Opinions

Thirty years later, the violence persists and extremists dictate the agenda. It is time to put an end to the divisions by wisely returning to reason and seriously considering the future of our children.    

By inviting Kazakhstan - core to the Middle Corridor, not IMEC - into the Abraham Accords, Trump blurred the map. Its economy remains tied to Moscow through the Eurasian Economic Union. Wrapping it in Middle-Eastern branding confused allies about which path Washington truly backs.

While we hoped Hezbollah would decide to behave and disarm, the terrorist organization has instead been rebuilding its forces and even found new routes for smuggling weapons from Iran. The question is not if it will renew its attacks against Israel, but when.

Nothing short of a deep commitment to traditional Jewish ritual practice – with its personal strictures and many community boundary demands – is likely to lead to a revitalization of Jewish life abroad, and subsequently create a solid basis for recovery in Diaspora-Israel relations, too.

Israel learned, at a terrible and unusually painful price, that the question of identity is central here. Hamas, and with it a decisive majority of Palestinians, will not relinquish their core identity.

The correction must be made hand in hand with the Reform and Conservative movements, which represent not only most American Jews, but also most of New York’s Jews, and those planning to vote for Zohran Mamdani.

Zohran Mamdani identifies, amplifies, and legitimizes the most radical and anti-Zionist Jewish voices, using them as a human shield against any accusation of antisemitism.

The politicization of national institutions and judicial bodies is a serious phenomenon that risks threatening the values of our democracy.

Even though it’s Trump, Israel’s great friend in the White House, we should say plainly: the very idea of giving Turkey any role in Gaza, a country that even after the massacre still hosts Hamas terrorists on its soil, is a grave moral distortion.

Israel has failed in its attempt to defeat Hamas and is unprepared to confront it diplomatically as well. It is now clear to all that Phase B of the Gaza deal will not be implemented and that Hamas will refuse to disarm. Israel must therefore prepare for a reality of a living, breathing, and kicking Hamas—albeit weakened and battered—continuing to operate freely in the Gaza Strip under the very deal Israel signed.