This article originally appeared in the Times of Israel. This combo image shows US President Joe Biden, left, January 5, 2024; and Republican presidential candidate former US president Donald Trump, right, January 19, 2024. (AP Photo, File). Over the past six months, since shortly after October 7 and the new, alternative universe created by Hamas’s onslaught…
The Final Battle for the Holocaust In Gaza, Israel is not only fighting for our future, but also for our past. MICHAEL OREN APR 04, 2024 6 Share Along with destroying Hamas and reestablishing our security, the great unspoken objective of Israel in Gaza is restoring our self-proclaimed role as the keeper of the six…
While the primary focus remains on Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the specter of a full-scale conflict in northern Israel and southern Lebanon casts a long shadow on the people of the region and their hope for a peaceful future. Lebanon reported Israeli airstrike in northeastern Lebanon’s Baalbek. March 23,2024 (@manniefabian via X/Twitter) Subscribed The…
A shorter version of this article appeared in the Forward. A Jewish man walks through Jerusalem’s Old City. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images) “Outside the rain begins and it may never end.” So opens the Boz Scaggs hit of 1976, later recorded by Rita Coolidge and Frankie Valli. It concluded with the mournful refrain, “We’re all alone, we’re all alone.” I…
Hamas Has Reminded Us That We are a Nation, a Family – a Mishpacha I saw the confusion, I saw the fear, but also the unity and determination. Communities formerly at odds over ritual differences, have come together to advocate and demonstrate for Israel. MICHAEL OREN MAR 15, 2024 This article originally appeared in the…
“I think it’s fair to say that I am not a Zionist.” So proclaimed the renowned professor of Modern Arab History before a class of Princeton University undergraduates. The remark was accompanied by an ironic smirk signaling understatement. He was, in fact, rabidly anti-Zionist and made no attempt to hide it. At the department’s weekly…
With less than a year to go until the U.S. presidential election and the Middle East deep in crisis, the Biden administration has, almost coincidentally, decided to come up with a Middle East policy. JAY MENS FEB 29, 2024 36 11 5 Share With less than a year to go until the U.S. presidential…
This article originally appeared in Jewish Journal. (Abid Katib/Getty Images) Israelis may have been shocked by the recent IDF military intelligence report that Hamas will survive the war in Gaza. Leaked to the press in an apparent attempt to shame Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials, the internal report belies their repeated pledges to…
This article originally appeared in The Times of Israel. Every civilian death is a tragedy. Another country, struck by the type and immensity of the atrocities committed against Israel, would likely have responded with vastly greater force and inflicted far greater numbers of civilian casualties. But Israel is the Jewish State, not only in the way…
The Core Conflict and the Jews Linkage—the belief that the Israeli-Palestine conflict is the root of all Middle East instability—is not only factually wrong and deleterious to peace, it is fundamentally antisemitic. Shortly after entering office, in 2009, President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor, Lt. General Jim Jones made a startling pronouncement. “If God had…
