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Lawrence Solomon

Lawrence Solomon is a columnist for Canada’s National Post, the author of seven books and a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research.

Damage to a building in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona after months of rocket, missile and drone attacks by Hezbollah in Lebanon, July 24, 2022. Credit: Israeli Police.

Moody’s should have raised, not lowered, Israel’s credit rating

Its rationale for downgrading Israel could have been written by the U.S. State Department or “CNN” pundits.

Lawrence Solomon

Oct. 28, 2024

The SPYDER system, produced by RAFAEL, is among the many defensive arms that nations around the world are purchasing from Israeli companies. Credit: Courtesy of RAFAEL.

Israel is an armory of democracy

No other country devotes as large a share of its resources to the protection of countries threatened by belligerents and tyrannies.

Lawrence Solomon

Sept. 11, 2024

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon is positioned on the flight line at an undisclosed location on April 13, 2024. Source: U.S. Air Force.

Israel should stop subsidizing the US military

Israel and the United States would both benefit from a transactional relationship.

Lawrence Solomon

July 25, 2024

Modern-day reconstruction of Jerusalem during the 10th century BCE from the City of David, part of the Jerusalem Walls National Park. Credit: Yoni Shifrah via Wikimedia Commons.

The Jews are indigenous to Israel, the Arabs are the colonists

The modern myth that Arabs are indigenous to "Palestine" stems from a Roman invasion 2,000 years ago and the Islamic belief that Jesus was a Muslim.

Lawrence Solomon

July 16, 2024

A poster of deceased Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qassem Soleimani is seen on the roadside in Nabatieh, Lebanon on June 27, 2024. Credit: Chris McGrath/Getty Images.

The pointlessness of pursuing a two-state solution

Iran will never allow the Palestinians to negotiate peace with Israel.

Lawrence Solomon

July 2, 2024

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 17, 2023. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Did Hamas succeed too well?

The extent of the terror group’s slaughter threatens Iran’s nuclear weapons program and Iran itself.

Lawrence Solomon

Oct. 17, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden with Israeli President Isaac Herzog during a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The US is losing Israel

Israel might reassess the value of being tied too closely to an unreliable and often fickle ally.

Lawrence Solomon

July 19, 2023

Druze protest against the construction of a new wind farm in the Druze village of Mas'ada in the Golan Heights, June 21, 2023. Photo: Ayal Margolin/Flash90

The Druze or the Paris Agreement?

Does Israel have a greater responsibility to “the international community” than to its own Druze population?

Lawrence Solomon

June 29, 2023

The Grand Rabbi of Lelov (a Hasidic dynasty) and his followers light a bonfire at the end of Shabbat in Meron, near Safed, on June 3, 2023. Photo: David Cohen/Flash90

Do the haredim really milk the Israeli treasury?

The Israeli left takes its own entitlements for granted while exaggerating the subsidies the haredim receive.

Lawrence Solomon

June 6, 2023