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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.
When American flags are set aflame, a clear message is being sent: We want to see both Tel Aviv and Tennessee, burned to the ground.
Something has gone terribly wrong when kids, raised the world over on “Sesame Street,” have forsaken Bert and Ernie for murderous jihadis far grouchier than Oscar.
Iran is a world menace.
People still remember the Goldstone Report. The Goldstone Recantation never caught on.
Not unlike Julius Caesar, Israel received a number of stabbings over the past few weeks, none of which, fortunately, have been fatal.
With rising incitement against Jews globally, American Jews are feeling betrayed by former allies—those who are outspokenly antisemitic, and those who remain silent.
This is a time for serious people who will choose a side and take stands, and for Jews who are fully committed and won’t flinch.
Each day brings us closer to an election that isn’t generating much excitement.