The Middle East teaches time and again that radical forces do not disappear on their own. Sometimes time actually strengthens them. Sometimes it grants them resources, legitimacy, and capabilities
Each promised but failed breakthrough gave way to another promised breakthrough. And now comes the final indignity: the so-called memorandum of understanding.
One of the most important lessons I’ve learned from working at JQY is that allyship cannot be assumed. It has to be visible.
The idea of a “two-state solution,” creating another Palestinian state, in addition to Jordan, is not realistic or practical.
Diplomacy begins with language. Yet language is never merely vocabulary. Every language carries its own history, literature, symbols, and collective memory. Words rarely travel alone.
The Jewish community needs to have an honest, nationwide conversation about whether Jewish life is worth the cost and how we can fix this issue.
The deal with Ghalibaf does not represent a transformation away from the regime. His function is precisely to offer Washington a “rational” interlocutor through whom the system can rebrand itself
It doesn’t take much to figure out that Trump's cabinet does not have the best people in the US; not the best conservatives, not the best Trump supporters, not the best MAGA believers.
America doesn't have to agree with every Israeli assessment. But it should be careful about dismissing the judgment of a nation that has repeatedly tested the very theories now being applied to Iran.
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
When societies tolerate hatred of Jews and Zionists, they create conditions where political violence can thrive.
