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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.

The iconic TV psychologist’s introduction to his interview with Netanyahu encapsulated a view that everyone would do well to hear and internalize.
“Israel Undiplomatic” with Ruthie Blum and Mark Regev
“This is Hiroshima and Nagasaki on steroids,” the South Carolina senator told the defense secretary about Israel’s need to defeat Hamas in Gaza.
The temporary closure of the Qatari network’s Israel operations is a national-security measure, not a violation of values it doesn’t possess.
The obligatory Holocaust Remembrance Day mantra rings hollow in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre.
Regardless of one’s permanent residence, the very idea of an inhospitable “goldene medina” is unsettling, to put it mildly.
We can’t let policy be dictated by the feelings of the families and friends of the hostages. Take the case of Gilad Shalit, for example.
It takes courage and a dire situation for a left-wing academic to risk his livelihood and social standing to combat Hamas-inspired Jew-hatred.
It’s not unusual for Biden to trail off, mid-sentence. But in this case, he may have decided against completing his outrageous statement.
Failure to see the Palestinian body politic for what it is has served only to breathe new life into its decades-old death cult.
Dubbing IRGC headquarters in Syria a “diplomatic mission” is like calling Shifa a hospital.
Nadav Argaman’s hyped-up interview with Ilana Dayan was a let-down, other than to Netanyahu’s enemies.