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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.

Who knows if the living portrayal of this fictional character will turn out to be Trump, Khamenei or Netanyahu?
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum
Israel, like Judaism, promotes the directive to “be fruitful and multiply.” But that doesn’t mean the government is responsible for raising our children.
Canceling his performances in Israel over Netanyahu’s treatment of the “whole Palestinian issue,” the venerated conductor hypocritically asserts that music can’t be separated from politics.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum
For going on 47 years, the mullahs have been brutally subjugating the Iranian people and terrorizing the globe, while “enlightened” apologists beg to bargain their way to La La Land.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum
If public broadcasters hadn’t drifted so aggressively into progressive activism, they might never have become targets in the first place.
Critics of the Venezuela operation are regurgitating platitudes about “escalation” and the fragility of international order.
WATCH: “Israel Undiplomatic” with Mark Regev and Ruthie Blum
Where there’s a will for a schism between Trump and Netanyahu, the latter’s detractors will find a way to fabricate one.
As I walk through the terminal, carrying the weight of the shiva along with my luggage, I suddenly understand the traditional Jewish condolence phrase: “May you be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.”