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Stephen M. Flatow

Stephen M. Flatow is president of the Religious Zionists of America. He is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995, and author of A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror. (The RZA is not affiliated with any American or Israeli political party.)

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, on Feb. 13, 2017. Photo by Flash90.
Opinion
Lessons from a terrorist’s death
Released Palestinian Arab terrorists only return to their ways, whether as part of a “mainstream” movement or an “extremist” one.
Nov. 2, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Palestinians choose guns over butter
Imagine how many Arab lives might have been saved if money had been spent on medicine and equipment as opposed to weapons to fight the Israelis.
Oct. 19, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Israel Antiquities Authority Archaeologist Ari Levy holds a 2,000-year-old measuring table found near the Pilgrimage Road at the City of David in eastern Jerusalem on Jan. 6, 2020. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Palestinians’ most dangerous enemy is … archaeology
The mikvah was the latest in a series of discoveries in Israel during the past year, each of which contradicted the Arab propaganda narrative.
Oct. 6, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians rally in support of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in Tubas, northeastern Samaria, Sept. 27, 2020. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
Nobody is ignoring the Palestinians
There is no occupation. There is no apartheid. There is no demographic danger. Israel has addressed the Palestinian Arab problem to the best of its ability.
Sep. 29, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Former Israeli minister Yossi Beilin attends a Constitution, Law and Justice, Committee meeting at the Knesset on July 9, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
Yossi Beilin, still undermining Israel after all these years
Over the past decade-and-a-half, he has taken some positions that have surprised and alarmed many friends of the Jewish state.
Sep. 22, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
King George Street and Jaffa Street
Opinion
Say their names: The forgotten American victims of Palestinian terror
Where are the memorial rallies and candle-lit vigils? Where are the demands to bring the killers to justice? Where are the letter-writing campaigns to press the Trump administration to act?
Sep. 14, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Thomas L. Friedman
Opinion
Unpleasant news for Thomas Friedman
Does the level of the Kinneret have anything to do with the prospects for peace in the Middle East? He’d like you to think that it does.
Sep. 7, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian Authority textbooks. Credit: Matzav.com.
Opinion
Symbols (and symbolism) reveal a bitter Mideast truth
It’s more than about a map. Entire generations of Palestinian-Arab children have been raised on an image with a powerful message: All of Palestine belongs to the Arabs. None of it belongs to the Jews.
Aug. 31, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Hamas and Turkey
Featured Columnist
Old terrorists do not die, they just move to Turkey
I welcomed the idea of putting Sami Al-Arian on trial. Let Americans and the world see the lengths that terror’s supporters go in order to murder civilians riding a public bus.
Aug. 25, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Seth Rogen speaks at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con International on July 20, 2018. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Advice to Jewish celebs: Grow up!
They’re mad at their parents for being pro-Israel, so they take it out on the rest of us, battering the Jewish world with their incessant whining.
Aug. 3, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami addressing the 2019 J Street National Conference in Washington. Source: J Street/Flickr.
Opinion
How J Street is attempting to desecrate Tisha B’Av
The organization is making outlandish comparisons to a day of ancient Jewish mourning and trying to distract from the facts on the ground.
Jul. 27, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
Taylor Force
Featured Columnist
Return to rewarding terrorism?
The Democrat-controlled House Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs officially adopted an amendment to send $250 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority, despite an ongoing pay-to-slay Israelis policy.
Jul. 13, 2020
Stephen M. Flatow
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