Reckoning the odds stacked against it, Hamas declared the war in Gaza over. A comparable event would be Hitler declaring a pause in the Holocaust in order to stave off defeat.
“BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!” wrote Donald Trump.
The conversion…
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Is Berlin’s Jewish Museum still supporting Jews? Controversy resurfaces after October
Since its founding on September 11, 2001, the Jewish Museum Berlin has proved controversial. Though it draws over 700,000 visitors annually, it is funded by German authorities and has no institutional ties to Jewish bodies in Germany.
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Trump’s Knesset address and a mother’s cry mark a nation’s tu
The headline of this day did not come from any leader’s mouth — not even from the most powerful man in the world, in his extraordinary speech to the Knesset. It came instead from the few tearful words repeated over and over by Einav Zangauker…
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Now is the time to reclaim joy
Since the deadly terror attack on Simchat Torah two years ago — when more than 1,200 Israelis were murdered and many others kidnapped — the Gregorian date of October 7 has become a national and even international symbol of collective trauma….Continue Reading
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Welcome, President Trump: My letter to a true friend of Israel
Welcome, President Trump!
When you arrive this morning at the Knesset building in Jerusalem, your feet will step onto a place that is a true historical miracle. Indeed, the very existence of the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish…
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to the fallen IDF soldiers and the wounded who made the hostag
And now, with the great joy over the return of the hostages—those alive and those who will never come home—and with a drop of optimism flowing back into our lives at the thought that this terrible war, now in its second year, may finally be…Continue Reading
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Why I consider this a terrible deal
Like everyone else, I’m happy that the hellish suffering of 20 Jews is about to end. But what’s good for the individual is not always good for the nation, and what’s good for the nation is not always good for the individual.
You’d think we…
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A PA Consulate in Jerusalem flouts international law
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, as a matter of fact and law.
As Eugene Rostow, a distinguished US legal scholar, who was the Dean of Yale Law School and an Under-Secretary of State explains, the 1920 San Remo Resolution, which was…
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The second phase of the Gaza deal is the main challenge
Yaakov Lappin is an Israel-based military affairs correspondent and analyst. He is the in-house analyst at the Miryam Institute; a research associate at the Alma Research and Education Center; and a research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for…
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How Trump Pulled a Kissinger to Get a Cease-fire Deal Done – Opinion
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