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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.
If Israel is going to rid itself of Hamas once and for all, it will have to make it quick.
Isolated and encircled from all sides, no nation of its size and population has ever had to cope with so many forces arrayed against it.
We can still go see a Broadway show or movie if we need cultural confirmation that Jews have always been the object of insatiable malice—the planet’s most enduringly persecuted people.
Biden has actually performed like a Zionist since Oct. 7.
Honest people understand that the plight of the Palestinians is merely a false flag in making antisemitism fashionable.
Honest people understand that the plight of the Palestinians is merely a false flag in making antisemitism fashionable.
Apparently, the First Amendment favors terrorists but not racists. Go figure.
Soon after Israel began its counteroffensive, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire. It declined to make any statement condemning Hamas.