Opinion

Why Hamas continues to fail the Palestinian people - opinion

Hamas has delivered sustained misery, failure, death, and devastation to the Palestinian people and their cause.

A girl sits on an iron structure at a makeshift camp in Gaza City on November 3, 2025. After two years of war and devastation, there is an opportunity for Palestinians and Israelis to find a path to peace. Premium
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‘Weaponized empathy’: Military expert on how Hamas exploits Western ignorance of war - opinion

The war in Gaza has underscored a painful truth: Israel excels on the battlefield but falters in the battle for hearts and minds. An Israeli soldier sits on top of a tank at a position in the South, near the Israel-Gaza border fence, on October 30, 2025. PremiumPremium

The fight for legitimacy now runs through algorithms

SAUDI CROWN PRINCE Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the White House will considerably impact the Saudi role in the Mideast, the future of President Trump’s plans for the region, and political prospects for Israel, the writer predicts.

Will the Saudis raise the Palestinian question in the White House? - opinion


Trump, MBS, and Israel: The ‘best friend’ meets the fascinating leader - opinion

The US-Saudi summit provides an opportunity for the two leaders to coordinate a message to Netanyahu: Withdraw your veto or face exposing your self-serving intransigence to the Israeli public.

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman during a welcoming ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025

Politicization of the ADL: How the antisemitism watchdog abdicated its responsibilities - opinion

Today’s ADL has abdicated this responsibility, and the Jewish community will suffer the consequences.

NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS headline Zohran Mamdani’s victory the morning after Election Day this month. Establishing a special project targeting a Muslim mayor echoes the Islamophobic attacks against him, the writer charges.

The game is afoot: The race to rebuild Gaza and win its major investment opportunities - opinion

Gaza’s forthcoming regeneration program offers significant investment, industrial, and commercial opportunities for a wide range of potential players, regional and international. The game is afoot.

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds the signed agreement at the international summit on ending the Israel-Hamas War, in Sharm el-Sheikh last month. Despite his hostility to Israel, he demonstrates a calculated pragmatism, the writer notes.

The Druze stood with Israel, now we must champion a state for them - opinion

The Druze stood with us when it mattered. Now we must stand for them and place this initiative firmly on Israel’s diplomatic agenda today.

A WALL is pockmarked by bullet holes inside a house in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, Syria, in July. Today, the situation for the Druze in Syria is catastrophic, the writer asserts.

Hezbollah leader’s message shows the terror group is under pressure - opinion

However, action must also extend to the social and ideological arenas, not just the military (prevention efforts) and economic (sanctions) fronts.

HEZBOLLAH LEADER Naim Qassem appears on a screen delivering a speech at a ceremony marking the first anniversary of former leader Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination by Israel, on the outskirts of Beirut in September.

No more splinters: Israel can no longer fund its own vilification by haredim - opinion

The haredi protest, which took place last week, displayed the 'parisitism dressed up as piety' rampant in the haredi institutions which take public funding but revile the IDF

Masses attend ‘The cry of the Torah’ demonstration in Jerusalem last month. What took place was not holiness; it was hypocrisy, the writer charges.

Haaretz’s claims on brit milah: Separating fact from misconception - opinion

That this family continues to have a strong connection to our nation, history, and customs speaks to how brit milah – unchanged itself across millennia – continues to preserve the Jewish people.

THE WRITER, second from left, performs a circumcision in the presence of four generations, great-grandfather to newborn. Just as much as the Jewish people have continuously kept the commandment of circumcision, the practice has preserved our identity, he asserts.

How we rebuild courage following New York's betrayal - opinion

It hurts to see the city I love lose its moral compass.  The Jewish story has never ended with pain – it always turns toward rebuilding.

SMOKE FROM the ruins of the World Trade Center shrouds Lower Manhattan as the Statue of Liberty stands in the foreground, on September 12, 2001. ‘I remember the unity of the day after the September 11 attack, when strangers looked out for one another,’ says the writer.

It’s time for Israel to recognize the Armenian genocide - opinion

For Israel, a nation forged in the aftermath of the Holocaust, the moral imperative could not be clearer.

People gather at a memorial site to commemorate the dead in the 1915 mass killing of Armenians, in Yerevan, 2006

Israel should let journalists into Gaza, and this is why - opinion

The hard questions that come with open press access are preferable to the easy wrong answers that come with restriction.

HASSAN ESLAIAH, who worked for the AP and CNN, is kissed by then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Diaspora Jews Beware: Psychotherapy can be hazardous to your health - opinion

When such biases infiltrate the helping professions, the harm multiplies: it silences those who need help most.

A depressed woman