If you are looking for a political solution to the social rift in American and Israeli democracy, you are solving the wrong problem. The rift is not political. It is civilizational. And it will not be resolved until it is properly understood.
Reality proves that antisemitism is a strategic arm of our enemies. Israel must move from weak public diplomacy to firm diplomatic measures: recalling ambassadors and issuing uncompromising security demands.
Those who live in Israel sacrifice daily for the dream of Jewish peoplehood. We, who do not yet live there, have a greater obligation to demonstrate that nothing, not ideology or geographical distance, can hold us apart.
When other countries stop military shipments to Israel, Czech arms export to Israel grows. The weekend revolutionaries in the West, chanting for liberation from a safe distance of four thousand miles, are exactly what Hamas, Hezbollah, and their masters in Iran view: useful idiots.
While others scrambled for relevance, Pakistan – sidelined, indebted, and overlooked – quietly positioned itself at the center of the Middle East's new order.
The Iranian regime this week pulled out another card from its arsenal: 12-year-old children. Recruiting children is the latest move by a government that has lost the ability to persuade or meet the people's needs and has chosen instead to traffic in hunger. It is a desperate attempt to pit poor against poor, a hungry child in uniform against a student hungry for freedom.
With geographic advantages and a direct line to the Trump administration, Islamabad is maneuvering to broker talks – but its credibility is tested by domestic unrest and broken alliances.
War with Turkey is not assumed. It is planned for, and failure to plan makes it more likely and more destructive.
The expectation that regime change in Iran would automatically yield a fundamentally more moderate and less hostile foreign policy appears, at the very least, highly questionable.
34 years after the Israeli Embassy bombing that killed my wife, the fight against the regime behind it continues.
