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Zahava Englard Shapiro

Zahava Englard Shapiro is a Jerusalem based author and writes books, articles, and news analysis focusing on Israel and other matters of Jewish interest.

Israelis are so used to our government bargaining away our inherent rights to our land that few bat an eyelash over it. That, in and of itself, is a sad statement on Israel’s national pride, or lack thereof.
By providing an excuse to delay taking decisive action against the terrorist threat on Israel’s southern border, is the air-defense system making the situation worse?
American Jews can still wise up, focus on the big picture and make a difference at the voting booth. The absence of organized Jewish leadership does not exempt anyone from personal responsibility.
Let Ayelet Shaked win; in doing so, with a united right-wing bloc under her leadership, Israel wins.
We, the people of Israel, must demand deterrence. Our security will come about by winning—by determining what the end-game must be and by unapologetically seeing it through.
Driven by a vision of becoming a nation like all others, Zionists believed that global Jew-hatred would end once we, the Jewish people, returned to our ancestral lands and reestablished our state. They were wrong.
Can it be that the Federation’s “we need to talk” mission dreads actually talking, and is simply interested in pushing its agenda?
We wait for our leadership to stand as proud Jews against our enemies. With strength of conviction and a desire to be victorious.
As it has been throughout the generations, it is our people’s fate to fight and to struggle for the preservation of our existence until such a time as our swords will be set aside for plowshares.