Israel will be Less Secure if “Deal of the Century” is Carried Out

This deal would reduce Israel to approximately nine miles wide—virtually indefensible—as it was before the 1967 Six Day War.
Int’l Holocaust Day, 75 Years After Auschwitz, Not Much Learned

International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is January 27, designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/7 in 2005.
A Great, but Fragile, Triumph of Zionism

The arrival of dozens of world leaders to Jerusalem to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and commit to fighting anti-Semitism represents recognition of Zionism’s fundamental truth: Israel is the one and only eternal homeland of the Jewish people.
Is Trump’s Plan a Plot, a Fantasy or an Exercise in Realism?

It’s not clear whether it will bail out Bibi or hurt Gantz, but imagining a future Middle East that accepts most of these terms is actually a practical idea.
What Putin didn’t talk about in Jerusalem …

Soviet propaganda claimed that the Zionist movement was an ideological bedfellow of the Nazis, and that Zionist leaders had collaborated with the Nazis at just the time that the USSR was engaged in its heroic resistance.
Trump’s Invitation has Changed the Stakes of the Election

Trump’s sudden decision to summon Netanyahu to the White House for a meeting next Tuesday and his acceptance of Netanyahu’s request that Gantz also be invited, puts Gantz in a bind.
Israel’s F-35i ‘Adir’ Stealth Fighter Is a Beast (And Now A Second Squadron Is Ready)

The F-35i has been kept under wraps and extreme security by Israel.
For Israel, Now is the Time for Strategic Initiatives

In recent weeks the United States has returned to the Middle East, in a major way. With a lightning strike, it knocked Iran on its heels, erased all its achievements of the past few years and mainly exposed its weakness. It is an illuminating fact that after Iran sustained the U.S. knockout punch—in the form […]
Holocaust Remembrance, Palestinian Irrelevance

Bemoaning all the apparent attention on the Jews prior to the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, a columnist for the official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper “Al-Hayat Al-Jadida” proposed murder as a solution to stop the proceedings.
75 Years After Auschwitz And Not Much Learned

As that rabbi said, referring to the need for Jewish self-defense, “I’d rather be a live Jew that everybody hates, than a dead Jew that everybody mourns over.”