Column
The March 2 elections present Israelis with a stark choice: maintain the model that has brought unprecedented triumph, or revert to the model that brought us to the depths of despair and weakness.
Visceral hatred of Israel is common even in countries with which it has peace treaties. Not only does this hinder peacemaking, but it creates a real risk that treaties won’t survive an autocrat’s fall.
The Blue and White leader’s embrace of annexing the Jordan Valley is the product of a broad Israeli consensus on the lack of a peace partner that Americans ignore.
The ballot is no symbolic vote. That’s why the left, the right and every other sector of American Jewry are correct to view it as important.
Bemoaning all the apparent attention on the Jews prior to the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, a columnist for the official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper “Al-Hayat Al-Jadida” proposed murder as a solution to stop the proceedings.
The Allies’ refusal to devote sufficient resources to rescue and halt the Nazi murder factory is one more reason why a sovereign State of Israel is necessary.
Protesters are rejecting the basic principles and worldview of the Islamic Republic; they are again proving that the people of Iran should not be confused with the Islamic Republic that rules them.
If President Reuven Rivlin does not allow his Polish counterpart to speak at the event, the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem next week will be a missed opportunity of strategic proportions.
Has Yad Vashem’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz been hijacked by Israeli political rivalries and the long reach of Vladimir Putin?
The Democratic presidential candidates agree that wars are bad and so is the president. But they aren’t presenting any serious policy options to deal with Tehran.
It’s clear that all this Holocaust memorializing and education hasn’t put anti-Semitism back in its putrid box.
The long delayed “deal of the century” won’t end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though it can advance realism and undermine establishment thinking that set back peace.