Opinion Articles

Will the IDF strike in Doha kickstart a hostage deal?

Did the strikes in Qatar move the country closer toward ending the war and bringing the hostages home, or did it push both goals further away?
Will the IDF strike in Doha kickstart a hostage deal?
President Donald Trump, along with the emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, is in the background on a computer screen. Photo by Shutterstock
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Returning to sites of the massacre, hard yet necessary

We should do whatever it takes! – to see the evil that so many Gazans unleashed upon us on October 7.
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Acknowledge the Religious Zionist Community’s Sacrifices in the War

Since the war in the Gaza Strip began, there have been a number of fallen soldiers from the religious Zionist community. Many of them grew up in or lived in settlements in Judea and Samaria
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Israel-Diaspora Relations

Trust Me, You’d Rather Live in a Pro-Israel America

Last week, the preening populist Tucker Carlson sneered that Ben Shapiro and other pro-Israel Americans don’t “care” about America “at all” and are too “focused on a conflict in a foreign country as their own country becomes dangerously unstable.”
Israel-Diaspora Relations
Geopolitics

Dennis Ross: On Gaza, ‘Netanyahu’s Far-right Ministers Aren’t Living in Reality’

Ambassador Dennis Ross has played an important role in U.S. Middle East policy in recent decades, being the point man in the peace process in both the George W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.
Geopolitics
Israel-Diaspora Relations

Non-Jews should lead the fight against Jew hatred

US leaders have consistently condemned Jew-hating incidents. every decent American should join them
Israel-Diaspora Relations
Identity

Zionism: Still helping Jews save themselves

Israel’s government failed systemically, flamboyantly, from the coalition’s inception. The IDF’s border defense failed operationally and strategically.
Identity
Geopolitics

What’s the End Game for Gaza? Netanyahu Must Spell It Out

Since Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Israel’s prime minister for the first time in 1996, he has built up a career as someone who has consistently been dragged into various diplomatic, political and peace initiatives by the different American administrations with which he has worked.
Geopolitics
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Israel stopped apologizing on October 7

Since Hamas’s savagery, with young Israelis dying every day, the accusations, anguish, and apologetics must end. The relationship between Israel and the Diaspora needs resetting
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Protest politics endangers the hostages

No matter what we think of the government, our duty is to ensure that nothing delays the return of the captives in Gaza
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