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.
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?
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.
In Lebanon, as in Lebanon, nothing has changed: a year after the ceasefire, Hezbollah still stands on its feet and refuses to disarm. And the same is true in Gaza: Hamas is rebuilding its forces and its political standing under American protection. We have not learned that war is never an end in itself, it is always meant to serve diplomatic goals.
Taking a moral stance is all that can be done.
Israel now has an urgent need to choke off and eliminate every Islamist branch that has taken root and multiplied inside the country under the cover of Israeli helplessness or blindness.
Trump chose to appease Arab dictators rather than do what’s right and allow Israel to proclaim its sovereignty over territory that rightfully belongs to the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
With a tenfold increase in the number of Muslims in less than half a jubilee and an orderly plan, even the US is on a dangerous path.
Europe shows urgency over Crimea and Donbas - territories where it owes no legal duty - while hesitating to act for Cyprus, the only place where its obligations are explicit and unmet. The reason is hierarchy: Russia is punished because it is distant; Turkey is indulged because it sits inside the system and extracts concessions. Moscow coerces; Ankara shapes. Europe denounces Russia's annexation of Crimea while treating the occupation of its own member state as a logistical nuisance. For Israel, this is not academic.
Even in the earlier “Deal of the Century,” Benjamin Netanyahu steered Donald Trump toward a Bar-Ilan-style bear hug: first applying Israeli law to parts of the territories, and only afterward offering a “minus Arab state.”
