While our attention is understandably focused on the renewed fighting in Gaza, we could easily overlook one of the most transformative moments in the Middle East. Share The president who ordered the liquidation of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s…
While deeply moving, President Trump’s recent meeting with former Hamas hostages was also depressing. Eight Israelis — unbowed, patriotic, and highly representative of our society as whole — told the president that their state had let them down. The only…
Is Israel ready for a large-scale aliyah? Does Israel still want it? These questions came to mind repeatedly during my visit to Australia last week while I was speaking with Jewish leaders. Australian Jewry is unique among Diaspora communities. Founded…
Fifteen years ago, the Obama administration pressured Israel to agree to a ten-month settlement freeze. The goal, the Americans told us, was to incentivize the Palestinian Authority to join peace talks. Our government responded that the freeze would not only…
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When Bibi collided with Obama in 2011, Rahm Emanuel pounded my chest and barked: ‘Your [expletive] prime minister cannot come into the [expletive] White House and [expletive] lecture the president!’ On May 20, 2011, inside the Oval Office…
Faced with the decision whether to support Washington’s new policy toward Ukraine, Israel must choose between our identity and our security. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) For the first time last week, before President Trump’s televised altercation with President Zelensky in the…
This article reminds us, agonizingly, how little has changed in Israel’s struggle with Hamas and its Iranian enablers. Present circumstances nevertheless offer us the opportunity to fundamentally change this brutal reality. While working tirelessly to return every last of our…
Following the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the killing of 2,400 Americans, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress and, via radio, the nation. “December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy,” he began and immediately declared war…
A diplomatic coup de main or more Trumpian madness? A strategic move like Trump’s threatened tariffs for Canada and Mexico—or a sincere proposal to take over a strip in the Middle East? Depending on who you ask, President Trump’s pronouncements on the…
