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UNRWA staff members protest against cuts in financial aid outside the agency's offices in Gaza City on April 14, 2019. Photo by Hassan Jedi/Flash90.

Defunding UNRWA and collective punishment

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The 14th chapter of the book of Leviticus describes a mysterious disease that infects houses. It states that when this disease is suspected, the dwelling must initially be left empty for seven days. If...

This is not 1938

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The International Court of Justice has delivered its interim judgment on the South African government’s “genocide” charge against Israel. Even a political body appointed by the U.N. General Assembly whose members are mainly non-democratic...
Photo by Pvt. Topaz Luk, IDF Spokesperson Unit.

The Order of Chaos: Israel Should Clarify Its Nuclear Doctrine and Strategy

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HAMM: “What’s happening, what’s happening? CLOV: “Something is taking its course.” Samuel Beckett, Endgame Abstract: Though seemingly paradoxical, even chaos can exhibit a determinable order or “course.” Understood in terms of Israel’s survival in the chaotic Middle...
The U.N. General Assembly. Credit: U.N. Photo/Loey Felipe.

Are Jewish and Arab refugees created equal?

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Following revelations that the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA colluded with Hamas in Gaza, 12 countries have withdrawn or paused their funding to the agency at time of writing, with more likely to come....
Pro-Palestinian protesters in New York City, following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as part of the Black Lives Matter marches at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic across the United States, May 13, 2020. Credit: Luis Yanez/Shutterstock.

How intersectional myths killed the black-Jewish alliance

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For the 1,000 black pastors who have joined a movement to pressure President Joe Biden to force a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, the issue is solidarity with the “oppressed.” This...
Graves of Kibbutz Be'eri residents who were murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023. Photo: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90

Earn the right to say ‘never again’

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day has perhaps never been more difficult to observe. It should be a day to contemplate the antisemitism that murdered six million Jews. It should be a moment to reject viewing...
A Palestinian man outside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza City protests cuts to aid on June 20, 2023. Credit: Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock.

UNRWA exists to help fight the war to eradicate Israel

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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.
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For Israel, a Two-State Solution Would Be a ‘Final Solution’

The evidence is clear. The true aim of all authoritative Palestinian leaderships is not a sovereign and independent state of Palestine – a diplomatic option these leaderships have willfully rejected again and again – ...
U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a phone call with Quint leaders Emmanuel Macron of France, Giorgia Meloni of Italy, Olaf Scholz of Germany and Rishi Sunak of the United Kingdom on Oct. 9, 2023, in the Treaty Room of the White House. Credit: Adam Schultz/Official White House Photo.

Biden hands another win to Iran

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By Oct. 6, 2023, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were on the verge of making peace and ending the Israel-Arab conflict. The deal on the table...
Sailors assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer “USS Carney” respond to a simulated small-craft vessel during an anti-terrorism drill on Dec. 6, 2023. Credit: Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau/U.S. Navy.

Iran’s humiliation of Biden and America

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When U.S. President Joe Biden moved two carrier task groups to the Mediterranean, I had some hope that he would finally take the necessary military action to destroy Iran’s nuclear capability and end the...