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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.)

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?
Sept. 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.
Sept. 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.
Sept. 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
A Palestinian in Gaza holds a rocket launcher. Photo by Ahmad Khateib/Flash90.
Opinion
Why the new Palestinian rockets matter
They can cause a lot more harm than a rifle or knife.
Aug. 21, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Michigan State Sen. Sylvia Santana. Source: LinkedIn.
Opinion
Why is a Michigan senator ignoring the state’s victims of terror?
I am sure the victims’ families would be very interested in speaking with Sen. Sylvia Santana.
Aug. 15, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides in his office, October 2022. Credit: David Azagury/U.S. Embassy Jerusalem.
Featured Columnist
Ex-State Department officials admit they were wrong
So why should Israel listen to them now?
July 31, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Portraits of the late King Hussein of Jordan (left) and his son, King Abdullah II. Credit: Amnat30/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Mideast leader flouts democracy, receives American aid anyway
King Abdullah II has been praised, funded and armed by American presidents since he assumed the royal throne 24 years ago.
July 27, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
Palestinian and left-wing activists protest against the expulsion of Arab families from their homes in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Jan. 13, 2023. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.
Opinion
George Orwell would have loved this guy
The same people trying to keep members of one ethnic group out of a neighborhood—the very definition of “apartheid”—were standing there with signs accusing the Israeli authorities of “apartheid.”
July 18, 2023
Stephen M. Flatow
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