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Negotiations are Trump’s goal. Still, the threat of war against Hezbollah in Lebanon illustrates the high price of appeasing Tehran.
The epidemic of attacks against Jews in Brooklyn, N.Y., is a crisis, but it’s an afterthought to groups interested in weaponizing the issue for partisan purposes.
We Israelis are used to having our tax shekels spent on futile, top-down endeavors born of nanny-state committee meetings held to interpret and tackle societal phenomena. No wonder there’s a sense that voting won’t change anything.
The gap between those promoting left-wing causes and today’s American working class has never been greater.
If we’ve learned anything from the torrid, often ill-informed debates about anti-Semitism over the last year—whether inside or outside our borders—it’s that the hatred of Jews comes in bewildering varieties.
Most Jews oppose capital punishment. Still, some crimes are so egregious that any other sentence will undermine the rule of law on which a civilized society depends.
Their claim to be the rightful inheritors of the land represents one of the most successful, if fiendish, propaganda achievements ever to have been pulled off—to have persuaded millions of people that this ludicrous falsehood is an unchallengeable truth.
Bret Stephens of “The New York Times” was mocked for complaining about being called a bedbug on Twitter. But holding journalists accountable is as important as civility.
Letting U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar enter would have sent the opposite message—that their desire to erase Israel isn’t beyond the pale, but merely a legitimate political disagreement. That’s why Israel had to bar them.
American Jews who are mad at Trump still think that the peace process and the quest for two states are a priority. Israeli voters are no longer listening—and for good reason.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had faith that Washington would be his key ally in any confrontation with the Islamic Republic. It was Trump, after all, who withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
While criticism is being leveled at the two ambassadors for Israel’s entry ban on pro-BDS congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, the envoys are targets because of the trust they have with their nation’s leaders. It is precisely those relationships that make them so effective.