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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.
There’s a long history of playing fast and loose with footage and forensics when it comes to describing events that take place in the Holy Land.
Look around. Chaos is everywhere, along with declining public confidence in just about everything.
Beginning with the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran has hosted an annual worldwide hate-fest against Jews, celebrated on the last Friday of Ramadan.
You can’t get a straight answer out of anyone these days.
Forty years after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Putin decided that it was time to once again install some drapes.
The typecasting of Jews on the frontier puts the lie to the cushy, exploitative lives of privileged Jewish-Americans.
With each passing year, there are fewer surviving witnesses, and Holocaust memory has lost the solemnity it once had.
District attorneys are charged with enforcing the law, not reforming it. They may be elected officials, but politics cannot color their discretion.