Column
The anniversary of the death of Dudu Topaz is a reminder of the cultural root of polarization in the Jewish state.
We didn’t need the Salman Rushdie attack to be reminded that Tehran inspires and subsidizes terror. The question now is what will Congress do to stop a new and weaker nuclear deal?
President Biden should consider the assault to be a metaphor for the dangers inherent in the West’s falling prey to the deadly machine that emboldened the terrorist from New Jersey. But he didn’t even dare to mention the “fatwa”—or terrorism—in his public statement.
Signs of support for coexistence continue to appear. But the Israel-bashing at a U.N. Security Council debate is a reminder that full acceptance is not here yet.
The word “apartheid” is key to understanding why more than the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, most of Europe and even parts of the Islamic world, it South Africa that has proved so receptive to the core contention that Israel has no right to a sovereign, independent existence.
Liberals are again reviving the canard that criticizing the man bankrolling the destruction of America’s criminal-justice system is a dog whistle for Jew-hatred. They need to stop.
Belief in the myth of Jewish power haunts the U.S.-Israel relationship and helped inspire a decades-long hunt for a peace process “holy grail” that was really a “MacGuffin.”
Israel displayed unparalleled military dominance in its three-day campaign against Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip; and the international community wants caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid to remain in office.
The government in Jerusalem constantly calls for unity. What might help in this virtually impossible endeavor would be a heavy dose of empathy for those bearing the brunt of the enemy’s will—and repeated attempts—to annihilate the entire Jewish state.
“Operation Breaking Dawn” was a tactical success but a strategic failure that legitimized Hamas and undermined Israel’s position in the battle against Iran.
Critics have never cared about rocket attacks, terrorism or even about the Palestinians. The argument remains about whether one Jewish state on the planet is one too many.
If anything positive came out of the Gaza Disengagement, it is that further withdrawals are now considered just as unlikely to bring about peace. We now know for certain that they only bring further terror.