Author - Joshua Katzen

Joshua Katzen is the publisher of Jewish News Syndicate.

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The community of Kibbutz Kfar Aza holds a memorial ceremony two years after the Oct. 7 massacre, when Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel, murdering more than 1,200 people. Oct. 7, 2025. Photo by Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90

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The fantasy of a ‘deradicalized’ Gaza

October 10, 2025

The world will press ahead with rebuilding, congratulating itself for progress while ignoring the fact that there really has been none.

A child in the city of Ramallah holds a Palestinian national flag, while at the same time signing for peace, during a local protest against the Paris Protocol and the Oslo Accords, key agreements that govern economic ties between Israelis and Palestinians, Sept. 11, 2012. Photo by Issam Rimawi/Flash90.

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Trump’s peace plan is Oslo all over again

October 3, 2025

The accords in the 1990s proved that conditional peace frameworks that depend on Palestinian goodwill and compliance are illusions.

A soldier from the ultra-Orthodox Unit at the Givati Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces during a training near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, Sept. 27, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

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It’s time for Israel to stop playing by the rules while its enemies play for keeps

August 6, 2025

Israel’s goal should be not to be seen as the “good guys.” It should be seen as too expensive and painful to attack.