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Unlike empires of old, the Islamic Republic exercises its rule indirectly through proxy forces, equipping and empowering them to take over countries ravaged by instability in Tehran’s name, all while maintaining a guise of plausible deniability to evade accountability.
Hanukkah arrives early, but so do the inevitable efforts to secure equal time with Christmas. Why American Jews need to stop trying to cleanse the public square of religious symbols.
The Israeli prime minister’s social-media team blocked a bereaved parent—on the day of Eliyahu Kay’s killing, no less.
The administration’s claim that efforts to stop the nuclear threat are counterproductive is a message to both Jerusalem and Arab nations that they’re being dumped to appease Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and his ministers are dismantling everything the Netanyahu governments achieved.
With the United States refusing to punish China for genocide of the Uyghurs, it’s time for religious groups and others who purport to care to take a meaningful stand against tyranny.
President Andrzej Duda likening the demonstrators’ actions in Kalisz to “treason,” and several members of parliament expressed an almost physical disgust. It’s clear that these far-right nationalists do not speak for the majority of Polish citizens.
The administration is already floating new concessions while the Iranians are flouting international nuclear monitors. Washington has lost the game before it started, and Israel is clearly on its own.
Like so many liberals in Britain, America and elsewhere, he selects aspects of an issue that conform to his idealistic viewpoint while blanking out those that undermine it.
The U.S. Constitution isn’t a blueprint for a purely secular country. But it guarantees that all creeds are welcome and that the nation has no state religion. Those who would change that endanger everyone’s rights.
Natalie and Mordy Oknin would already be on a plane back to Israel if Erdoğan were to give the go-ahead. He rules Turkey’s roost, and all attempts to gloss over that fact are counterproductive.
A U.S. abstention on a resolution supporting the UNRWA refugee agency that fuels Palestinian demands for a “right of return” demonstrates the administration’s misunderstanding of why the conflict continues.