics consistent with the notion of “total victory.” What will that look like? Opinion.

Israel must win the peace

The lies that made Zionists the villains of their own story

Pure, innocent, naive idealism played a part in young early Zionists' sacrifices. Their mistake was believing that the Arabs would want to be part of their utopia. The early Zionists were massacred — and then blamed for starting the fight.Op-ed.

The lies that made Zionists the villains of their own story

The ‘Blame Israel First Derangement Syndrome’

It can be seen in those who malign the Jewish state for a war it didn’t start and those who insist that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria pose a threat to Mideast stability. Op-ed.

The ‘Blame Israel First Derangement Syndrome’

Are you a liberal?

A handy guide and self-testing list of examples. Op-ed.

Are you a liberal?

Violence is not the same as Free Speech

Curse, terrify, threaten, and beat up a visibly Jewish male or female student and then call it "free speech"? Is that what the Constitution protects? Op-ed.

Violence is not the same as Free Speech

“Iran faces ‘bad, bad things,” What does Trump mean?

More than once, President Trump said he sent a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah warning that “Iran Faces’ Bad, Bad Things” if a new nuclear deal with the United States isn’t negotiated. Op-ed.

“Iran faces ‘bad, bad things,” What does Trump mean?

It’s so simple: Stop killing Jews

Like the Pharoah of the Exodus, Hamas and the PA refuse to stop the hate and the killing and do what would be best for their own people because killing Jews is always more important to them. Opinion.

It’s so simple: Stop killing Jews

Message for Eid al-Fitr March 29-April 1, 2025

"Eid Mubarak". “Let us love, Let us be loved”

The hostages' Muslim captors certainly do not love them, and equally certainly seek no love from them. Eid or no Eid, we offer no love to these monsters, and it is just as well they do not seek any from us. Opinion.

"Eid Mubarak". “Let us love, Let us be loved”

Methinks the left doth protest too much

A U.S. probe of the money trail to the Israeli machine operating to topple Benjamin Netanyahu should cause the movement's radical engineers to shake in their Birkenstocks. Opinion.

Methinks the left doth protest too much

A former hostage's advice:

Securing the release of the hostages

A different result requires a different plan. A plan of maximum pressure where the evil monsters realize that it is in their best interest to surrender and release all the remaining hostages at once unharmed. Opinion.

Securing the release of the hostages

Where is the Red Cross now?

The Red Cross makes no mention of the hostages and appears not to care. Opinion.

Where is the Red Cross now?

Haredi soldiers:

I enlisted in the IDF

The more haredim who join the army, the quicker the army will evolve into a haredi-friendly army. Opinion.

I enlisted in the IDF

Jack Engelhard:

Duped

Today we trust nobody, neither the media, nor the government, nor our leaders because they lied. Opinion.

Duped

Neutralizing terror leaders as an effective strategy

Targeting terror leaders is not just a small tactic—it is a must. But it cannot stand alone in the fight against terror groups which ignore human values, attack civilians, and threaten regional and global security. Op-ed.

Neutralizing terror leaders as an effective strategy

Endurance and Paradox: Ironic insights for Israel

Deliberate Israeli imaginations of approaching disappearance could help the People of Israel in suitably identifying what needs to be done for survival. Op-ed.

Endurance and Paradox: Ironic insights for Israel

Let the Gazans go

The time has come to face an ugly, undeniable truth: Gaza’s population is not going to change its stripes and must be relocated without delay. Opinion.

Let the Gazans go

The paradox of the Jewish antisemite

The Jew-hating Jews prod others while, cowards that they are, they hide behind those they prod. They love to be heard and seen but only to their limit of not endangering their lifestyle requirements. Opinion.

The paradox of the Jewish antisemite

The new Jewish fear and exile from Europe

When Natan Sharansky asked French intellectual Alain Finkielkraut whether “European Jewry has a future in Europe,” the philosopher responded with a question: “Does Europe have a future in Europe?” Opinion.

The new Jewish fear and exile from Europe

A golden bullet against Anti-Zionism

"Bread and circuses" still works—just as it did two thousand years ago. Op-ed.

A golden bullet against Anti-Zionism

Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state

Review of a new book by Victor Sharpe.

Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state

Gaza “protests”: the Western mind desperate for a fantasy

The “protests” we saw on the streets of Gaza this week, comical in their theatricality, are designed not to save Hamas, but to save “Muslim land” from falling into infidel - read Jewish - hands, Opinion.

Gaza “protests”: the Western mind desperate for a fantasy

The importance of the US-Israel-Azerbaijan strategic partnership

Beyond Muslim Azerbaijan’s relations with Israel and the United States, whether together or separately, Azerbaijan is a pro-Western country in its own right. Opinion.

The importance of the US-Israel-Azerbaijan strategic partnership

Yerucham Hesder Yeshiva students:

Singing in memory of our friends who fell in the war

The song written by Ephraim Yechman Hy"d of Gush Etzion, a student at the hesder yeshiva in Yerucham, and myself, is released here in his memory and that of all the other friends who fell fighting for the Land of Israel and its people.

Singing in memory of our friends who fell in the war




























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