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Every action that his administration has taken stems from the understanding that the so-called “Israeli-Palestinian peace process” has failed repeatedly—not only as a result of being based on a false premise, but of following the same old paradigm.
President Trump’s extraordinary gesture of support for Israel and the rights of the Jewish people was evident in the historic statement. The U.S. has rightly concluded that falsely calling settlements illegal is not helpful for peace.
Protests and regime crackdowns show that Trump’s “maximum pressure” on Tehran is working. The worst thing Washington could do is to let up now.
When it comes to debating Holocaust collaboration, Poland will not settle for anything less than complete exoneration for its nation—a goal that doesn’t comport with the historical record.
I will fight back against the sexual McCarthyism of the current age with the same determination with which I fought against the political McCarthyism of my college days.
A call to emulate the activism of the Soviet Jewry movement in order to combat hate ought to resonate with a community that needs to rise above partisan divisions.
Nikki Haley’s memoir, which reveals how State Department veterans and White House “adults” sought to thwart the recognition of Jerusalem, puts the impeachment debate in context.
The European Court of Justice has discriminated against Jews by singling out Israeli businesses from Arab ones. Its ruling is deeply politicized and disreputable, owing everything to boilerplate European prejudice against Israel, and nothing to law and justice.
Israel’s critics talk of a “cycle of violence” in which the Jewish state is blamed for military escalations. But the problem is Palestinian politics and Iran, not Netanyahu.
An Israeli pullout would turn the West Bank into a second Gaza, leading to more Palestinian casualties and a lower quality of life.
Of all world leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been the most vociferous in warning of the danger to the Jewish state and the rest of the world posed by Tehran in general and by its race to obtain nuclear weapons in particular.
It inspired intolerance and suffering, as well as false hopes now echoed by supporters of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn. Why is it making a comeback?