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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 protesters during clashes with Israeli forces along the border with Gaza on May 11, 2018. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
What if the Israelis didn’t shoot?
As soon as the Israelis stopped shooting, the mobs rushed forward . . . tens of thousands of Gazans streaming towards the border fence. Then hundreds of thousands.
May 17, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Gazans at the border with southern Israel as part of weekly Friday protests, May 4, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90
Featured Columnist
Fanning the flames of fire in Israel
Treating attempts to burn down Israel as unremarkable—as not even worthy of news coverage—is akin to saying that we should expect Palestinians to behave that way. It’s saying that they are inherently incapable of being rational, reasonable and peaceful.
May 9, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians demonstrate with posters marring the images of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump during a protest near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 30, 2018. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90
Featured Columnist
J Street loses direction on Gaza
While Israel’s critics think that the Gaza situation will prove to be Israel’s undoing, it’s much more likely that Gaza will lead to yet another stinging defeat for the J Street crowd.
May 3, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
From left: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, U.S. President Bill Clinton and Palestine Liberation Organization head Yasser Arafat at the signing of the Oslo Accords on Sept. 13, 1993. Credit: Vince Musi/The White House.
Featured Columnist
‘No,’ Mr. Schindler, there is no ‘occupation’
Educator Sam Schindler’s notions about Israel and the Palestinians seem to have been frozen in his adolescence. He’s so angry about having been “deprived” by his own teachers that he hasn’t noticed how much the Middle East has changed.
April 25, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Opinion
Elizabeth Warren’s Gaza problem
If mobs of firebomb-throwing foreigners were trying to storm across one of America’s borders, I doubt she would lecture our border guards to “exercise restraint.” There’s no justification for giving such advice to America’s ally.
April 20, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2017. Credit: White House/Shealah Craighead.
Featured Columnist
A raw deal: U.S. weapons for terror sponsors?
No major American Jewish or Zionist organization has criticized the proposal to provide Qatar with $300 million in U.S. rocket technology. Why is that?
April 17, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border with Israel, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 1, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90
Featured Columnist
Invasion of the ‘body counters’
Don’t be fooled by claims that the media emphasizes the number of casualties simply because they’re reporting the most important fact of the story.
April 10, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Harvard Yard on the university’s campus in Cambridge, Mass. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Harvard’s Jewish students flunk ‘Israeli History 101’
Anyone who is familiar with even the most cursory facts about the Middle East knows that the Jewish state’s occupation of the Palestinians ended 23 years ago.
April 4, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinians wave a flag near the border fence east of Kahn Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 19, 2017. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90.
Opinion
‘Three little terrorists’ represent all that’s gone wrong in 30 years
The men who crossed into Israel from Gaza were nothing to worry about, according to the media and the left. It’s a story we’ve heard before, and it doesn’t have a happy ending.
March 28, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström with former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Swedish meatballs for Palestinian terrorists
In another form of Israel-bashing, the foreign minister of Sweden attempts to justify huge amounts of aid to the Palestinian Authority by saying the money is needed to feed “starving Palestinian children.” In reality, some of the money gets channeled for terror operations, while the kids have enough on their plates.
March 22, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Why does Ronald Lauder want Israel to be only nine miles wide?
Nine miles wide. It would take an Arab-tank column a matter of minutes to cut Israel in two.
March 20, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli soldiers near the border fence east of Gaza City on Dec. 22, 2017. Credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
The Trump administration just doesn’t get Gaza
No matter how hard the State Department crowd wishes it, the Palestinian Authority is not going to fight Hamas for control of Gaza. In fact, it’s not going to fight Hamas at all.
March 16, 2018
Stephen M. Flatow
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