Opinions

Israel needs to move from basing relations with the US on a concept of shared values to basing relations on Israel's value as an asset to the US.

Jewish communities often find themselves on the front lines alone, without a coordinated Jewish defense system and without any rapid, professional response. A new approach is needed, one that creates a permanent global structure capable of providing a safety net and an immediate response in an emergency.

The sentence affirming our country’s right to exist is said only in relation to Israel. No other country needs approval for its very existence, just as no human being needs to be told that they are entitled to live.

The overall return on Western investment in Palestinian maturity is abysmal.

Germany's strong voice in Europe and its economic power are guarantees for the Jewish state that it can avoid a systematic boycott by certain European Union member states.

Israel's unnecessary activism in Syria stands in stark contrast to its inaction in Lebanon. IDF operations do not add up to a strategic effort aimed at neutralizing Hezbollah’s military capabilities.

Under development banners, Turkey has assumed the role of a surrogate state: a base training thousands of Somali soldiers, an airport and port under long concessions controlling its oxygen lines, a national hospital bearing Erdogan’s name and a Turkish state bank - the first foreign bank in Somalia in half a century - granting Ankara a pipeline into governance. This is leverage, not philanthropy. Somalia receives protection and infrastructure; Turkey receives coastline, concessions, deniability and a launch corridor.

Read the proposed legislation before forming an opinion. Before a wave of enlistment can emerge inside the ultra-Orthodox community, the barrier of alienation toward military service must first be broken. As with Moses and Theodor Herzl, before reaching the promised land, the thinking has to change. Patience.

The danger of his non-ideological approach to political and foreign affairs.

Does Macron have such a short memory that he can forget the presence of Yasser Arafat and his terrorists in Beirut? Khomeini's hateful propaganda in Neauphle-le-Château, near Paris? Has he forgiven the French base bombing in Beirut on October 23, 1983, in which 58 French paratroopers were killed?