The writer is managing senior fellow at the Jerusalem-based Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy. The views expressed here are his own. His diplomatic, defense, political, and Jewish world columns over the past 28 years are at davidmweinberg.com.
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Restraint and rethinking are necessary in the discourse about the hostage situation. Skeptics of deals with Hamas are not “war criminals.”
Settlements neither explain Palestinian unwillingness to make peace with Israel nor cause traffic jams in Tel Aviv. Stop using them as a thinly veiled smokescreen for anti-Israel sentiment.
Trumpian truth-telling about Iran, Syria & the Palestinians can improve the strategic environment, gut Palestinian strategy of delegitimizing Israel, and improve the tone of American foreign policy
Radical activists are threatening to burn down the edifice of Israel-Diaspora relations.
Israel should make it clear, both as a threat and as a policy principle to be put into action, that unilateral action (against Israel) will beget unilateral Israeli action in response.
More than the election’s vote was a victory for Donald J. Trump, it was a searing defeat for Barack Hussein Obama and his 8 years in office
Consider the situation in America compared to the situation in Israel on almost any foreign or domestic issue, and you’re forced to admit that, heck, Israel is in a better place
What’s truly infuriating and disappointing about the UNESCO vote is the deafening silence of significant Christian figures. specifically the leader of the Catholic world.
“Interesting” in my book means profound, provocative and positive. Here's my top 20 list of this year's "Interesting Jews"
Obama plans to dish out tough love to Israel while citing Peres as cover; brandishing Peres’ peace bequest as a battering ram
"After all, we must remember that God isn’t our ‘employee.’ He doesn't always do as we wish.”
Liberal pundits have coined a new saw: Sheldon Adelson and the newspaper he owns, Israel Hayom, are primarily responsible for the collapse of many Israeli media outlets, and this endangers Israeli democracy.



