יום רביעי, ה׳ תשרי תשפ״זWednesday, September 16, 2026
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The exclusion of Palestinians who do not meet the criteria depends, of course, on enforcement by DHS, which does not necessarily inspire confidence.
As we have been suggesting for some time, the so-called two-state solution seems higher on the Biden agenda than that of various Gulf Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, who recognize the Iranian threat implicit in a Palestinian state.
They fail to understand a traumatized nation facing genocidal foes—one that is united behind a war whose aim is the preservation of their very existence.
For a culture which discourages ostentation and flashiness, the attire of the kohen gadol seems aberrant. His glittering clothing clashes with our overall inclination to dress quietly and discreetly.
Those of us who wake up to see our children every day cannot fathom the reality people like Rachel and Jon have been subjected to.
In this Trump case the valuations he offered were just that, offers, and made in the context of industry-wide practice that lenders always do their own due diligence in verification of what they understand to be subjective presentations.
One of the many distressing aspects of the campaign to criminalize Israeli civilians is that it’s apparently the first target. The next one? The IDF.
Egyptians identify with the Pharaohs and Syrians and Lebanese with the Phoenicians, so the Palestinian Arabs decided to claim to be part of the Jebusites, an extinct tribe who lived in Jerusalem before being conquered by the Jews.
It would be a mistake to ignore the simmering tensions in the area south of Jerusalem.
Inside Gaza, allegiance to Hamas turns to scorn.
[T]he reports about military reservists threatening not to report for duty created the impression among Iran's mullahs and their terror proxies that the Israeli security establishment had been seriously undermined and was on the verge of collapse.
Instead of a statue of Queen Elizabeth, Trafalgar Square will feature "transgender sex workers"
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Will this be the spark that Gen Z needs to be more open-minded? Did we connect with the right feelings to inspire action?
Those who helped were few and far between
Nearly a century after Winston Churchill’s surrender of Palestinian land to the King of Transjordan, the boundaries of the Jewish state remain a continuing source of contention.
The leaders of Hamas in Gaza, including Sinwar, are currently evading capture, possibly seeking refuge in the Rafah area. It is imperative for the IDF to promptly take control of Rafah to locate him.
In both Britain and America, politics is becoming increasingly distorted.
By Bassam Tawil
One cannot understand why the foreign media is turning a blind eye to the critical voices coming out from the Gaza Strip and Palestinians and Arabs living outside the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave.
Is history written by the victors?
As part of a campaign to discredit Magram and push him out of the Air National Guard, Beevers allegedly coached a witness who claimed that Magram used subordinates for personal errands.
By David Nabhan
Pretending and hoping, however, that sooner or later the Gazans would come to their senses, look to their children’s futures, put down their slingshots, cease and desist with the tunnel digging, and take advantage of their astoundingly fortuitous location astride the Mediterranean Sea, was a colossal failure.
For reasons that are far beyond our comprehension, G-d wants to be in this world with humanity and wants us to be His partners.
Our common struggle for survival dwarfed every petty difference which, in the past, divided us.
In fact, Republicans even rejected a Biden administration proposal for funding for a border crackdown because they said it didn’t go far enough.
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
Unless we retain control of Gaza, we may have won the battle but did we win the war?
One would think that academic leaders would take proactive measures to combat antisemitic behavior and protect Jewish students, given these alarming numbers, but many have done the opposite.
I walk the freshly showered streets of Beit Shemesh and I think of spring. I think of spring in Jerusalem where I lived for 62 years. I think of you, Adar, when joy will increase; when this war, Iron Swords, will be over; when I hope something new will be ready to debut.
By Ayoob Kara
“Iran is acting against Azerbaijan on multiple fronts, with the IRGC’s Quds Force transferring weapons and military equipment to Armenia.”
By Ariel Kahana
Among the many challenges facing Israeli leaders, there is no choice but to go to battle over Biden's Executive Order targeting individual Israelis with sanctions.
I have written here before about Facebook’s abysmal and ongoing inaction over antisemitic content on its site. Much worse; since October 7, has been its Fact Checkers interventions to quell and stifle posts supportive of Israel or condemning Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
All that glitters is not gold, and what might appear to be a good way forward on paper is far from providing even an adequate solution to the deeply entrenched, fundamental problems.
To the contrary, what Mr. Hur did say was that Mr. Biden had willfully retained and shared classified material implicating sensitive intelligence sources and methods.
Western appeasement of Shiite, Sunni and Palestinian terrorism has ignored the well-documented fact, that terrorists bite the hands that feed them,
Dealing with the Middle East today isn't as easy as it was even a decade ago
"A military operation now in that area cannot proceed."
"On the second floor, Louis and Fernando were held by armed Hamas terrorists"
By Justin Amler
UNRWA was tasked to look after the needs of Arabs displaced by the conflict... instead, it became twisted into a mechanism for continuing the Arab war on Israel.
This is not the first time the ICRC ignored the plight of Jewish victims. During the Holocaust, the ICRC did nothing to help any of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and instead wrote a "favorable report of the good treatment of Jews in German camps."
While the current coalition is far from unblemished, things could be worse—and have been, recently.
Secretary of State Blinken's call for “a concrete, time-bound and irreversible path” to a Palestinian state presents serious dangers to Israel and to Palestinians as well.
Soros has invested millions of dollars in the “defund the police,” movement, “social justice” projects and Left-wing grassroots organizations advocating for environmentalism, gun control, court-packing, legalizing drugs and abortion.
Instead of regarding Iran as the mortal enemy not just of Israel, but of America and the civilized world, the Biden administration is treating it as an asset that must be protected.
Should Soros and allies be arrested for failing to register as foreign agents?
By Irit Tratt
Visiting Israel and engaging with its citizens is integral to nurturing the affection and enhancing relations between the two cultures.
It's “shocking" that a U.S. administration would push for a Palestinian state under ordinary circumstances, let alone after Oct. 7, said former U.S. Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt.
In the theatre of the absurd, commonly known as the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the judges are again preparing to ignore history, facts, and the fundamental truth. Having weaponized the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against the Jewish state, the judges are now preparing to hear oral arguments […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
For the first time since the founding of the experiment in Jewish nationalism, the events that have unfolded in Israel raise questions about the “Zionist dream.”
Meanwhile, the NFL continues to paint "anti-racist" slogans in end zones and play the "black national anthem" before important games.
It’s very poetic because her whole journey started when she had an Israeli boyfriend in Montreal, who had come to Canada to avoid serving in the army. Up until meeting him, she had had no contact with Jews.
What is one of the major signs we need to be aware of in ascertaining the danger of antisemitism? ...it is when we should determine whether antisemitism has becomes a mass movement.
By Avi Ciment
I can honestly and regrettably say that up until I graduated high school, every conversation I had with rabbis always involved my grades, or rather my lack of them. I can’t recall any exchanges that endeared me to Torah observance.
It would behoove President Biden to reconsider and get in step with Israel, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states and kick the Palestinian can up the road.
By Chaim Silberstein and Rabbi Steven Pruzansky
Today, UNRWA maintains extensive office facilities in Jerusalem, including its local headquarters as well as the UNRWA Microfinance Department on Shlomo Zalman Shragai Street between Ramat Eshkol and Maalot Dafna, even as UNWRA does not recognize this area as Israeli Jerusalem.
It was bad enough when bail reform sent the message to our home-grown wrong-doers that New York’s justice system is of the turnstile variety. It is a worse still message when prosecutors look for ways to avoid bail even when it is authorized by law.
“Whose army is this?” ask Samaria residents, after the IDF rehearses a scenario in which Israeli Jews abduct an Arab from a nearby village.
Binance is alleged to have held itself out as having certain controls in place, while allowing high value traders to circumvent those controls.
Jewish community relations councils often avoid challenging the anti-Zionist and antisemitic ethnic studies curricula that are increasingly being adopted around the nation.
In Kamala’s Jihad, I noted her long history of collaborating with Islamists and her pressure campaign on Biden to take more of an anti-Israel stance. After the Islamic mass murders of over 1,000 Israelis, Kamala returned to pushing “Islamophobia”. In the speech that he delivered three days after the massacres, she urged Biden to include […]
Throughout the Diaspora, Jews are facing the darkest days since the Holocaust. There are serious and real issues facing American Jews.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
25% of those under 45 agreed that kidnapped Israelis were treated kindly.
Culpable Ignorance and the Devil's Spreadsheet
Their unhinged obsession with the “two-state solution” threatens to incentivize Hamas.
The common thread weaving Hamas, Hezbollah and the Shia militias together is the significant funding and support each receives from Iran, which has in turn received it from the Obama and Biden administrations.
"I wish there was as much concern for the victims and survivors of senseless violence in the city"
US eagerness to conclude various agreements has brought the opposite of intended results
By Bassam Tawil
The PA, in its current location in the West Bank, does nothing to stop Hamas and other terrorists from pursuing their activities to murder Jews and obliterate Israel. There is no evidence to assume that it would behave any differently in Gaza.
Netanyahu is trying to defeat Hamas. The administration’s efforts—and its fictional “doctrine”—seek to depose the Israeli prime minister and re-elect the president.
Sometimes, the very thing we want so badly is the same thing we are completely terrified of. We have to learn to hold these two emotions inside, and embrace the journey.
While the depth of a future buffer zone remains unclear, a kilometer appears to be one realistic option for defending the border communities—a kilometer into Gaza in which Israel will have a complete picture of what is occurring overground and underground.
My ennui worsened after October 7. At the time we were learning Koheles, and all I could think about over and over and over again was that indeed everything was futile, everything was hevel, everything was nothing.
By Guest Author
Almost four months following what is arguably the State of Israel’s greatest intelligence and security failure in its history, its citizens are more divided than ever.
By Adam Kredo
Rumored plan to create Palestinian state sets up fresh showdown between Biden and Republicans in Congress
The International Court of Justice in The Hague tried hard to oblige Israel to end the war and withdraw its forces from Gaza, but even after defaming the Jewish State in the first 35 minutes of the decision, in the end the decision failed. During the opening, the president of the International Court of Justice, […]
By Bassam Tawil
An overwhelming majority of the Israeli-Arab public opposed the Hamas attack.
Someone with Ms. Pilip’s background is certainly welcome if only in terms of her policy positions which we share. But this is now even more urgent with the growing influence of the woke, liberal, Squad, wing of the Democratic Party in Congress.
By Bassam Tawil
It is now clear that the UN heads were lying when they said they were unaware of the involvement of their employees with terror groups. In fact, they knew but did their utmost to appease Hamas.
I was very excited to see my name on the certificate attesting to the completion of the studies of Neviim and Ketuvim.
The devil's spreadsheet therefore brings the ethical terms of engagement squarely front and centre. Israel did NOT bring war on 7th October. It has Just Cause, is fighting by just means, and has clear precedent.
It has long seemed to us that the ICJ, like most agencies of the UN, view Israel with a jaundiced eye, perceiving it as a product of detested Western colonialism. But notwithstanding that bias, the obvious lack of evidence was apparently too much to overcome.
Within a day of the UNWRA revelations, the news came that Iran proxy groups have ratcheted up their attacks on Western shipping and targets in the Middle East, which began following Oct. 7, and have now resulted in the deaths of three U.S. service members and the injuring of two dozen more.
The revelation of ties between the U.N. aid agency and Hamas is a small part of the problem. The real issue is the purpose of the institution, which has always been to perpetuate the conflict.
Critics of Israel almost never cite comparable data from other military encounters. This omission creates the false impression that the civilian death tolls in Gaza are among the highest in history, when they are in fact among the lowest.
To make matters worse for many Jews’ psyches, not only has the institution they most revere turned out to be a moral wasteland and the most congenial place for enemies of the Jewish people – and of the United States (but that is another story) – at the same time, the people whom many Jews have most feared, conservative Christians, have turned out to be the Jews’ most loyal friends.
“The rate of progress of the IDF, above and below the ground, is historically fast."
Along with imposing migration, European politicians have taken other measures to help establish and empower Islam in Europe, to the detriment of the natives.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
Friedman's soft jihad against Israel is more subtle and acceptable, making it dangerous precisely because it is entertained by rational people and policymakers, especially Democrats.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
The United Nations is the most egregious proliferator of the idea that Israel is a settler-colonial state that occupies the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.
So why does the media describe it as “among the deadliest… in history”?
Israel must immediately end its acceptance of the ICJ's jurisdiction with respect to the Genocide Convention.
By Bassam Tawil
How can Palestinian leaders, who are terrified of Hamas and even more terrified of their own people, be expected to prevent the terrorists from attacking Israel in the event that these leaders were handed a state?
A formerly cooperative relationship now fraught with disagreement
By Ariela Davis
Since our aliyah, my husband, who was a pulpit rabbi in America, gets constant calls from rabbis and principals in America who are considering aliyah. Many have since arrived. Some are still figuring out how to make it work. But it seems there is scarcely a Jewish leader in America who doesn’t have aliyah in the back of his or her mind.
"Any aid to Hamas must be conditioned with disarming its forces and returning all hostages"
The distinction between Hamas and “ordinary” Palestinians is largely spurious.
September 11, 2026 
