Commentary

The reopening is taking place under restrictions that did not exist before the war, operating without the transfer of goods and subject to additional security oversight under Israeli supervision. It is a concession that is far from ideal, but the lesser evil under current circumstances

The Iranian issue is not only about nuclear capabilities or missiles, but about declarations and credibility. As long as statements by all sides are not backed by clear action, the gap will continue to widen. In the Middle East, such gaps tend to close not through diplomacy, but through crises.

President Donald Trump has left the door open to talks with Iran, but all indications suggest the sides are edging closer to confrontation. One scenario could even lead Israel to join a US strike.

Those who entered the stormy sea and were privileged to see it split marked out the historic path that continues from then until our own day. Slaves who feared their masters were required to shed the husks of mental enslavement. Their children, who crossed the sea, would become the generation that conquered Canaan in the end. And from them, to our own generations.

Public protests in Iran have been crushed and its society has been battered, but the cracks at the top of the regime are growing. Senior commanders are amassing wealth in the West, their children hold foreign citizenship, and a scenario of an internal plot, backed by Western powers, could make a large-scale war unnecessary.

The Exodus from Egypt was first and foremost a revolution of consciousness, the emergence of a nation of slaves into freedom. The process by which the Hebrew fetus was torn from the Egyptian womb minted our national identity in the coinage of eternity.

As US forces reinforce the region and President Trump escalates deterrent messaging, regime-linked discourse in Tehran has increasingly focused on potential response scenarios. Senior figures have openly threatened a preemptive strike. Iran’s available options center primarily on its missile and drone capabilities, but also include asymmetric measures such as targeted assassinations in Israel and the activation of sleeper cell operatives inside the United States.

The draft exemption law is important because it lowers the level of hostility, halts the reflexive “anti” discourse, and creates space in which the Haredi public understands that it must change. Not change forced by a clenched fist, but change that can actually be implemented.

The critical mistake of the Trump-Kushner approach is the attempt to reduce a deep national, religious, and identity conflict to a cash-flow and urban-development problem.

The international community has no clue what the true gravity of the Holocaust was, nor do they care unless they can use it for their own political agenda.