Before Europe casts us off completely, perhaps we should separate first. It’s time, I maintain, to say goodbye. This week, on Yom Hashoa, a friend told me a story I had never heard—how her father as a young Jew in Libya during World War II was arrested by the Italians and later, after the Nazis…
In this segment, Ambassador Michael Oren outlines Israel’s skeptical stance regarding the recent leadership transition in Iran. He emphasizes that a change in faces does not necessarily signal a shift in the regime’s core ideology, noting that the influence of the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) might even result in a more hardline, “military junta”…
Prior to Wednesday at 3 a.m. the majority of Israelis supported a war they hoped would result in a fundamental alteration of their reality. The ceasefire seems to have smashed those hopes. This piece was published last Thursday in The Free Press. Since then, the challenges facing Israel have only multiplied. The American mainstream media,…
One view of the ceasefire spells strategic disaster, the other, hope. Whichever perspective, Israel must prepare for the ongoing confrontation with Iran and its proxies. There are two ways of looking at the missiles fired by Iran at Israel on Wednesday morning after the United States announced a ceasefire. One way spells strategic disaster for…
America’s national derangement poses almost insurmountable challenges to supporters of the Jewish state. For the past 50 years, in capacities both official and voluntary, before the American press, on campuses, and in a corpus of op-eds, I have spent most of my time defending the state of Israel. Though not always keen to justify…
Iran and the fifty-year parade of ignored evidence. On February 28, the United States and Israel struck Iran. Khamenei killed and soon replaced. Oil markets in crisis, Iranian missiles targeting NATO facilities, and yet European leaders are saying, “This is not our war.” We are watching this and asking, how does this end? To me,…
The segment discusses controversy surrounding Abdul El-Sayed after leaked audio revealed his cautious response to the reported death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. El-Sayed emphasized sensitivity toward communities in Dearborn who might be affected and avoided celebrating the death, while also questioning the legality and justification of unilateral international actions. In response, Michael Oren…
Unlike the Wise Son who acknowledges that Jewish law and Jewish life are complicated and approaches them as a Jew, the Wicked Son sets himself apart from his people and doesn’t really bother to ask. When, last January, he was accosted by pro-Palestinian protesters who accused him of being a “genocide denier,” a “liberal Zionist…
Despite the close partnership between Trump and Netanyahu and the truly historic cooperation between the U.S. armed forces and the IDF, America and Israel inhabit utterly different realities. In the classic 1970 film “Patton,” the famous World War II general visits the North African front where a senior British commander assures him that the Royal…
