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Yisrael Medad is an American-born Israeli journalist, author and former director of educational programming at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. A graduate of Yeshiva University, he made aliyah in 1970 and has since held key roles in Israeli politics, media and education. A member of Israel’s Media Watch executive board, he has contributed to major publications, including The Los Angeles Times, The Jerusalem Post and International Herald Tribune. He and his wife, who have five children, live in Shilo.

These past few weeks have seen Jewish men and women, even those called rabbis, identifying with Hamas.
The more we display weakness and fear, the bolder the enemies of Israel become.
One cannot escape the thought that Hamas derived self-confidence from the internal controversy within Israel since January and the constant negativism that the protests adopted.
The darkness in the thinking of the leading protest figures is descending into surrealism.
Protest leaders in Israel are revving up mobs by convincing them that the elected leadership of the country is a group of fascistic thugs that will turn the country into Iran or Nazi Germany.
Ze’ev Jabotinsky wrote in a 1926 pamphlet that after the establishment of the Jewish state, “a considerable Arab population always will remain … if things fare badly for this group of inhabitants, the entire country will fare badly.”
I think that there needs to be a minimal level of knowledge of historical facts before serious intellectual intercourse can be conducted on Twitter or other type-in-your-rant-and-insult locations.
The Reform Rabbi Eric Yoffie and the haredi Rabbi Avi Shafran must confront their failings to history, human rights and the value of Judaism.
It is a pledge to uphold the fundamental, self-evident right of the Jewish people to be able to live and flourish in its historic homeland.
If the State Department insists consulate-disguised-as-a-unit is truly a necessity, then why not establish it in Ramallah or Bethlehem?
He set out more than a decade ago to undermine the American Jewish establishment and serve as the prime catalyst for its desired failure.
How did two “proud Jews” come to punish Arabs by denying them ice-cream to protest what they dislike about the Jewish state’s policy?