יום ראשון, כ״ו אב תשפ״וSunday, August 9, 2026
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Mike Krampner, a retired American trial lawyer who also earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland, moved to Jerusalem in 2021, where he and his wife are surrounded by children and grandchildren. He spends his time there improving his Hebrew, reading history and traditional Jewish texts, and engaging with family.
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They are not engaged in the political argument of disproving the Palestinian narrative that falsely claims that there is no ancient connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel. Only fools and Jew-haters believe that deliberately dishonest claim.
Sharabi watched the people around him carefully. He tried to engage them, not by way of sympathizing with them but to make the best of the awful situation.
For buildings like ours, built in the early 1970s, there are no mamad, no individual reinforced safe rooms in each apartment. There is instead a communal bomb shelter in the back of the building on the first floor, a miklat, a place of refuge.
This ideology accuses countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, and Israel of an ongoing genocide. The adherents had to perform some intellectual contortions and prevarications to make that accusation.
Schwartz also skillfully shows the vicious similarities between the Arab massacres of Jews in Mandate Palestine in the 1920s and the Arab massacre of Jews in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
The failed experiment of Gaza, which could have been a prosperous little Palestinian state, but was instead made an armed camp for attacks on Israel proves the point.
We have also realized who we can trust and who our friends really are: despite its waffle-words, its incredibly poorly thought-out hostage-cease-fire plan and a temporary hold on some weapons, the Biden administration has done a relatively good job of supporting Israel.
Those numbers matter not only regarding the ability of Israel to raise the money and troops to fight in its defense, but also because Israel’s enemies do not ever have to work hard to obtain a majority in the United Nations and to vote along religious-ethnic lines.
Hamas will ask for a lot for the hostages. Hamas will rightly believe that there will be intense political pressure to rescue the captives at almost any price. Although we think that no price is too high for the return of Jewish hostages, there may be some prices that are too high.
August 7, 2026 
