Opeds (Page 6)


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

Temple Mount: problem and solution

Is there any hope on the horizon for a reversal from seemingly universal Muslim antagonism toward the “devious Jew” to peaceful accommodation with the Jewish Abrahamic brother? Read a possible Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi Legacy. Opinion.

Temple Mount: problem and solution

The bottom line:

Trump forced Israel to relinquish its military advantage in Gaza

Follow the money invested in Qatar. It is the only way to understand why Israel was forced to lose the momentum enabling it to destroy Hamas and to agree to another hudna. Opinion.

Trump forced Israel to relinquish its military advantage in Gaza

'The Forward' takes education backward

It misportrayed Hassidic Jews as hapless victims, denied the education they need to support themselves, and not so subtly belittled them for having more children. Op-ed.

'The Forward' takes education backward

Betrayal:

Ydanis Rodriguez’s moral collapse cloaked as political pragmatism

By throwing his weight behind Mamdani, a politician whose anti-Israel extremism and flirtations with antisemitic rhetoric have roiled Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs, Rodriguez has shattered his moral standing. Opinion.

Ydanis Rodriguez’s moral collapse cloaked as political pragmatism

Abbas‘s “temporary” replacement:

A profile of Hussein al-Sheikh

Same character. Different suit. Opinion.

A profile of Hussein al-Sheikh

The road to October 7:

An attack 1500 years in the making

The horror of October 7 can’t be separated from the centuries of anti-Jewish violence that preceded it. Opinion.

An attack 1500 years in the making

Prophetic times:

The question asked in the White House briefing room

Trump’s Gaza deal is a terrible mistake. It’s painful to watch. But even human errors can’t derail God’s plan. And the question was asked. Opinion.

The question asked in the White House  briefing room

How Azerbaijan Pres. Aliyev's visit to Kazakhstan affects Israel

Diplomatic equilibrium between the Turkic states and Israel signals expanded possibilities for the Jewish state in its relations with an Eurasia rapidly becoming the world's new center of gravity. Opinion.

How Azerbaijan Pres. Aliyev's visit to Kazakhstan affects Israel

From Defense to Offense:

Are Jihadists exploiting 'intersectionality' to fool you?

Israel must expose Jihadist exploitation of "intersectionality." Rather than arguing about false accusations against Israel, it should explain to the West that global Jihadist and global intifada partners in the intersectionality movements seek total victory over Western civilization. Opinion.

Are Jihadists exploiting 'intersectionality' to fool you?

The origins of today’s anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric

Today’s Jew-haters are parroting the rhetoric of the Nazis, the Soviets and the Islamists. They are unaware that they are the heirs of the Nazis and Stalin. Opinion.

The origins of today’s anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric

Jack Engelhard:

Gloomy New Yorkers

Says the NYC man-in-the-street: ‘’This is so disturbing. I know people who are leaving. I’m thinking about it myself.” Opinion.

Gloomy New Yorkers

An "unredeemable" asset:

Israel's survival in time

Though Jerusalem’s defense and security policies ought always to be science-based, these policies would still benefit from variously other refined understandings. Opinion.

Israel's survival in time

Giulio Meotti:

How Qatari money influences the UN circus

Qatar has given one million dollars to UN Women "in an effort to strengthen its commitment to promoting the empowerment of women and girls around the world." In burqas, of course. Opinion.

How Qatari money influences the UN circus

Treating Israel Like a Banana Republic?

Here’s how Israel stops being treated that way

Begin did it with quiet firmness; Netanyahu can, too, making sure that when a U.S. president seeks to “call the shots,” Israel still holds the trigger. Opinion.

Here’s how Israel stops being treated that way

Qatar feigned mediation:

Why Doha keeps harassing Israel

Senior Arab voices and Israeli critics warn that excessive Qatari involvement in postwar Gaza risks sabotaging any effort to remove Hamas from power. An arsonist does not make a good contractor. Opinion.

Why Doha keeps harassing Israel

Whose homeland?

The wording of a resolution to be presented at the WZO conference this week on relations with Christian Zionist allies, makes it sound as though Israel is the homeland of Christians as well as Jews. Clear boundaries are needed. Opinion.

Whose homeland?

The Chen Zhi Crypto Fraud: A blow to antisemitic myths

The Chen Zhi scandal shows that Jews are far from causing the worldwide financial corruption and scams they are accused of masterminding. Opinion.

The Chen Zhi Crypto Fraud: A blow to antisemitic myths

Faith, freedom, and the weight of history

The friendship between America and Israel isn’t built on convenience, but on shared belief in God, in freedom, and in moral clarity. Opinion.

Faith, freedom, and the weight of history

What would a Mayor Mamdani mean for American Jews?

If efforts to unite opponents against an antisemitic Democratic Socialist fail, what will be the consequences for Jewish life in New York City or the rest of the country? Opinion.

What would a Mayor Mamdani mean for American Jews?




























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