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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.
Israel needs to see the return of the hostages, but Benjamin Netanyahu wants to retain his new title as Winston Churchill reincarnate—a far more heroic legacy than being remembered for Oct. 7.
Terrorism never went away. We just stopped paying attention.
Thank goodness someone with a heavy hand is about to take the wheel in the White House. It will be an adjustment for Americans who grew accustomed to the much lighter touch of lightweights.
The court is drawing a moral equivalence between terrorists who behead Israeli babies, gang rape scores of Israeli teenagers, and murder, mutilate and torch 1,200 Israelis, and the undeniably just war Israel is waging in self-defense.
The Biden administration, and the record that Harris has inherited over these past four years, has left American Jews with many questions.
If this year of beheadings and ballistic missiles has taught us anything, it is that Islamic trash talk is real. American platitudes are mere sound bites.
Antisemitism, and its anti-American offshoots, has only gotten worse since 10/7.
Who knew that when it came to sheer raucousness, the Democrats could actually outdo Teamsters and Shriners?