Opeds (Page 8)


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

Shabbat Shalom:

To those who carried the principles when institutions failed

Every week there are people who restore a little of our faith, not always in institutions, but in humanity.

To those who carried the principles when institutions failed

A relationship via an AI-Robot is pure Idolatry

When people feel they can no longer believe in permanent truths that transcend their single Self, they turn to an 'idolatry of self- centeredness', for example, they live autonomous lives and turn to robotic AI for companionship. Opinion.

A relationship via an AI-Robot is pure Idolatry

July 4th - 1776 and 1976

Two G-d sent miracles - America winning the Revolutionary War and Israel's success in freeing the Entebbe hostages - were heard round the world.

July 4th - 1776 and 1976

Amit Segal

How Hamas is trying to rebuild after 1,000 days of war

Is the terrorist organization quietly recovering? Without the level of destruction the IDF wrought on it, Hamas would have already become a monstrous threat again. Opinion.

How Hamas is trying to rebuild after 1,000 days of war

For July 4, 2026:

Semiquincentennial Fever

What is true about the virtues of US is also true about Israel. We also seek only the good of mankind, only to be castigated even by those we try to help. Opinion.

Semiquincentennial Fever

Giulio Meotti:

Multicultural barbarism is destroying Europe from within

We condemn our fascist and Nazi past, but we do not understand it. Because understanding it would mean recognizing that terror does not only come in brown or gray uniforms, but also under the black veil and the green flag. Opinion.

Multicultural barbarism is destroying Europe from within

The NY Socialist Surge:

A warning America cannot afford to ignore

One of America's most influential cities is becoming the principal laboratory for an ideological social experiment which has failed before. The lessons are neither abstract nor academic. They are written in cemeteries across continents. Opinion.

A warning America cannot afford to ignore

The Theological Imperative:

Why Western diplomacy fails in the Middle East

By prioritizing a diplomatic breakthrough at any cost, mediators overlook a critical, defining reality-this is fundamentally a religious war. Opinion.

Why Western diplomacy fails in the Middle East

Jonathan Tobin:

The Israel they hate is imaginary

The younger generation’s opposition to a “genocidal" Jewish state has become one of the organizing principles of U.S. politics. But these toxic beliefs have nothing to do with the actual State of Israel. Anyone who visits sees that immediately. Opinion.

The Israel they hate is imaginary

The Democrats:

A Big Tent for arsonists

Only a very particular breed of coward welcomes into any tent the people who have already announced their intention to burn the tent down. I cannot wait to see what climbs out of the clown car next and enters the Big Tent. Opinion.

A Big Tent for arsonists

Post October 7th:

Israel divided: Ideological politics in the Jewish State

The history of the right vs. left ideological divide in Israel has taken a strange turn in the aftermath of October 7, after it was the mostly left-leaning kibbutzim who were invaded. Opinion.

Israel divided: Ideological politics in the Jewish State

From the Hebrew press:

Our sons did not give their lives for the world’s energy market

The blood of the fallen cries out to us from the ground and demands that we bring a clear victory, and not settle for weak compromise agreements and mere postponement of the inevitable.

Our sons did not give their lives for the world’s energy market

No pieces of paper ever bound the Islamic Republic

Comparing Presidential deals is futile. Trump’s two sheet memo, like Obama’s one-sixty sheet nuclear deal, is meant to stop Israel winning wars. Opinion.

No pieces of paper ever bound the Islamic Republic

Trump may be playing Iran's hand, but Israel cannot be the stakes

Even a strategically coherent plan can carry unacceptable risks if the price of failure is paid by America's closest ally in the Middle East. Opinion.

Trump may be playing Iran's hand, but Israel cannot be the stakes

America as a new ‘Light Unto The Nations,’ - or I told you so

They played the POTUS like a fiddle once, and are doing likewise now. Trump's newest “deal" is worse than the previous ones. Op-ed.

America as a new ‘Light Unto The Nations,’ - or I  told you so

An Archbishop, terrorists, and the Christians she chose to ignore

What the Archbishop of Canterbury did this week during her visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas facilitates those who support violence at a time when Christian communities have been devastated throughout much of the Middle East. Op-ed.

An Archbishop, terrorists, and the Christians she chose to ignore

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The inversion of Reality

We are increasingly teaching children to interpret the world through the binary of oppressor and oppressed, enforcing a framework which concludes that power before principle, identity before behaviour and grievance before responsibility are defining principles. Op-ed.

The inversion of Reality

From the Hebrew press:

New York. The end.

New York's Jews are living on borrowed time. Opinion.

New York. The end.

Alma Research Center Analysis:

The Israel-Lebanon Framework Agreement: What is the "end game"?

Consistent implementation, accompanied by sustained international pressure, may create a historic opportunity to strengthen the Lebanese state, weaken Hezbollah, and improve regional security and stability.

The Israel-Lebanon Framework Agreement:  What  is the "end game"?

Christians are burning and Western media are cold and silent

New digital catacombs: Christians massacred and the news buried. How can that be condoned? Opinion.

Christians are burning and Western media are cold and silent

Haaretz’s ideological mission: Dismantling the Jewish state

What was it that moved the progressive paper to declare its hostility to Zionism after years of disingenuous denial? Op-ed.

Haaretz’s ideological mission: Dismantling the Jewish state

The price of appeasement

Herzl thought that Jew hatred would end if we had our own state. Many in the world, including misguided Jews, today believe that Jew hatred would end if we didn’t have a state. There is no apeasement that works. Op-ed.

The price of appeasement

The banality of Antisemitism

Parties and ideas once stigmatized are gaining ground precisely because elites prefered to scapegoat Zionism rather than address uncomfortable realities. That policy is being revealed as a boomerang. Op-ed.

The banality of Antisemitism

Herod, Bar Kochba, Trump and Huckabee: The Battle for Eternity

No small nation in the Mediterranean basin could survive in that era without aligning with one power or the other, and the Jews knew this as well as anyone. Is it true today? Opinion.

Herod, Bar Kochba, Trump and Huckabee: The Battle for Eternity

Civil Disobedience

Today the battle is over New York. Yesterday it was London. Tomorrow it will be another city, another nation, or another people who convinced themselves that history could not happen to them. Opinion.

Civil Disobedience

Jack Engelhard:

Trump’s successful game of Rope-a-Dope

If Iran keeps on toying with him, he’s got all the power to lower the boom. And he gave them a taste of that this weekend. Opinion.

Trump’s successful game of Rope-a-Dope

Tehran's threats against Trump and Israel cannot prevent its fall

The Fall of Tehran is no longer a question of if-only of when. Opinion.

Tehran's threats against Trump and Israel cannot prevent its fall

No F-35s for Erdogan:

America must not reward a Hamas-harboring regime

The United States should resist the temptation to treat the F-35 program as a diplomatic bargaining chip. America's most advanced military technologies should be reserved for real partners. Opinion.

America must not reward a Hamas-harboring regime

Nuclear risks to Israel:

Looking behind a contrived "peace"

Potentially existential dangers could be produced by enemy hacking operations, computer malfunction (accidental nuclear war) or decision-making miscalculation. Israel must be prepared. Opinion.

Looking behind a contrived  "peace"

When Pay-for-Slay came out of the closet

A U.S. State Department notification to Congress reportedly found that the PA distributed roughly $156 million in “pay-for-slay" stipends during 2025-in direct contradiction to America's Taylor Force Act. Op-ed.

When Pay-for-Slay came out of the closet