Israel Against Terrorism: The Primacy of Intellectual Struggle
Facing new cycles of terror attacks, Israel must prepare to look far beyond traditional forms of counter-terrorism strategy. Rather than remain preoccupied with high-technology weapons and forces, the nation’s military and political communities need...
Deep in the Heartlessness of Texas: Is Abortion Law an Antisemitic Plot?
Jewish Texans, estimated to number 176,000, should probably worry about the deep in the heartlessness of the Texas abortion law — with the reporting of Amanda Eid’s near-death experience.
The majority of Texas lawmakers approved...
The Palestinians had a great Thanksgiving, Israel not so much
While you were still trying to figure out how to seat 12 people at a table for 10, seven-year-old Israeli Demir Ladigin and his brother were burying their father Michael. On the same day,...
Climate Change And The Painful Experiences It Inflicts
The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference is over. There is some good news from it and some not so good news. The good news is that the wealthy countries have agreed to give...
Trumpism And The Midterm Elections
The results of the midterm elections in the United States are mostly in, although one senate race has yet to be decided. However, the Democrats are happy because, although they lost the House of...
‘The New York Times’ demonstrates why Israelis have turned right
There has been a great deal of surprise and confusion in the American press over the results of the recent Israeli elections. Pundits and self-styled “experts,” as well as liberal American Jews, seem to...
No, the ‘override clause’ won’t ‘crush’ Israeli democracy
Israel’s outgoing interim prime minister, Yair Lapid, opened his Yesh Atid Party meeting on Monday by addressing the infamous “override clause.”
“It will crush the court; it will crush Israeli democracy,” he said, referring to...
Tom Friedman: Mistaken or disingenuous?
On Nov. 4, The New York Times’ Tom Friedman, who reflects the worldview of the State Department establishment, lamented that “the Israel we knew is gone.”
Should one rely on Friedman’s assessments concerning the Middle East?
In...
Reason And Anti-Reason In Moscow: Psychiatric Determinants Of “Cold War II”
Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine has obviously critical implications for United States foreign policy. Among other things, this expanding Russian “crime against peace” has undermined once residual hopes for superpower reconciliation or “détente.” In essence, whatever...
Israel’s new coalition shouldn’t write off American Jewry
It may be that some of the statements emanating from certain partners in Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government are more a function of posturing than genuine policy priorities. But even if those expressing them are...