Column
Americans can’t imagine the panic of people who may have no more than 15 seconds to find shelter for themselves, their children, their elderly parents and the disabled. How can this be described as anything but “terror”?
Israelis and Palestinians will suffer the consequences of shifting back to the failed policies of the past, likely descending into a new era of chaos instead of a hopeful time of opportunity.
Israel’s critics have distorted the facts, perverted international law and attempted to intimidate courts and law enforcement officials into adopting the critics’ bigotry.
Distorting the reality of the Temple Mount as a tool for spurring death and destruction comes naturally to the honchos in Ramallah and Gaza.
As the unification of the city is marked, the Biden administration thinks the best thing would be for Jews to lose a crucial court case. Are they right to think that defusing the crisis by giving up Jewish rights is the priority?
The rupture in ties isn’t about how best to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It is about prejudice against Jews.
Israel’s ruling class refuses to see the effect the U.S. administration is having on the Middle East—from the Taliban in Afghanistan to Syria to surging Palestinian violence against Israelis.
Political paranoia variously holds the Jews responsible for the death of the Messiah, spreading the bubonic plague during the medieval period and sparking two world wars.
One hundred years ago this week, the first mass killings of the conflict took place during a pogrom in Jaffa. Palestinians still act as if violence can make the Jews and Zionism go away.
Naftali Bennett had explicitly pledged that he would not sit in any government with Yair Lapid, “not with a rotation and not without a rotation,” because he “is right while Lapid is left.” It is now clear that he was negotiating the terms of a rotation the entire time.
If Jews feel threatened by some Christians through conversion or assimilation, Christianity itself feels threatened by Judaism—specifically, by the fact that the links between the two religions are far more fundamental than many Christians like to acknowledge.
If right- and left-wing parties can consider forming even a temporary coalition that illustrates both Netanyahu’s difficulties and the broad consensus on security issues.