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Dan Diker

Dan Diker is president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs and the longtime director of its Counter-Political Warfare Project.

The secretary of state’s visit to Judea and Samaria marks the first time that a U.S. administration has formally recognized the equality of Jewish sovereignty.
The Palestinian leadership faces a critical test: A durable peace with Israel with broad Arab backing is now possible, but only if the P.A. and the PLO cut their links with the Iranian regime, Islamist Turkey and their radical terror proxies and allied groups.
The increasingly mainstreamed BDS-BLM narrative poses a grave danger to the U.S. and European progressive and liberal Jewish communities.
Israel has paid a high international price in its own legitimacy over the past two decades for failing to expose and protest the Palestnians’ violations of Oslo.
The Trump administration’s proposal shifts the paradigm for peace by recognizing Jewish historical and legal rights to sovereignty on both sides of the 1949 armistice lines.
Continuing the civil-rights legacies of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Jewish anti-Zionist enmity for the Jewish state parallels the goals of Arab and PLO rejectionism of Israel, which in the latter case is rooted in Communist, Arab nationalist and radical Islamist manifestos.