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The Palestinians’ persistent habit of lying is a combination of honor, dignity, fear, jealousy, and anger. When will they realize it's not serving them or the region?
Multiple signs suggest that Israel is winning the war against Hamas, but ultimate victory will come when both the terror group and Benjamin Netanyahu's government both lay down their arms.
Or, at least, attempting to fight.
If we analyze the logic of Israel's enemies, we can understand that the term "after the war" used by various officials and pundits has no real meaning.
Or, why fulfilling one's Jewishness later in life is advantageous to the individual and beneficial to the Jewish People.
"It is not Israel that is the weak link in the chain. It is almost everybody else."
The more poignant question is: Can’t we all agree on the same historical context and timeline?
Hope is not dead, but a considerable part of it died on October 7th. Here's how we can rebuild and revitalize it.
As universities try to compete for more students and faculty, homogenous opinion is spreading on campus, and academia has metastasized from liberal to illiberal bias.
“We overcame Pharaoh, we’ll get through this too," they like to say in Hebrew.
Or, the reasons that it’s so hard for us Jews to get along.
“There are 600,000 explanations of the Torah, and each person received an interpretation according to the root of their soul.”
We must never take Theodor Herzl's story for granted.
"It seems to me that the time has come to put an end to all the stories of the 'poor Palestinians.'"
“It’s time to admit: The struggle is failing.”
Even the staunchly progressive U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a harsh critic of Israel, recently asserted that there is no possibility of having a permanent ceasefire with Hamas.
As they say in Israel: Yom HaZikaron reminds us about the cost of having a state, and Yom HaShoah about the cost of not.
Across much of the world, it seems that good judgment is quickly becoming a rare phenomenon.
Psalm 73 gives voice to the gamut of complex emotions with which we have all been grappling.
What might Zionism's pioneers say about October 7th and its aftermath?