The high cost of terrorist release complicates the gain of hostage freedom.
Founding coordinator of the Global Forum against Anti-Semitism in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, and former senior advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky. Israel office director of Canada’s Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs. A three-decade veteran diplomatic and defense columnist for The Jerusalem Post and many Jewish newspapers around the world.
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At ten months distance from this country’s contemporary national catastrophe of Tisha Be’Av magnitude, the Hamas invasion of Simchat Torah 5784 (also known as the “Black Sabbath” of October 7), …
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The July 30/31 strikes are the beginning of Israel’s emancipation from impossible military and diplomatic handcuffs.
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It is time for Israel to diversify its strategic alliances, sources of raw materials and weaponry, technological partnerships, and more.
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Preservation and protection is a necessity so that something of biblical heritage remains for future generations. So that the land of the Bible is not erased by Palestinian aggression and denialism.
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Escalating Palestinian terrorism, surging illegal Palestinian construction in zones of strategic importance to Israel, and wildly out-of-control arson attacks must be stopped.