“Black September” was a fiction—so says the US State Department.
Opinions
The 1929 Hebron massacre killed 67 Jews; to the Palestinian leadership, the worst of the killers are national heroes.
Sunday’s shooting in Jerusalem had the strategic aim of undermining the Jewish presence in the Old City.
As the fallout shakes the Middle East, Israel can help its regional allies and become an oasis in the desert.
God is merciful. Were He to withhold His mercy, the consequences for the nations that are willing to render Israel vulnerable to an Iranian nuclear attack could be more terrifying than we can imagine.
The current arrangement is anachronistic, discriminatory and contradicts today’s international norms.
President Biden should consider the assault to be a metaphor for the dangers inherent in the West’s falling prey to the deadly machine that emboldened the terrorist from New Jersey.
Rather than being bogged down in security arguments or bragging about the sacrifices Israel has made for peace, friends of the Jewish state must speak primarily of Jewish rights and about how anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Everything else is generally a waste of time and effort.
The Biden administration says the US, and the world, is much safer, now that the Al-Qaeda terror chief has been taken out. They would surely agree then, would they not, that Israel and the world would be much safer if the Hamas terror chief were taken out too?