British Jews Joseph Cohen and Alex Carson experienced increasing antisemitism in the UK and Europe. When authorities did nothing to prevent or address the problem, they chose to return to their home.
The immediate existential threat to Israel has been removed. For now, Israelis can breathe. But that is true only for this moment, not necessarily for the next one.
There was a young man who was chosen. He did not choose himself. In fact, he had no plans to enter politics and no ambition to become prime minister. Yet God often chooses people who never expect it.
Many Republicans initially dismissed the Tea Party as a passing fringe phenomenon. Democrats should not make the same mistake.
Restoring Lebanon to its former promise as the “Paris of the Middle East” will require far more than a normalization agreement, and reclaiming genuine sovereignty will be a difficult process.
Hostile powers don’t invent a nation’s weaknesses; they find the ones it already has, fund them, give them prestige, and push them through the institutions that decide how a society sees itself.
The moral question, however, never changed. If recognizing the Armenian tragedy is a moral imperative today, why was it not one in 2006, or in 1996?
Raphael Lemkin was my cousin. He was a Polish Jewish lawyer who watched the Nazis murder dozens of our relatives and sat down and invented a word for the crime he could not otherwise name - genocide.
The reality is that being the mother or father of a fallen soldier or hostage does not prove political suitability, nor should it.
Antisemitism knows no political boundaries. While on the Left more seems directed at Israel with some spillover to the American Jewish community, the targets on the Right tend to be Jews.
The latest agreement shows Israel and Lebanon increasingly aligned in efforts to weaken Hezbollah and restore state control.