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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.
Back-to-school shopping includes paramilitary gadgets and gear. Pepper spray is positively de rigueur. Keffiyeh scarves are being sold at student bookstores.
Identity politics doesn’t welcome everyone. It plays favorites.
The spectacle in our nation’s capital last week was sickening.
As a general rule, populism, nationalism and large cheering crowds have never been a welcome sight for Jews.
Watching President Joe Biden debate former President Donald Trump was a master class in American mediocrity.
If the hostages are going to be brought home, it’s only Israel that can be relied upon to accomplish it.
If Biden has some notion about how to end this war, he should consider this easy-to-remember maxim.
Amal Clooney, yes, wife of George, was one of the three “experts” that advised the ICC to equate Western democracy with Islamic terror.