Hamas remains the dominant power in Palestinians’ minds
Israel Must Act Now or Risk Being Bled to Death by Its Enemies
The mufti urged the Arabs to “Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion."
But it is of no concern to Foggy Bottom
The media hasn’t stopped lying to us. It’s only begun to lie.
Laws in the first category can never change; whereas these laws were declared in definitive form by G-d, they are set in stone. By contrast, laws derived by use of the hermeneutic principles can technically change over time.
While all men are created equal, as the American Declaration of Independence put it, based upon the biblical, Judeo-Christian origins of the American Revolution, it is not possible to achieve equality without violence.
It is not incidental that the ultimate halachic mystery of parah adumah addresses death and the tumah caused by contact with dead people. Death is the ultimate mystery.
The Palestinian Conference for Palestinians Abroad claims to represent 6-7 million Palestinians in over 50 countries, and opposes the PLO and Palestinian Authority.
From the beginning, the case was treated by most legal commentators as a transparently political hit job. For one thing, combining a business records law with an election law in order to come up with a basis for a prosecution was as novel an approach as you can find.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Western intersectionality makes it impossible for the victims of Islamic oppression in the Middle East and Africa to have their voices heard.
To make a connection between seemingly disparate things is to enter, if only briefly, a world beyond rationality. And in our quest to return as soon as possible to what is rational, we often become dismissive of making those connections.
The announcement of new Jewish housing in the West Bank introduces a new element into the current mix. It declares to Hamas that they and their fellow Palestinians do not have the luxury of sitting back and relying on President Biden to have their backs.
As far as Israel is concerned, the new president reaffirmed Iran’s anti-Israel stance saying that “resistance movements across the region will not allow Israel’s criminal policies towards the Palestinians and other nations in the region to continue.”
By BESA CENTER
To realize its achievements, Israel needs a pause of a few years during which the strategy and military power for an offensive will be formulated.
U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East seems unaware of how U.S. power should be deployed to decrease the chances of war and to support U.S. allies.
today’s existential crisis in Israel and in diaspora communities will not disappear or dissipate by themselves. It will take time, and the will of HaShem.
Wolf’s interview is a wake-up call for American Jews. Something is missing in Jewish/Zionist education when Wolf and those like her can so easily turn their backs on their people and heritage.
The critical point is that Israel is fighting to safeguard not just its own nation, but the West and the Free World as well. The battle at the moment seems between preserving freedom or having it extinguished by the forces of barbarism, autocracies, and theocrats, but most of all by the passivity of the West
Can Israel Afford NOT to Defy State Dept Pressure?
I have a term I use to describe this fundamental insight: “Am Levadad” – two words lifted from a Biblical verse (Numbers 23:9) that can be translated as “a singular nation”.
The Oriental Service station featured antisemitic propaganda cleverly mixed with Arab music and passages from the Koran, all supervised by the mufti.
The terrorist Carlos the Jackal was an early adopter.
If many French Jews are backing Marine Le Pen and National Rally, it’s because the alternatives are an antisemitic left and a center that can’t or won’t defend them.
If we accept the reality that antisemitism can’t really be eradicated, and if we accept the idea that hatred of Jews is really resistance to the messages we bring, I think there’s only one thing we can do...
By Sara Lehmann
Israel supporters and Jews in general are facing an impossible uphill battle in the online world of post-October 7th.
By Mark Rienzi
While these episodes may sound straight out of 1930s Germany, I made clear to the members of Congress that they weren’t. These are real events that occurred at UCLA over the past nine months – events that have precipitated a federal lawsuit against the university where my law firm represents several students.
The general antisemitic, hostile environment turned to focus on me directly because I am a Jew, Dafna Golden told the subcommittee.
No, my father said, already shocked at the low amount (which included the aufruf meal), I want to pay for the whole thing. (He assumed Yaakov’s father was asking for half.) My father-in-law said, That IS the whole thing.
By BESA CENTER
five alternatives for the future of Gaza. Israel’s long-term strategy to ensure its continued existence entails the accomplishment of these goals: destruction of Hamas’s military capabilities, abolition of Hamas control in Gaza, and the preservation of good relations with the United States.
Watching Pres. Biden debate former Pres. Trump was a master class in American mediocrity.
By Ben Shapiro
Biden went out and demonstrated that he belongs in an old age home. He confirmed what we all knew, live. For 90 minutes.
It turns out, it was all a big lie. There was no famine, there is no famine and Israel has not been using hunger as a "weapon of war."
With Hashem’s help, victory – a complete, decisive, and overwhelming victory over all our enemies – is not only obtainable but is critical for the future of the Jewish people, both here in Israel and around the world.
President Biden has much to address in the run up to November 5. But if he is replaced because of his infirmities, does he take all that baggage with him, allowing the new designee to skate on the aforementioned issues?
According to the Court’s opinion, the case must now go back to the lower courts to flesh out how the language will be applied so it is premature to wax eloquent at this point about how the language will be applied.
Bowman also reportedly spread talking points provided by the Hamas-led Gaza Ministry of Health but denied or ignored the trauma endured by Israelis.
Has a president who is, at best, a part-time leader or at worst, no longer capable of facing the enormous challenges of the presidency, played a role in exacerbating these problems?
“I don’t know why it took the police so long to arrest them.”
Israel faces an existential battle and the West sleeps on.
By Ruthie Blum
The quiet release of Shifa Hospital director Mohammed Abu Salmiya to Gaza is a travesty that must not go unpunished.
The Oriental Service station featured antisemitic propaganda cleverly mixed with Arab music and passages from the Koran, all supervised by the mufti.
I was not surprised by the great American feminist silence after Oct. 7.
You can’t debate if you can’t think. Biden can talk, but he can’t think.
The Biden administration, sadly, seems to have been the enabling factor in Iran's continued regional assertiveness and nuclear advancement.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
An alliance comprising the Left, Greens, Centre-Right establishment, and mainstream media in Europe has successfully silenced debate on issues for years
The 2024 presidential race has always hinged on who it’s about.
At the end of his advanced training the army wanted him for an officers course. He declined because he didn’t want to extend his time in the army. He wanted to go back to the beit midrash.
By Zionist Organization of America
The pattern of this new policy against heroes who have served their country honorably, combined with the slow walking of needed munitions while Israel is at war, is beyond despicable
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.
Did my father really know Willie Mays? Maybe. They had a few things in common other than dressing well.
We were encouraged as well by a decision handed down by the Supreme Court last Thursday which suggests that the standards for proving retaliatory action by an official appearing to merely be doing his or her duty are in the process of being scaled downward.
It’s like the media [are] bending over backwards to be politically correct.
After a short pause for the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah is now back to launching rockets and drones at targets on the Israeli side of the border on a daily basis.
WH must accept that Palestinian Arab leaders are engaged in “a zero-sum game” in which Israel has no right to exist
The Jewish people too must demand our celebrities speak up and if not pay the price from our community.
By BESA CENTER
It is essential to conduct a far-reaching discussion on all these alternatives and to avoid attachment to any one of them
By Nadav Shragai / Israel Hayom
This movement preserves the last shred of honor for two nations tragically complicit in empowering a ruthless enemy in wartime.
The administration demands Jerusalem implement a policy of backing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Why Hamas Supporters are Libeling Israeli Dogs
The Left is driving itself off a cliff
When there are no Jews to blame, evidently, crimes against humanity, genocide and human rights abuses are perfectly acceptable.
By Daniel Pipes
Palestinians, in other words, are not an aboriginal, autochthonous, first, indigenous, or native people; most of them are as recently arrived as Zionists. They are also as ethnically diverse.
By Ben Cohen
The act of misogyny is a grotesque means for men to remind women of their physical power. It’s also an act of dehumanization, like it was on Oct. 7.
Bibi broke protocol by calling out the Biden administration for slow-walking arms shipments. Washington’s real goal, however, is appeasing Iran and toppling him.
Jew-hatred, is a welcoming, diverse and inclusive sort of evil. Its very inclusivity helps to make it particularly popular in woke circles. People will find fellow Jew-haters from every conceivable background and class.
Asking Israel to do nothing against Hamas and Hezbollah after eight months of escalating aggression is akin to asking the United States, after the 9/11 attacks, to leave Al Qaeda untouched and allow it to remain in power.
Israel has made eliminating the threat from the Gaza-based militant group a central war aim, but it’s not entirely clear at what point that condition will be met.
Prolonged cultural dizziness doesn’t often end well. WWI completely washed away the existing world order, obliterating empires and redrawing the maps of Europe.
As genetic testing is used more widely to diagnose rare diseases, the awareness of shared genetic variants among Jews and Arabs is increasing among physicians.
By Bassam Tawil
The October 7 atrocities serve as a reminder that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not about improving the living conditions of the Palestinians or strengthening their economy. Instead, the conflict is about the desire of the majority of Palestinians to slaughter Jews and destroy Israel.
When we refuse to acknowledge our opponents’ moral right to make an argument, they almost always self-destruct.
In these divisive and highly partisan times, with hateful anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric on the rise in the halls of government and misbegotten values on the ascendancy, it is more important than ever that members of our community come out and vote.
The revival of anti-masking laws is necessary to curb the post-Oct. 7 surge in antisemitism. But will Democratic-controlled legislatures pass them?
Hamas boasting to their fellow Palestinians about what they did to Jews while the Nazis tried to hide what they did from fellow Germans means there is not only a moral difference between Hamas and the Nazis
So Why Is the Left So in Love with It?
By Hillel Fuld
Last night, Aviel, my 17 year old, called me to tell me the heart-wrenching news. “Eli Moshe has died.”
By Guy Millière
"Israel implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any nation in history," wrote John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point.
By Moshe Dann
“Free Palestine”= Destroying Israel and committing genocide.
"No one has an idea" of how many hostages in Gaza are alive, a Hamas official said.
By what legal right are Arabs permitted to live in Gaza and Judea and Samaria, but the Jews are restricted to only certain portions of these areas?
Apart from any dangers, the political choices they face are likely to make for an uncomfortable ride.
According to my father’s rebbe, Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik, koach and gevurah are not the same entity at all. Koach means physical strength, while gevurah means heroism or inner strength, a specific form of self-control.
As traumatizing as it had been, we had to experience slavery if we were to work to abolish it later on, when we were no longer the ones enslaved. We had to know what it was like to live under oppression, if we were to fight for justice in the years ahead.
Why would President Biden now be amenable to a change in attitude? Why would he be at long last ready to acknowledge that civilian casualties are an unfortunate but unavoidable feature of war as Israel claimed all along?
What explains President Joe Biden’s anti-Israel actions since Oct. 7? Painfully, the facts require that we recognize that it’s Biden’s longstanding animus toward the Jewish State.
By Avi Kahn
Our intended goal was to get some much-needed closure – closure for wounds that were still open and bleeding. But more than that, we wanted to give
stop cutting deals with the terrorists.
The French Foreign Ministry advanced two claims as the rationale for its decision to support the ICC—both equally risible and ridiculous
By Guest Author
Jews are constantly bending over backward and rationalizing. The opposition doesn’t rationalize. They want Jews dead.