The Column
For decades, Israel’s leader has maintained that survival demands strength. After Oct. 7, that doctrine became a policy to reshape the region.
The great post-Megillah revolution of Jewish history is sovereignty.
United by their hostility to Israel, the liberal establishment, leftists and right-wing antisemites are hoping to capitalize on a disaster. But it could also backfire on them.
Tehran’s attacks on Arab states and Western interests are accelerating a regional alignment against it that it hoped to prevent.
Its repeated criticism of actions of self-defense—and now, its opposition to the elimination of a nuclear threat—raise real questions about its priorities.
Israeli losses mark the painful cost of a war intended to dismantle the most dangerous regime in the region.
More kicking the can down the road, appeasing Tehran’s nuclear program, missiles and its relentless quest for terror, is not an option. The reality is that the regime must go.
Sirens in Israel signal not panic but hope for a region no longer dominated by the Iranian regime’s imperial ambition.
President Trump’s State of the Union address and Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the Knesset were bolstered, not marred, by partisan tantrums.
In a time of surging antisemitism, celebrating the Olympic achievement and patriotism of Jack Hughes shouldn’t be sacrificed to partisan contempt for Trump or nationalism.
For French Jews, the largest of Western Europe’s Jewish communities, the threat posed by the extremes has always been palpable.