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It’s hard to keep track of what is happening. And it’s hard to figure out where it’s all heading. But there is reason to be optimistic.

Let’s start with Israel. Living hostages have been freed. Some bodies are still not returned….

Donald Trump, presumably in quest of his Nobel Peace Prize, decided to finally settle the Israel-Gaza War and, seemingly as add-ons, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the “Middle East conflict” as a whole.  This has necessarily…

Israel prepares for a much needed election in one year’s time. Consequent to any rational analysis of the current situation and its antecedents (with sanity its only bias) one shudders to contemplate the prospects, given the latest polls…

The potential meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, mentioned during the ASEAN summit, needs careful consideration beyond simple media speculation. This suggests a deliberate reversion to a diplomatic approach that values…

“Jews are evil until proven otherwise; anti-Jewish racism is totally cool.” —Dara Horn*

It’s become impossible to ignore that Jew-hatred on both the right and the left draws from the same ancient playbook. The book cover changes, but…

The so-called “Trump Peace Plan” ceasefire did not bring peace to Gaza—it exposed the rot inside it.

Beneath Hamas’s collapsing empire, 12 armed clans now fight for the spoils of power, money, and revenge.

Gaza is not being rebuilt by…

Zohran Mamdani has built his career on outrage, not outcomes. The 33-year-old Queens assemblyman, now the leading candidate for mayor of New York City, has mastered the art of moralizing without ever proving that his ideas work. His campaign…

As a tender, vulnerable infant and even as a sturdier adolescent, the Jewish state was nurtured and supported by the Jewish communities of the Diaspora. Most Jews  of a certain age will have fond memories of KKL “blue boxes;”  of saving…

Hostages now breathe the air of freedom,

Joy, jubilation and celebration.

For the families who waited, relief;

For those freed, a renewed light from darkness.

Yet, each family, friends and the nation

Live the nightmare, piercing cries,…

Ireland just elected Catherine Connolly without a real political contest. Strange? Maybe not, in a country where supporting Israel makes you an outsider and spoiling a ballot has become the loudest form of protest.

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