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Paul MendlowitzThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
If America treats Iran as an equal strategic partner despite decades of terrorism, hostage-taking, proxy warfare, and nuclear brinkmanship, what...
There is a tragic similarity in the psychology of collective accusation. When Nicholas Kristof paints Jews as uniquely bloodthirsty, uniquely...
By the time the delegation from Donald Trump landed in Beijing, the Chinese leadership had already prepared the banquet menu. Not diplomacy. Not...
Before the unveiling, the figure was blessed. Pastor Mark Burns — Trump’s longtime spiritual adviser and a candidate for Congress in South...
Donald Trump’s character matters because character is not decorative. It is not a ribbon you pin on after the work is done. Character is the...
For two thousand years, the great tragedy of Jewish history was not only hatred, but helplessness. Jewish blood was cheap because Jewish power was...
There is a certain tragic comedy in watching a self-proclaimed master negotiator reveal, move by move, that he needs the deal more than the deal needs...
Trump tells Israel to hold its fire on the terrorists on their northern border, and suddenly everyone is expected to treat that as a normal act of...
“Look at this! They flew halfway around the world to sit in a room with no windows—so nobody can see nothing is happening!” “So I’m reading...
A Gentile watches a war and says, “This is very complicated—history, religion, politics.” A Jew watches the same war and says, “Give it five...
Passover is not a holiday for the timid. It is the season of rupture, of memory, of refusal. It is the night we remember that freedom was never handed...
And then there is the uncomfortable truth that a total Israeli victory would expose something Washington does not always want exposed: that many of...
In Arad, where the desert air carries both silence and warning, a strange and dangerous contradiction has taken root. On one hand, the modern State of...
There are moments in history when a civilization faces a threat so clear that one assumes the public must understand it. Yet again and again,...
“Ha-ba lehargecha hashkem lehargo” (אם בא להורגך השכם להורגו) is a Talmudic maxim from Sanhedrin 72a instructing that if...
A cornered enemy is the most dangerous enemy of all. History has taught this lesson in blood, and we dare not forget it in a moment of adrenaline....
You have gilded your name in brass and glass from Manhattan to Las Vegas. You have stamped it on towers, golf courses, steaks, and skylines. But...