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Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 22, 2018, 4:25 PM

The West needs to understand cultural dishonesty

After decades of threatening to wipe Israel off the map, Iran's supreme dictator has come out explaining that it has always been against violence against Israel and that it always was for a peaceful solution to the Middle East...

Andy Blumenthal

Jun 19, 2018, 12:11 AM

Please Don’t Burn Israel Anymore

So why does Hamas in Gaza keep sending thousands of incendiary kites and flaming balloons into Israel? On one hand, they claim a "March of Return" to Israel--even though it's the Jewish people that were forcibly expelled from just about...

Jun 6, 2018, 7:02 PM

Remembering Lebanon — Purity of Arms

The soldier shall make use of his weaponry and power only for the fulfillment of the mission and solely to the extent required; he will maintain his humanity even in combat. The soldier shall not employ his weaponry and...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

May 31, 2018, 4:21 PM

The Seven Books of the Torah

In Parshat Behaalotcha, we find two verses from Bamidbar 10:35-36 which we have been saying since the 13th century, each time the Torah is removed from the ark and replaced, “Vayehi binsoah ha’aron…”, “When the ark would journey, Moshe...

Daniel Bucksbaum

May 28, 2018, 7:30 AM

Israel’s Strategy for Maneuvering in Syria

The situation in Syria is drastically changing to the benefit of Israel, and the interests of Russia and Iran are beginning to diverge to a point where Russia is now more willing to accommodate Israeli security needs and interests....

May 23, 2018, 12:24 AM

Israel’s Morality of Survival

Israel's very existence is, historically-speaking, an improbability. To say that Israel exists still feels, seventy years after its declaration of independence, like the modern resurfacing of some long-submerged ancient mythical realm, Atlantis say. It is the rebirth of a...

May 13, 2018, 6:01 PM

Israeli-Iranian Military Collision on May 10, 2018 ~ Immediate Observations

On May 10, 2018 the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRG) shot twenty rockets at Israel from inside Syria. In response, Israel struck Syrian-based IRG weapons depots, logistics sites, and intelligence bases - as well as a Syrian army surface-to-air missile...

Michael Aarenau

May 11, 2018, 6:18 AM

Israel’s strikes on Iranian Forces in Syria: retaliation or aggression?

Last night, Israel launched its largest strike in Syria since the beginning of the civil war, with the IDF reporting that they had struck almost all of Iran's military infrastructure inside of Syria. This military operation was carried out...

May 6, 2018, 7:35 AM

John “Rodman” Kerry begs Zarif to save Obama legacy

I do not possess a security clearance. I have no clue how relevant the files and DVD's pulled from some innocuous warehouse in Tehran by the Mossad are to determining whether America should remain in the JCPOA. Honestly, I could care...

Andy Blumenthal

May 5, 2018, 6:35 PM

The Samson Dilemma

Recently, I watched the movie “Samson” on video on demand. It was the traditional story of Samson and Delilah that I have loved since I first heard it as a child. Samson the strong, the national Jewish hero, of 3,000 years...

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