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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.

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.
Impeachment fever may be “must-see TV,” but the optics seem terrible for Jews.
In a crowded field of Democratic candidates, he represents a resolute centrist with a proven record on the environment, public health, gun control and even a tax policy designed to narrow the inequality gap.
Israel had claims to Judea and Samaria; it did not invade another country, offensively, to take away its land. And the Palestinians weren’t living in a nation of their own that could be occupied.