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Sarah N. Stern

Sarah N. Stern

Sarah N. Stern is the founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a think tank that specializes in the Middle East. She is the author of Saudi Arabia and the Global Terrorist Network (2011).

The agonizing reality is that no matter how polite one is—no matter how humanistic, how compassionate—there will be those who single us out for hatred simply because we are Jews.
There has been a constant and unabated effort to defame the Jewish state, and erode its moral standing among the community of nations and delegitimize its very existence.
“Thought police” have cancelled speakers on campus. Students even cancel themselves over fear of arousing the angry mob. And, as is so often the case, the first victims of this particular form of tyranny are the Jews.
The crumbling of America’s stature within the community of nations is beginning to have a deleterious effect on some of the country’s (and Israel’s) closest friends and allies.
Israelis have held their tongues for decades, hoping that when the big, Iranian existential threat is upon them that the Americans will come through.
We are in complete denial if we believe that the nuclear threat is just about the Jewish state. Tehran has been in the business of deeply expanding its hegemonic empire into the Western hemisphere and replicating the pincer grasp it has established around Israel.
Just because the United States is tired of addressing the many challenges in the region doesn’t mean those problems will simply disappear.
And tactfully inform the U.S. president and secretary of state that negotiating “a longer, stronger deal” with Iran is clearly impossible.
The United States of America is now telegraphing feebleness in bold print to all of our enemies.
People are being heard in Tehran chanting, “Shame! Khomeini, let go of this country!” And, “Mullahs, get lost!”
Why is the blood and the pain of Palestinian children redder than the blood and pain of Israeli children? Why are there no human-interest stories about Israeli suffering?
Many people are debating whether it was Israel or Hamas that prevailed in these latest hostilities. The tragedy is that neither side won, and both sides suffer.