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Paul MendlowitzThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
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...