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Stephen M. Flatow is an attorney and the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995. He is author of A Father’s Story: My Fight for Justice Against Iranian Terror and is the president of the Religious Zionists of America-Mizrachi.
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Rav Shevach’s senseless murder will not change anything for Palestinian Arabs, who praised it, other than lead to more death; the terrorist who murdered him has already been found and, in the IDF’s lexicon, “neutralized.” The residents of the Balata refugee camp will continue to be “refugees” under the thumb of the PA with the help of the United Nations.
And who is paying for this Arab attempt to strangle Jerusalem and illegally occupy large parts of the historic Jewish homeland? “It’s funded mainly by the EU and Qatar,”
The wordsmiths at the US State Dept need to face reality in Judea-Samaria. The Israeli “occupation” of the portion where the Palestinian Arabs reside ended long ago, and the Israeli presence in the remainder of those territories is perfectly legitimate.
Considering Trump officials say it will take at least 3 years to move the embassy to Jerusalem; the State Dept. says there are no plans to list Jerusalem as Israel's capital and US citizens born in Jerusalem still have "Jerusalem" rather than "Israel" listed as their place of birth it seems only fair to ask: What, exactly, has changed?
America overwhelmingly opposes US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a new poll claims. Cause for concern? Not when you realize the poll was carried out by an anti-Israel professor who crafted the question so the results would be slanted in that direction.
Qatar, a government that sponsor murderers of Jews should not be rewarded. Meetings with Jewish officials, visits by Jews to Qatar, articles by Jews claiming that Qatar might be changing – are rewards Qatar does not deserve
In the wake of Thursday’s mob attack in Israel against 2 parents and a group of young Jewish children on a hike in the Shomron, it’s time to coin a new term: “WWJ,” walking while Jewish.
The Trumpadministration trotted out a new “interpretation”—actually, a misrepresentation—of the law: The PLO-PA can keep its office so long as the activities conducted there are “related to achieving a lasting, comprehensive peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.” What a joke.
After 6 1/2 years in a coma, terror victim Hodaya Asulin, succumbed to her injuries and died, practically forgotten. I reserve my strongest disappointment for my own community--how did we offer support? What effort did we make to keep her memory alive?
The real abuse that Betty McCollum and her Gang of Nine should be investigating is the constant effort by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to incite minors to engage to murder Jews.
Kerry’s harsh criticism of Israel and suggesting that Israel is an apartheid state are well known. By justifying Palestinian terrorism against Israel, Kerry now has crossed a red line.
Adalah doesn’t hide its agenda. It's openly and proudly against Israel. No, it’s the New Israel Fund that’s doing the hiding. Buried deep in the NIF brochure was a passing reference to Adalah as one of the NIF-supported “human rights organizations”
The Balfour Declaration affirmed the Jewish right to the Land of Israel. Yet lead conference speakers, Miller and Ross, have devoted much of their professional lives to undermining and restricting Israel’s rights to Jerusalem and Judea-Samaria.
The only reason Netanyahu is bringing up “new conditions” is because they are in fact "old promises" from agreements two decades old that were never kept by the PA
I am not suggesting that people who attack Israel should be deprived of their right to free speech. The question I am raising is whether mainstream Jewish community institutions should provide platforms for those who attack the Jewish state.
Norway and Belgium, in at least one important respect, have gone much further than the US in confronting the problem of Palestinian incitement against Israel--and they are not known for their love of Israel
The Makovsky Plan resurrects the old State Department approach of forcing Israel to do something that is virtually irreversible, while requiring the Palestinians to do something that is easily reversible.
Reading Shapiro’s admission, one must laugh at his self-description as “an advocate for Israel.” He is, according to his own words, an advocate for the Palestinians – and has been for the past 29 years.
Yes, Alisa’s education at a religious Day School was a paradigm shift for her mother and me and not everything was easy. Many times over the years I thought, “What have we gotten ourselves into?” But the rewards are many.
It's like a financial menu for rock throwers with different financial rewards for the severity of the crime. Your tax dollars at work.
All the professional peace processors and self-appointed Middle East “experts” don’t grasp the simple fact that an unassuming real estate developer-turned-presidential son-in-law understands:: the conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Israel has no solution.
Lesson #1 of the Halamish slaughter: This is how Palestinian Arabs behave when they have self-rule and kitchen knives. Imagine what they would do if they had a sovereign state and shoulder-launched missiles
The NY Times and the Washington Post believe that Israel’s polices are to blame for “provoking” Arab hostility and violence. If you have any doubts, just read their headlines.
Critics of Israel claim Israel’s security checkpoints “restrict” and “humiliate” Palestinian travelers. While that is open to debate there is one absolute fact: Checkpoints save lives.
I would have a lot more respect for diaspora Jewish leaders if, in addition to launching a “campaign” over prayer regulations at the Western Wall, they would also launch campaigns against the other issues confronting Israel as well
The Oslo accords failed and there is no peace between Israelis and Palestinians today because the Palestinian leadership never accepted Israel nor rejected terrorism. The Oslo accords were a sham
J Street’s “solution” to the Gaza“crisis”? Give more American taxpayers’ money to Gaza, promote the Palestinian Authority and PUSH for the implementation of the 2-State Solution, regardless of the consequences to Israel.
Reviving the Trilateral Committee on Incitement is no solution unless the committee begins its work with a clear definition of what constitutes "incitement."
I, prefer inconvenienced Palestinians to dead Jews any day of the week. The would-be murderer tried to get through the checkpoint byt the metal detector detected that he was carrying two pipe bombs.
In his summary of Israeli-Palestinian history Estrin didn't want to let inconvenient facts get in the way of a good anti-Israel story.
The same Palestinians whom Israel supposedly deprives of the right to vote freely cast ballots in a democratic election last week.
Advocates of the Palestinian cause like to pretend that all Palestinian terrorism these days is the work of “extremists” from Hamas, not “moderates” affiliated with Abbas. Like their leader Abbas, they lie
William Booth, the Washington Post’s longtime chief correspondent in Israel has discarded all pretense of objectivity and openly advocates for maintaining payments to the families of PA terrorists
Critics of Israel want there to be an “occupation” and to point an accusing finger at Israel. They are constitutionally incapable of blaming the Palestinians for anything, so they need Israel to blame
The entire Jewish left—are kidding themselves if they think that Jewish settlements that are out in the hills of Judea and Samaria are the obstacle to peace.
Gere was right – only not quite in the way he intended. It was in fact, a Jew attacked by an Arab mob. Sometimes, reality clashes with the fantasy world of Hollywood.
Jordan "has rejected" the US request for the extradition of Tamimi. So Jordan’s “pro-American” regime continues to shelter Tamimi. And the Trump administration acts as if it can't do anything about it other than issue gently worded press releases.
The U.S. gave Jordan $393 million in aid last year. Is that just a blank check? Or is it time, perhaps, to make some of that aid conditional on Jordan surrendering killers of Americans?
At the J Street national conference in Washington last week, Senator Sanders, one of the featured speakers, smeared Yitzhak Rabin’s memory and sacrifices, and demanded an end to the 'Occupation'
Why did major media blatantly ignore important comments made by Trump and Netanyahu? It would require acknowledging that the PA honors and pays terrorists, and raises Palestinian kids to be terrorists
Why do 5 prominent US universities continue to have professional relationships with Al Quds University, a school which honors and glorifies terrorists thereby encouraging acts of terrorism?
Fans of the late Yasir Arafat started a Facebook page called “Yasir’s Girls.” Its goal: Make Palestinian girls feel proud of these 'heroines' of Palestinian history, championing them as role-models.
Longtime State Dept. official Dennis Ross has a "NEW" plan for peace: Israel stops building “in 92% of the West Bank” in exchange for US help in opposing Palestinian efforts to delegitimize Israel
There’s a reason the “two state” proposal attracted the support of so few sitting US presidents: it’s a bad idea. A Palestinian state would pose a lethal danger to Israel and destabilize the region
The fact is that no Israeli government has established a single new settlement in more than twenty years.
Kerry and the Obama team won't acknowledge that Israel is the victim and the Palestinians are the aggressors nor recognize the difference between democratic Israel and the terror-promoting PA regime.
If a paper holds a pro-Palestinian agenda, they cease reporting the news, rather they promote an agenda. The NY Times and Washington Post are both guilty of this.
David Friedman, President-elect Trump's choice for ambassador to Israel, is completely unlike his predecessors. And that's what drives the critics of Israel crazy.
I've got news for the world: Israel doesn't 'ocupy' the Palestinians. With one of the world's largest per-capita security forces, the Palestinian Authority are the ones who "occupy" the Palestinians.
At least 141 US citizens have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists since the 1960s. Yet the US has never asked the PA to extradite even a single terrorists for prosecution.
Jimmy Carter has made a post-presidential career out of lying about Israel. The latest pile of lies is a doozy of an op-ed in the New York Times
For some reason, the US government's special envoy for combating Anti-Semitism does not seem to exhibit a sense of urgency in his response to Palestinian desecrations of Jewish holy sites.
Before anyone concludes only "right-wingers" oppose the Paris conference, it's worth recalling that one of the most outspoken critics of the conference idea was the hero of the "Left," Yitzhak Rabin.
J Street's mission has been to bring about creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel. Israelis believe it would be a brutal totalitarian state, the kind that often invades neighboring countries.
Imagine if the US named a school after a terrorist? Unthinkable, but the PA did and insisted on making a big public show of the fact that it is naming a school after a murderer of Americans.
Have you noticed that Israel has barely been mentioned in the current presidential campaign? Here are ten questions that I think the candidates need to address.
The Hamas bombing in Jerusalem which killed four, is remembered by residents of San Francisco because it shattered one of the city’s most prominent Jewish families.
With the Obama administration handing over $400 million to the Iranian government it has turned its back on American victims of Iranian terrorism.
If 34 years after "peace." an Egyptian athlete still won't shake hands with an Israeli, what does that portend for peace with the Palestinians, whose society is drenched in hatred of Israel and Jews?
To paraphrase West with a slight twist: Ain't no doubt in my mind: one day, brother, the Palestinians will be free of the cruel totalitarian Palestinian regimes that occupy and oppress them.
For many years, Palestinian cause supporters, especially in the media, have pushed the idea that poverty causes terrorism. Attributing terrorism to poverty offers an easy and incorrect excuse.
As the father of a victim, it’s not the mention of the terrorist group that re-victimizes me and my family. It’s the refusal of the Obama administration to say "radical Islamic terrorism,"
A Palestinian terrorist convicted of murdering a Christian clergyman has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize – by one of the world's most prominent Christian clergymen
The Democrats have just chosen American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee director James Zogby, one of the most vocal defenders of a notorious Palestinian terrorist, to help write their platform.
The recent poll revealed that 59% of Palestinians believe that it is the Palestinian leadership, not Israel, which is to blame for their worsened situation
Today (10 Nissan – April 18) is the 21st yahrzeit of my daughter Alisa Flatow, Hy”d. I’d like to share with readers of The Jewish Press some personal reflections on the events of 1995 and what has happened since.
The greatest enemy Hadid's lies is YouTube. Interested readers can go look at the Hebron videos and see the truth
Abbas 'slaps' Obama's VP in the face, and Netanyahu's the one whom Obama finds "Most Disappointing"?
US Justice Dept should request-NOW-that Israel extradite the killer of Richard Lakin to US for trial
Palestinian terrorists have murdered 64 Americans in Israel since '93 Oslo accords-0 US prosecutions
NY Times could host a reality show: "Finding Palestinian Anger" But it would grow predictable fast
US State Dept has became expert in excusing PA’s non-compliance on extraditing criminals to Israel
Had the memorial taken place where Ezra was murdered, U.S. diplomats would have boycotted the event.
There are concrete actions American Jews can take in response to the Henkin murders.
According to the NY Times, independent, self-hurling rocks were responsible for Levlovich "dying"
The purpose of an attack on Joseph’s Tomb is to murder Jews at prayer and destroy a Jewish holy site
Palestinian society treats mass murderers as heroes & is led by a president who embraces terrorists
It’s March, that means PA will be honoring gruesome Palestinian massacres of Israelis & Americans
It's time for a new Jewish policy regarding Ramallah, NOT just because of the yarmulke incident
The White House spokesman went out of his way to avoid acknowledging that the killers were Muslims.
American Jews can take political action making a difference battling Palestinian terrorism.
I know a little something about human rights violations – such as the violation of my daughter Alisa’s right to live.
June 26, 2026 
