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Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, where he directs the Forum on Life, Culture & Society. His most recent book is Beyond Proportionality: Israel’s Just War in Gaza.

Signing an agreement with the remnants of this crumbling regime is tantamount to no agreement. This cast of sorry diplomats is duplicity incarnate.
Those passionate about granola and mashed yeast apparently have been zealously trying to ban Israeli products since 2009.
Unlike missiles, they are far less expensive to manufacture and much faster to deploy. Bombarded factories can be easily rebuilt. This is a problem.
America’s new muscularity has placed the world on notice: This is no longer the United States of Obama and Biden. Red lines will be enforced.
The marketplace of ideas has ceased to be fully stocked because all ideas are no longer welcome. So much for Jews controlling Hollywood, mass media and book publishing.
In the span of human history, 250 years isn’t that long. Yet in this era of highly caffeinated, hyperventilated, hyper-partisan politics, the founding principles that unite us can get lost.
I’ll take Scrooge and the Grinch over Muhammad’s anti-Christmas humbug.
If looming bankruptcy, social unrest and violent crime are part of Mamdani’s prescription for a more progressive New York, people will leave.
For Zohran Mamdani, peace cannot come to the Middle East without the end of a Jewish presence. Does he feel the same way about New York?
Europe has suddenly awakened from its Islamic slumber as public disapproval of mass migration grows.
Thunderous gaslighting language eventually lit the match that materialized into senseless murder outside a Jewish museum.
Why should the federal government underwrite what are essentially trade schools in malicious anti-American, anti-Zionist propaganda?