Guest Column

The postwar West learned to recognize anti-Jewish bigotry through Nazism’s form rather than its function.

Trump staged the spectacle, Erdogan claimed the stage, but Europe’s real move was building a security order Turkey cannot veto and America cannot monopolize.

The United States remains the world's leading superpower, but its growing focus on domestic priorities, economic interests, and declining support for Israel is already reshaping its role in extraordinary ways.

Israel’s lesson is that sovereignty matters most at the moment of decision: coalitions, Washington, and Europe are important, but none of them controls the final call. That responsibility ultimately rests with Jerusalem.

In a special column, the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina writes Israel Hayom about the shared memory with the Jewish people, the parallel struggles, and the need to withstand international pressure while preserving sovereignty and identity.

Against the backdrop of three years of war, it feels as if someone pressed pause on our lives. The question is, how can we keep living, choosing, and building until this is over?

The Air Force remains Israel's spear, but the country's lifelines – trade, energy, communications – run through a Mediterranean that Ankara is working to close.

History shows that when Jerusalem has folded under American pressure, it has earned contempt, while when it has insisted on its sovereign security needs, it has earned respect. Now, as Hezbollah threatens the north and President Donald Trump pursues a deal while expecting absolute obedience, Israel's leaders must not repeat the mistakes of the past. If history is our guide, Israel has no choice but to act independently in the fateful campaign for its future.

Trump’s order is not perfect. It requires oversight, transparency, responsibility, and caution. But it does one thing right: it moves the system forward.

Just a few minutes stood between a deadly disaster and property damage, but luck and timing are not a work plan. It is Israel's responsibility to provide security for communities in the north. What hurts me most is the feeling that we have been abandoned. Some people are afraid and others have already grown used to it, but this is not a situation that can be accepted.