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Ruthie Blum, a former adviser at the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is an award-winning columnist and a senior contributing editor at JNS. Co-host with Ambassador Mark Regev of the JNS-TV podcast “Israel Undiplomatic,” she writes on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. Originally from New York City, she moved to Israel in 1977. She is a regular guest on national and international media outlets, including Fox, Sky News, i24News, Scripps, ILTV, WION and Newsmax.

Given the blunders of Oct. 7, the new IDF chief’s approach should be welcomed. But the chattering-class choir is refusing to change its tune.
According to the U.N. report’s Orwellian inversion, “Israel has increasingly employed sexual violence against Palestinians.”
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum, Ep. 44
Israeli feminists fit in perfectly with the groups concerned with the plight of females, as long as they aren’t the wrong kind of Jews.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum, Ep. 43
Unlike Zelenskyy, the darling of the West, Netanyahu’s been vilified and his country condemned, even by allies, including Ukraine, at the United Nations.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum, Ep. 43
An alien from another planet might assume that Benjamin Netanyahu, not Hamas, perpetrated the Oct. 7 massacre.
The children of Gaza and the Palestinian Authority are raised on a steady diet of hatred. Their heroes are bombers, not Batman.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum, Ep. 42
Though Bibi opted not to take advantage of the U.S. president’s ultimatum to Hamas, the rallying cry against him from the usual suspects continues.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum, Ep. 41