Category: JPost Opinion

We all carry around a private list of things we tell ourselves we’ll get to one day. Mine, for as long as I can remember, was to visit all 48 contiguous states. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

Diplomacy with Iran is portrayed as a cycle of progress and delay, where clarity often gives way to calculated ambiguity. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

If Israel truly believes Somaliland deserves a seat among the family of nations, then it cannot stop at the bilateral opening of embassies and exchange of ambassadors. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

My wife, Jody, and I started planning the trip in January, but when the war with Iran broke out, we didn’t feel comfortable finishing our booking not knowing if we’d still be at war. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

This would be my sixth London-with-English-Speaking Savta trip for my grandchildren of bar and bat mitzvah age, always taking two or three cousins who had reached the appropriate age.  | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

That is the point. Israel didn’t try. It rarely does. And that, right now, is the story of Israeli public diplomacy in a single sentence: Israel is not even in the game. The question is why. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

In placing Israeli institutions alongside Hamas, the UN has practically collapsed the distinction between isolated criminal allegations and systematic sexual violence deployed as a weapon of war. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

A country that is inherently immoral because of the inequality of its citizens based on national-religious identity and rejects the aspiration of seeking maximal justice cannot survive forever. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

Violence, extremism, and division are distorting Torah values in parts of Israeli society and religious life. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

A deal that provides sanctions relief to Tehran ensures the regime will remain in power. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

Netanyahu’s victory in 1996 remains one of the greatest political comebacks in Israel. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

The Hamas massacre shattered Israeli society in ways that many outsiders struggle to grasp. Since then, another reality has taken shape: the quiet academic boycott of Israelis. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

The PLO was established three years before the Six Day War, before Israel controlled Judea and Samaria and Gaza. The “occupation” didn’t exist yet. So what was the PLO seeking to liberate? | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

As Israel and Gulf states build deeper strategic and economic ties, Tokyo has a growing interest in regional stability and cooperation. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

I will miss the Fairmount Temple building after it’s gone. But I’ll also miss the way it embodied the architect’s insights about the need for sacred space. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

The next attack is already being drafted somewhere. It will not wait for a press office to answer. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

The regime suffered blows of a kind it had never before endured, yet its coercive institutions held. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

If Jews are being harassed in the street, synagogues are being attacked, and Israel is regularly delegitimized, then why do Jews want to live there? | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

The Torah does not begin with the story of Moshe Rabbeinu; it begins instead with Bereishit – with creation. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

The restoration of national sovereignty is Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s priority. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

Netanyahu and his coalition partners have decisively chosen a path that goes against the mostly liberal US Jews. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

China’s leadership may calculate that meaningful cooperation with Washington on Iran deserves reciprocal American flexibility on Beijing’s core national objective. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

A narrow agreement that freezes one file while funding the rest of the system would create the illusion of progress and the reality of danger. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post

Modern anti-Israel narratives echo historic blood libels and fuel hostility toward Jews globally. | Read More in JPost.com – Opinion | The Jerusalem Post