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Evelyn Gordon

The deal involved changes to Basic Laws that may have been necessary in these political circumstances. But any country tinkers with longstanding constitutional arrangements at its own peril.
If everyone is considered a refugee, then in the end, nobody will be. If they’re an infinite class of people, then ultimately, the world will shut its gates to them all. Some countries are already doing just that.
Settlement construction during most of Netanyahu’s last nine years in office was lower than under any of his predecessors, including leftists like Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert.
Delegitimizing BDS is far from mission impossible.
Jewish tradition acknowledges “realpolitik” national concerns as morally valid even as it warns of the dangers of ignoring individual morality.
Recognizing the capital of the Jewish state—and considering the possible move of international embassies there—is now openly being debated in regions of the globe where Israel has faced considerable hostility in recent years.
Many young Jewish Americans are being taught that special affection and concern for their own people is wrong. And if so, then special affection and concern for Israel—the one country on earth belonging to their own people—is doubly wrong.
The very existence of a Jewish state, whatever its flaws, is grounds for rejoicing.
Some 2.1 million “refugees” live in 27 designated camps. They attend special UNRWA schools and health clinics, instead of the regular Palestinian ones. And senior P.A. officials have said explicitly that they are not and never will be entitled to citizenship in the Palestinian state.