David M. Weinberg

Israel has no choice but to scorn such Western leaders and continue to independently secure its future, and must weather the threats of diplomatic and economic isolation from the world.

KNOW COMMENT: Callousness and double standards are the reasons why Israelis increasingly dismiss Western pressures.

Israel will apply its updated defense doctrine, its regional superpower prism, of preventively downgrading enemy capabilities and preempting enemy threats.

Here is a summer reading roundup of 17 recent deep-think articles on a range of issues: the Gaza and Iran wars, US-Israel relations, global antisemitism, Israeli society, and more.

Rising Lion indeed is a “peculiar and fateful” moment in history, and point to the attentive hand of God in our world.

Now is not the time to rush headlong into a ceasefire with Hamas that will bring neither immediate hostage release nor long-term security to Israel, nor real relief to Palestinians.

Israel’s principled leadership should be celebrated and lauded, not dismissed with mealy-mouthed mutterings about its “right” to defend “itself” and feeble murmurs about de-escalation.

The global campaign to demonize Israel through "settler violence" is not just a lie—it’s a political weapon used to justify actions against Israel’s government.

Trump thinks that the weighty economic power of America and the force of his HUGE personality will bend adversaries to his will.

Instead of pushback against the increasingly genocidal Palestinian national movement, we get more perilous pablum about the “urgency” of Palestinian statehood.