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Gregg Roman

Gregg Roman is director of the Middle East Forum. He previously served as an official in the Israeli Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense.

Taking far tougher measures against incarcerated terrorists will have a deflating effect on Palestinian society, and force the much-needed message that terrorism and violence do not pay.
The nascent Israeli government is being tested on multiple fronts and must move away from the risk-aversion approach of previous leaderships.
In time, when some of the anger subsides, the country’s representatives will need to start acting once again in the interests of the people who elected them.
Israel needs to assert control, then provide deterrence and finally propel forward against those who would seek harm to its citizens and act in favor of security.
Victory is no longer just a conceptual goal—it is the operational mission of the Israel Defense Forces. Now it must receive the backing of the political leadership.
The Tel Aviv mayor has apparently decided that censorship is necessary to ensure Israelis don’t veer from the tired paradigms that have underpinned almost 30 years of failed peace-planning.
If her track record is any sign, picking up the phone and bringing down the hammer on Qatar should be no problem.
The Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee’s Community Relations Committee is scheduled to host the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has managed to almost completely ignore a vast ideological hate network: American Islamists.