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They may actually make war with Iran less likely because they send the vital message that if Tehran attacks Israel, Jerusalem will hit back—and hard.
As well-traveled as they are, Israeli millennials are so conditioned by the freedoms they enjoy at home—and so enamored of cultures other than their own—that they frequently miscalculate the consequences of their actions abroad.
In the grand sweep of World War II history, Kurdish national aspirations have been little more than a footnote. With this latest incursion, it may stay that way.
Jews who play on Yom Kippur? It’s the perfect metaphor for an American demographic implosion and an era in which such heroes are an anachronism.
The assault on a German synagogue on Yom Kippur wasn’t about liberalism. Anti-Semites want to kill Jews—no matter the issue, excuse or location.
This frame of mind, which puts people into rival armies taking potshots at each other, is dangerously eroding intelligent debate.
The center-right’s support plunged between April and September partly because Benjamin Netanyahu, for the first time, adopted undemocratic tactics. Treating all Israeli Arabs as enemies also didn’t help.
Why is Europe still trading with Tehran? Why are Democrats still planning on reinstating a nuclear deal that doesn’t stop them from getting a bomb?
Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds to the Turks doesn’t mean that he will also abandon the region to Iran. But Netanyahu and the Arab states have to be alarmed by the situation.
The goal in both? To lampoon and disgrace those in the offensive images—one adult, the other a child—by way of their Jewishness.
Anti-Zionists may still be able to intimidate some people, like pop stars who visit Israel, but in the real world and even at the United Nations, their cause is an afterthought.
The flimsy corruption charges he’s facing are creating a precedent that is a greater threat to the rule of law and the future of Israel than anything he’s charged with doing.