Instead of adopting the Torah’s approach of besieging a city with starvation, thirst, and the spread of disease, we have embraced the opposite approach, and then complain when the war drags on, our soldiers are killed, and our hostages suffer privation and death.
Forget all the clichés and substitute this sentence: They need to fear us, and only then will they be deterred and learn to respect us. Op-ed.
The rogue nations – Russia, China, Iran – are winning, and there is little the West can do at this point to stop them, if there is not going to be a change in tactics. Op-ed.
Are good and decent people so easily manipulated? Opinion.
It is a maelstrom in the United States. Mr. Prime Minister, don’t go to the US now. Nothing will be gained and much can be lost. Opinion.
What are Israel’s objectives in this war and how close are we to attaining them? And what are Hamas’ objectives in this war and how close are they to attaining them? Op-ed.
If parts or all of Gaza are not controlled by Israel, and the Gazans stay put, then we are spinning our wheels, kicking the can down the road (perhaps not even that far down the road), and simply accepting that we will forever live with terror. Opinion.
History teaches us that succumbing to American pressure is often unwise and occasionally fatal. Ask Chiang Kai-shek. Op-ed.
Almost all Jews would prefer bipartisan support for Israel in the United States. And although many Jews maintain that support for Israel remains bipartisan, the current difference between the parties could not be more glaring. Opinion.
A nation can lose when it halts the battle when it has momentum and then informs its enemy where it is next attacking, so the enemy can regroup, rebuild, replenish, and re-strategize. And red below to see what defeat looks like. Opinion.
It seems that the people screaming for the PM's resignation now were screaming for his resignation on October 6. They assume that new elections will spell certain electoral defeat for Israel’s longest serving prime minister. They should learn a little history. Op-ed.
What are we missing? Why is Schumer, like a lapdog with a bone, suddenly obsessed with a Palestinian state? What do the Democrats – and the Israeli left – not understand? There is a missing piece to this puzzle. Op-ed.
Every present Republican member of the Senate (except maybe for Rand Paul) is far more supportive of Israel than Joe Biden ever was. Biden is a “lifelong supporter” of a certain type of Israel – docile, concessionary, secular, and deferential to American interests. Op-ed.
In a perfect world, in my view, every Jew would spend time as a soldier and every soldier would spend time learning in a yeshiva – the former to teach us how to fight, the latter to teach us what we are fighting for.
Perhaps good Muslims should use this Ramadan for soul searching on how best to uproot savage evil from their midst. And we should show as much concern for Ramadan as our enemies showed for our Simchat Torah. Opinion.
Israel should no longer indulge an organization that is pro-terror and anti-peace, not in Gaza and not in Jerusalem. Opinion.
America's policy: Heads, we lose; tails, they win. With those odds, further attacks are not only inevitable; they are logical.
The question is not one of sympathy with the families – but of effectiveness. If we stop the aid now, Gazans might storm Hamas strongholds and free the hostages. I will believe Gazan protests when they run en masse into the tunnels and bring out our hostages with them. Op-ed.
That the civilians of Gaza are so docile means that they are either cowardly - or complicit. Innocent they certainly are not. Op-ed.
We cannot expect the world’s outrage or even recognition of its own hypocrisy. We must muster our own. Opinion.
The justices are essentially politicians in robes, unelected, claiming to be preserving democracy while evidently mocking it. Op-ed.
“Free” has never been synonymous with “intelligent,” and this slogan is one of the dumbest imaginable. Opinion..
No one should be allowed to live here who does not want to be here, in the Jewish state. Op-ed.
The absence of righteous people defines a city 's moral worth far more than disingenuous assertions about its “innocent civilians.”
Would Guterres ever assert that the death of Gaza civilians past and future also does not “happen in a vacuum”? Hardly. Opinion.
We can put aside strife and fight a ruthless enemy, but we cannot put aside the Jewish history that finds us facing that enemy again. Op-ed.
The Daf Yomi Siyum at MetLife stadium in New Jersey had over 90,000 people, with separate seating..America is a democracy. Is Israel? Op-ed.
A democracy that can only endure by relying on an undemocratic institution is not a true democracy. It is a farce. Op-ed.
Life goes on as protesters continue to think they have to destroy democracy and become permanent rulers in order to save democracy. Op-ed.
Israel's government is "extreme?" We should all merit being called extreme by Biden, a clear indication that we are on the right path.Op-ed.
As the BIG chain holds a gun to its own head, it would be wise to consider whether they want to be merchants or political activists.Op-ed
In the Orthodox coddling of LGBT in its ranks, the emperor has no clothes! He is not wearing alternative garb, he is distorting Torah! Op-ed
Rabbi Soloveitchik spoke of Israel's creation as a sign that G-d is knocking on our door. Six knocks then, six since..Op-ed.
The headline alone must send shivers down some people’s spines.
The anarchist left does not want a Jewish state. It is patently clear that they also do not want a democracy. They are murdering it. Op-ed.
Democracy is not just the right of civil disobedience, that is one right among many and protests should not be able to ride over them.Op-ed.
These protests are the Israeli elite's attempt to supplant democracy with mobocracy. Spare us the crocodile tears. Op-ed.
I cannot assuage unfounded “concern over the Israeli government.” What I can do is express my concern about US Jewish leadership.Op-ed.
One difference: The judges do not appoint their successors nor are they given veto power over new nominees as the current Court has. Op-ed.
It is the death of the oligarchy, not the democracy, that has brought the likes of Aharon Barak to scream from the rooftops. Op-ed.
Israel is basically being told by the US that its new government may not implement the policies on which it was elected. Oh, really? Op-ed.
Is there a sane middle between those for whom he can do no wrong and those for whom he can do no right? Op-ed.
They didn’t want Netanyahu. Now that they have him, they want him to govern in the opposite manner from which he pledged to govern. Op-ed.
CJV Israel rep. on the election results:The more alienated a person is from Torah, the more they fear the specter of a strong Jew. Op-ed..
It is undoubtedly true that one can have more confidence in Smotrich implementing his political vision than Shaked implementing hers. Op-ed.
Those who feel Israel’s Jewish character would be better promoted by candidates that are neither religious or Zionist - think again! Op-ed.
Torahphobes do not really take the Torah seriously, or better said, they only take seriously the parts of Torah that appeal to them.Op-ed.
Bennett ran through three or four party names. The point was to vote him, as it is for Lapid, Liberman, Gantz, or Aryeh Deri. Op-ed.
I perceive you as desecrating our Torah, our peoplehood, and now our holy places, but we denounce violence against you.
The Torah is not changing. Homosexual conduct is forbidden, and no parades or bullying will change that. It is a personal issue. Op-ed.
An ambassador can be a statesman, loyally representing the country that appointed him, benefitting the country in which he serves. Review.
Sixty years of values-free public education has produced sixty years of values-free citizens. Op-ed.
We bask in its astonishing achievements but if a person wanted to destroy the Jewish state, there are several steps that he could take.Op-ed
What interest of the Jewish people is advanced by pretending that Gentiles are quasi-Jews, “traditional” but not religious? Opinion.
After every atrocity, someone intones “never again,” and someone else will intone “never again” after the next. But what about now?Op-ed
Why is it important that Jews survive if we are not going to observe the Torah? What would the world be missing if there were no Jews?Op-ed.
The error lies in seeing the acts of the settlers as crimes to be prosecuted rather than defense of the homeland not done by gov't. Op-ed..
The consequences of the conversion reforms, if passed, will be dire and it is not just the split that will occur in the Jewish world. Op-ed.
Sadly, this evil will always exist, but the likelihood of false accusations dwindles when there are multiple, unrelated victims. Op-ed.
MK Elazar Stern's remakrs on the Kotel partition are riddled with misstatements, platitudes, faulty reasoning and sophistries. Op-ed.
