‘The Palestinians are 100% responsible for Oslo failing’
Passover night, March 27, 2002: The Dichter family home in Ashkelon is full of family and friends. The phone rings.
“I answered the phone, and the voice on the other end of the line said...
Hillary Clinton tries to rewrite history
I understand that Hillary Clinton is mourning the passing of her friend and predecessor, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. But that doesn’t give her the right to revise the historical record concerning Albright and...
Why Joe Biden’s Call For Vladimir Putin‘s Removal Was Law-Enforcing
Let’s begin at the beginning. International law is part of the law of the United States. It follows, among other things, that if the American president’s recent call for Vladimir Putin’s departure was consistent...
America has to remain a leader in the fight against anti-Semitism
In a departing interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in October 2012, Hannah Rosenthal—on her final day as the U.S. State Department’s Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism—concluded by saying that “there will...
Warding Off Calamitous “Silence” Risks of A U.S.-North Korea Nuclear War
“It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.”
Albert Camus, The Plague
An accelerating nuclear threat
By August 2021, it was clear that nuclear-armed North Korea...
Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine
Two women and a rabbi were among four Israelis murdered in a terrorist attack this week in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva.
The terrorist, a Bedouin from a village of Houra, north of the...
Must Bennett wave the white flag on a new Iran deal?
As far as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is concerned, there’s no point in getting into a fight you can’t win. Given the Biden administration’s unshakable commitment to cutting a deal with Iran that...
Where Are We Heading?: Journeys from “First Man” to the “Last”
“The dust from which the first man was created was gathered in all four corners of the earth.”
– Talmud
Reforming International Law
In the midst of Russia’s escalating crimes against Ukraine, the United States and other nations have one...
Zelensky’s unfortunate Knesset address
Clearly realizing, or having been told by advisers, that he’d crossed a line in his Zoom speech to the Knesset on Sunday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky subsequently softened his tone. In a video message on Telegram several...
The implications for Israel of a return to the dangerous Iran deal
According to the March 4 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),1 Iran has already accumulated:
33.2 kg. of enriched uranium to a very high level of 60% (compared to 17.7 kg in November);
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