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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.)

Kfar Adumim
Opinion
Again with the settlements?
The question of what steps strengthen the security of the Jewish state is something better left for Jerusalem’s leadership to decide.
Feb. 27, 2024
Stephen M. Flatow
U.S. President Joe Biden
Opinion
Biden’s foul language
Is a change coming in U.S. policy towards Israel?
Feb. 18, 2024
Stephen M. Flatow
Hostages
Opinion
It’s time for the US to go to court to protect its citizens
You may be surprised to learn that U.S. laws allow for the prosecution in the United States of crimes against Americans committed overseas.
Jan. 11, 2024
Stephen M. Flatow
Dennis Ross
Opinion
Old peace processors and the war in Gaza
Maybe it’s time to address the elephant in the room: Palestinian leadership has been and remains the obstacle.
Jan. 3, 2024
Stephen M. Flatow
USS Carney
Opinion
The Houthis: Who are they, and why are they messing with Israel?
They’ve managed to attack Saudi Arabian targets with cruise missiles, drones and mortars, causing damage to oil refineries and killing Saudi soldiers.
Nov. 28, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
U.S. Department of Justice
Opinion
It’s time for America to go to court
The United States has means to pressure terrorists if it has the will; indicting them by name is the first step.
Oct. 24, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
A Jewish man at prayer. Credit: Pixabay.
Opinion
Some thoughts on the war with Hamas
Americans urging for a two-state solution has created a sense among Palestinians that their cause is just; it is not. The Jew-hatred of its leadership is palpable.
Oct. 10, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
A Palestinian police car in Ramallah. Credit: Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Avoid creating another Mideast dictatorship
The Palestinian Authority tramples on civil rights daily. That is model for a state alongside Israel?
Sep. 28, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
A new neighborhood under construction in Ma’ale Hever, Judea and Samaria, on Dec. 28, 2022. Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90.
Opinion
Former Mideast envoy agrees that Oslo doesn’t bar settlements
You can’t have one set of rules for one party and a different set of rules for the other.
Sep. 21, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin with members of the IDF senior command in 1964—almost 30 years before the signing of the Oslo Accords. Photo by Avraham Vered/Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archive from the BaMachaneh collection. (Retake is based on a 2023 historical exhibit on Rabin by the Israeli Ministry of Defense at Ben-Gurion International Airport.)
Featured Columnist
Oslo at 30: What went wrong
The Palestinian Authority’s governance of Gaza would reveal “the ability of those who support peace and support the PLO to deal with Hamas,” said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Sep. 8, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Israeli Arabs protest in Umm al-Fahm, Oct. 22, 2021. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
Blame the Jews for everything
That is the new concerted strategy being undertaken across the board by the Palestinian Authority.
Aug. 29, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Abbas, Arafat
Opinion
‘Branding’ and other crazy Palestinian conspiracy theories
There have been some notable instances involving Palestinian Arabs, Israeli Jews and acts of physical humiliation. But they have been perpetrated by Arabs, not Jews.
Aug. 24, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
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