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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.

Israelis realize that radical Islamists are well aware of our calendar and seem to make serious efforts to render our wisecrack about celebrating victory by stuffing our faces no longer funny.
The precision strike on Hamas and Islamic Jihad officers embedded in a mosque within a school compound is being falsely depicted as a mass-casualty incident.
The chutzpah of the joint statement by Washington, Cairo and Doha was characteristic of Hamas’s three stooges.
“Israel Undiplomatic” with Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev, Ep. 14
That Oded Ben-Ami and Yonit Levi are able to take time out of their frenetic schedules to hail the U.S. president as a high-functioning Zionist hero is as politically transparent as it is embarrassing.
The only “leak” worthy of praise rather than censure this week was made inadvertently by an IDF fighter in Gaza.
Israelis alternate between bracing for a blitz from Iran and suspecting the response to Haniyeh’s assassination in Tehran will elicit the same kind of sound-and-light show as the one that took place on April 14.
“Israel Undiplomatic” with Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev, Ep. 13
Israel must stop engaging in tit-for-tat strikes against Hezbollah and launch a serious campaign in Lebanon. “Red lines” aren’t merely for coloring books.
“Israel Undiplomatic” with Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev, Ep. 12
The Palestinian Authority leader’s letter to Donald Trump was both laughable and typically mendacious.
The latest pretext of “Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome” sufferers to blame the Israeli prime minister for, well, everything.