Column
A few unelected individuals have been given the power—or even worse, in the case of countries that didn’t join the court, have seized it—to criminalize decisions made by democratically elected national governments.
Nikki Haley’s all-too-brief tenure illustrates that standing up for America and Israel isn’t a formula for diplomatic failure.
Jewish organizations’ stands on partisan issues reflect their supporters’ biases, but not necessarily the interests of the Jews.
There may be no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in our generation; not all international conflicts have one. But certainly whittling Israel down to nine miles wide is not the answer.
Yahya Sinwar is a man who has literally killed with his own hands those he suspected of being collaborators with Israel, and who is quoted as saying “we will tear out Israeli hearts from their bodies.”
While Americans are fighting a culture war with no middle ground left, Iran and ISIS remind us of the real enemy of gender equality.
Every so often in the media, a report appears suggesting that Hamas might be willing to recognize Israel or denounce violence so as to discuss the establishment of a Palestinian state. But it never does.
Retired Israeli generals deserve respect from Americans. But their efforts to undermine the country’s political consensus do not deserve our applause.
Israel is falsely accused of crimes such as murderous aggression, colonialism and occupation of which it is not only innocent, but is in fact the victim or target. Those who call out such lies are themselves denounced as being beyond the pale for doing so.
The IAEA’s failure to inspect all Iranian nuclear sites, including the one just unveiled by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, illustrates the limitations of international institutions.
The president championed “patriotism” over “globalism” at the United Nations. Is that good for the Jews or freedom?
Abbas’s speech to the U.N. confirmed that the P.A. and the PLO are returning to their old game of undermining Israel’s legitimacy at every turn. Netanyahu’s speech demonstrated that while Israel is aware of the Palestinian retreat into maximalism, there are bigger problems that his country is facing