Column
American Jews protesting the prospect of Israeli action to formalize its hold on territory aren’t defending chances for peace or a realistic plan to achieve it.
The boycott movement’s coronavirus hypocrisy doesn’t obscure its anti-Semitism. Good news about Israel will never convince those who hate it to change their minds.
Jews don’t need a crisis to tell them who or what they are. For Jews, the sense of who and what they are is what sustains them through such crises.
The prime minister, of all people, understands the workings of the free market.
Now, more than ever before, our organizations and their essential programs need help, support and commitment.
Complaints about expanding government power to curtail individual rights are not frivolous, but they must be superseded by the need to defend public safety.
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the fact that we live in an age of uncertainty. In such times, granting a veto over Israel’s borders to neighbors that are falling apart before our eyes does not advance the cause of peace.
Our reflection right now should bring us towards a spirit of unity. Unity between secular and religious. Unity between Israel and the Diaspora. Unity between Jews and our neighbors. Unity among our religious leaders, communal leaders and politicians.
The restrictions we are forced to endure is not a reason to give up hope. Instead, we should look to history and count our many blessings.
Should his release go forward, Omar Saeed Sheikh will become that rare thing—a jihadi who achieved legendary status not through “martyrdom,” but through defeating the system that imprisoned him. That is not an outcome that any Western government should desire.
Israeli Arabs are showing their alienation during the pandemic and feel that their votes have been ignored. But if integration is their goal, they need a new political party.
It took a different approach to the coronavirus from the start because it’s a very different kind of society. Unlike the pampered West, Israel permanently lives in a state of potential emergency and existential threat.