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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.
No other nation, most especially the United States, has ever been held to such an exacting standard of precision while responding in self-defense.
If Israel does what it must and what no other nation would hesitate in doing, perhaps this war will be the last.
Instead of all this Olympic-level prostrating, Jews should be standing up for their people and the nation-state created in their name.
In a woke minefield, disarming antisemitism is of very low priority. Another academic year and so many new accusations against Jews to learn.
It is safe to say this is more than enough legal jeopardy for a single human being to manage—especially one running for president. The campaign trail will be one long march of legal trials.
As if the atomic bomb and its potential to destroy the world wasn’t enough tension, Nolan introduces another Jewish character, Lewis Strauss—the opportunist to Oppenheimer’s moral idealist.
Jew-hatred comes in many sizes, shapes and colors, a vast cornucopia of contempt.
Don’t be surprised if Kagan remains the lone Jewish Justice for some time.