The controversy over Tucker Carlson’s antisemitic remarks at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service on September 21, 2025, demands answers to two foundational and separate questions:
1. Who gains from the assassination of Charlie Kirk?
2. Is Tucker…
Category: 7. Opinion
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Why recognizing a Palestinian state is a crime and will fail
At the very beginning of his op-ed message to Israelis, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer calls himself a friend of Israel. But his actions show this statement to be a lie.On 20 February 2024, while still Leader of the Opposition, he led the…
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Trump’s Israel Policy feels off
Examining recent events, it’s clear that some of President Trump’s moves towards Israel are very positive while others raise eyebrows, but viewed together, they form a troubling pattern. As someone invested in history, and clear thinking about…
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“When the stones speak” | Israel National News
Reviewing “When the Stones Speak: The Remarkable Discovery of the City of David” by Doron Spielman, Center Street Publishing, 2025.
Just a few days ago the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio and U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee attended…
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Why I walked out of Netanyahu’s UN speech
Opinion: When Netanyahu began reading hostage names, I waited for my son’s. He stopped after 20. Stunned, I longed to cry out “Itay!” but held back. Instead, I walked out of the hall. My son is no less a hostage, and I expect an apology.
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The manufactured crisis with Egypt that Israel doesn’t need
In recent weeks, media outlets and social media channels have circulated growing warnings about a “dark conspiracy” emerging from Egypt, ranging from alleged violations of the peace treaty to massive, unilateral military buildups in Sinai and…
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A nation that dwells alone at the UN
Something like half the joint emptied out when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got up to address the near-200 members of the UN General Assembly.
They stormed off ceremoniously. Made you think of High School Mean Girls in the cafeteria who snub…
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The true meaning of today’s blood libels is ‘death to the Jews’
Robert Besser is a news editor who has worked in television and newspapers in theUnited States, Asia and the Middle East.
The sheer will to survive of today’s Jewish people has out-maneuvered the worldwide left, as they seek the deaths of Israel…
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Hamas is on its last legs, yet Netanyahu continues to refuse victory
We could have been, today — a year after the heavy blow Hezbollah took — in the midst of a war to destroy the terrorist group that threatens us from the north. Every week, perhaps every day, there would have been more dead. A just war?…