There is a remarkably simple message that an Israeli leader could convey without promising a Palestinian state or accepting a particular negotiating formula.
The true objective of the “settler violence” campaign may be much simpler than debate over numbers: serving as a tool in the arsenal of smearing Israel’s very presence.
Modern security in the Gulf can no longer be defined solely by air-defense batteries, maritime patrols, or regional troop posture, but also the subtle, high-trust operational spaces of everyday life.
What I have witnessed does not resemble genocide, apartheid, war crimes, or a disproportionate response. It resembles the opposite: a democracy fighting, under enormous restraint, against an enemy.
Every generation imagines that it has finally outgrown antisemitism, only to rediscover that the impulse and the hate remain, even when hibernating beneath the surface.
For generations, the Jewish community has assumed that stronger Jewish day schools require greater investment in Jewish day schools. Those investments matter, but they don't begin early enough.
As Israelis head to the polls, questions over Netanyahu’s knowledge of October 7 and calls for an inquiry are taking center stage.
There is something deeply strange about an Israel increasingly able to discuss its future with Arab and Muslim states while European nations grow increasingly hostile.
Long gone are the Soviet documents that classified my father’s nationality as “Jew.” In America, I found another kind of othering - this time within my own community.
EcoPeace’s proposed Peace Triangle seeks to connect Gaza’s rehabilitation with water, energy, economic, and security cooperation.
Whereas David Ben-Gurion spoke of integrating Israel into the community of nations in Israel’s declaration of independence, Netanyahu spoke of Israel as a self-sufficient Sparta.
