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Martin Oliner is chairman of the Religious Zionists of America, president of the Culture for Peace Institute, and a committee member of the Jewish Agency. He currently serves as a member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council, appointed by former US president Donald Trump. The views expressed here are his own. Martinoliner@gmail.com.
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Thankfully, the U.S. ambassador to Israel is a closer friend to the Jewish state than anyone who has ever been in the very sensitive role. Mike Huckabee recently told a delegation of more than 200 American lawmakers that Israel is akin to the “wife” of the United States.
Thankfully, the U.S. ambassador to Israel is a closer friend to the Jewish state than anyone who has ever been in the very sensitive role. Mike Huckabee recently told a delegation of more than 200 American lawmakers that Israel is akin to the “wife” of the United States.
I have known Mike Huckabee for many years and consider him a friend. In fact, I consider him to be a friend of the Jewish people as a whole and the Jewish state. He is an ohev Yisrael, a man who loves the land, people, and State of Israel.
With international support, Trump will succeed.
I am not here to defend or condemn the actions of those who entered the Capitol four years ago. But even if I did, it would not be a problem, because I am an individual and not a legacy organization of the Jewish people.
In his first term, Trump announced an executive order that was to deny federal funding to colleges and universities that do not sufficiently combat discrimination against Jews. The order clarified that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, and therefore the hatred of Israel is hatred of Jews. But Biden and Emhoff did not take steps to ensure its implementation.
Even the feckless Palestinian Authority has finally taken steps to restore order and crack down on Hamas and other rebel groups in Jenin and other cities. The PA knows it will be held up to a higher standard by Trump, and it better get on his good side before he comes back to power.
Sorry, Joe, but it is too late. Achieving Middle East peace in your last two months in office is not realistic. It would be better for you to just get some rest.
Biden was supposed to be different. Pundits are calling him the Democratic Party's last unabashedly Zionist president.
While confused American Jews continue to vote overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates, in Israel it is the opposite. Israelis know what Trump did for them as president, and they greatly appreciate it.
Any agreement would require Hezbollah to keep its commitments under UN Resolution 1701 to disarm completely and leave the area south of the Litani River, and no one believes that after 18 years they will suddenly honor their commitments.
Don’t threaten us with cutting off aid to give up our principles, Begin said. I’m not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history...
If anyone is making Israel into a pariah, it is not Netanyahu, but Schumer.
Since Israel unwisely withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the only things that have not flown over the fence into Israel are doves of peace.
Both sides need to decide on their own now that there will be no more victories of one side over the other and that from now on, key decisions on the country's future will have to be made by consensus.
The Netanyahu government turns a blind eye to the shipments of dollars from Doha to Hamas in Gaza. The time has come for Netanyahu to stop the arrival of these suitcases full of protection money supporting terror.
Smotrich is a man of integrity, truth and consistency. That cannot be taken for granted nowadays, after other religious Zionists in politics misled right-wing voters.
Biden wants his campaign promise on the matter to be fulfilled at all costs, to the point that he could potentially make such a move unilaterally and illegally, against Israel's will.
He saw life as a gift, and he felt he clearly had a duty and responsibility to rebuild what was lost in Europe.
In a fitting culmination to 5778, a year when Israel's Jewish Nation-State Law caused a greater uproar than any Israeli law has in years, a group of seven Arab Knesset members visited the European Union in Brussels over the past week for meetings with top European officials. They met with the ambassadors to the EU […]
He brought to attention worse legislation in Denmark and said the international community should reserve its outrage for Syria torturing hundreds of people to death.
In a world where promises are uttered with no intention of ever being kept, and thrown out without a second thought, seeing promises implemented nowadays is a breath of fresh air.
It will now be up to Pompeo and Bolton to keep Bin Salman in line and influence President Trump to make the right decisions on Iran.
Contrary to how Trump’s announcement has been portrayed in the international media, I believe it will advance the cause of peace and the international effort against terror.
The PA distributed some $300 million to the families of terrorists in 2016, coincidentally the same sum the US annually provides the PA.
To honor his commitment that he made throughout his campaign to move America's embassy from Tel Aviv to the capital, President Donald Trump does not have to do anything at all. He just has to let June 1 arrive without signing another waiver.
The perception of close ties between Israel and the US--Netanyahu and Trump--have helped Netanyahu improve his relations with Europe and Asia, and in time more regions of the world
It can be argued that anti Semites perceived Obama’s policies as supportive of their own views.
Somehow, wishing another the blessing of Sabbath peace from on-high, while offering the very real human gifts of joy and friendship as reflected in a smile, combines the essence of Jerusalem, and what makes it so special.
The current “knife intifada” has, since September, resulted in the murder of 30 innocent Israelis as well as injury to another 352.
Vying for dominance in the WZO election, are movements within our nation which seek to undermine and subvert Orthodox Judaism.
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