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A plan for cable cars to take worshippers to the Old City is debatable, but calling it a nefarious Israeli plan to ‘Judaize’ the capital reveals the motivations of some critics.
A condemnation of Trump and the implication that all people of faith are bound to oppose him creates a toxic mix of partisanship and religion.
In the wake of the national security advisor’s departure, members of the Trump administration have been at pains to stress that there will be no let-up in America’s policy of reimposing sanctions on Iran.
Many Americans have sunk back into a Sept. 10 mentality about terrorism. But the horror of the Second Intifada is still very much on the minds of Israelis.
It’s time for the world to choose: Either admit that the Palestinians aren’t actually refugees or finally start treating them as real refugees by granting them the basic right of resettlement.
As national security advisor, he acted as a break on the president’s neo-isolationism. The future of diplomacy with North Korea, the Taliban and even Tehran now hangs in the balance.
You’d think that this was a bigger bombshell than the news of Iran’s continued and very concrete efforts to develop nuclear warheads for its long-range missiles. You know, in its pursuit of regional hegemony and its stated aim of “wiping Israel off the map.”
Bernie Sanders’s embrace of Linda Sarsour is disqualifying even for progressives who care about the rising tide of anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism.
That Robert Mugabe died without ever having to answer for his crimes will come as a boost to the world’s remaining tyrannies, from the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Supporting choice is one thing. Advocating abortion to control the number of humans born in the Third World is the racist theory of eugenics, not women’s rights.
The problem with the HBO series about the summer of 2014 is not its subject matter, but its agenda of moral equivalence about a conflict whose story demands context.
The West’s concept of reason actually comes from the Hebrew Bible. Ideas such as an orderly and rational universe structured on a linear concept of time were revolutionary concepts introduced in the book of Genesis.