Column
When Tzipi Livni and her ilk try to promote the idea that Netanyahu is a greater danger to Israel than Islamist missiles and butcher knives covered in Jewish blood, most of us just sigh and yawn.
Both these appearances were cameo performances that served to highlight, in very different ways, the alarming trend now accelerating across the West: the breakdown of respect for the rule of law and democratic institutions.
Israel’s strategic position has changed dramatically during Netanyahu’s leadership. But that does not mean that the challenges Israel faces today are any less serious than in prior years.
Rashida Tlaib’s dual-loyalty smear demonstrates why American Jews, who are the real target of the BDS movement, need to speak up.
“New York Times” editor seeks not merely to distort the debate about anti-Semitism, but to resurrect a failed attempt to abandon Jewish peoplehood.
Hamas, which defines itself as the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, has engaged in mass terror for years; its parent organization in Cairo has not criticized its use of bus bombings against Israel or its unleashing of rocket attacks against civilian targets.
Even if we assume Iran is presently retreating, it’s not going to do so quietly. And once the United States is out of the way, it is quite conceivable that the surge of power that Tehran has enjoyed over the past decade will be reinvigorated.
Benny Gantz’s statements about retaining parts of the West Bank “forever” once again makes clear that most Israelis are united against far-reaching concessions.
The fact that terrorists have been treated to cushier conditions than other incarcerated criminals is beyond scandalous.
Edwin Samuel, British Foreign Office Spokesperson in the Middle East and North Africa, recently visited the illegal Arab outpost known as Khan al-Ahmar, where he declared that the British government “is conducting a campaign to save this village.”
Senatorial attacks on the Knights of Columbus should alarm Jews who care about religious freedom, but so far, crickets from the organized Jewish world.
Asking America to keep soldiers anywhere for Israel’s sake violates a sine qua non of both the Israeli ethos and the bilateral alliance—that Israel defends itself by itself.