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Celebrating my daughter’s birthday in a bomb shelter, as missiles struck Tel Aviv
In the shelter, little human dramas play out constantly — while the great drama of war unfolds in the sky
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Opinion Trump’s latest move makes Mahmoud Khalil a Joseph for our times
The Bible teaches us to be skeptical of leaders who grant or withhold liberty on a whim
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Opinion Israel’s strike on Iran was necessary. But for real change, the US must join the fray
Iran is vulnerable — which means there's a real opportunity to end its reign of terror by proxy
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Opinion A precise, Chekhovian logic guided Israel’s strike on Iran — but chaos could come next
The stage for this attack was set almost 30 years ago
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Opinion Trump is forcing liberal Zionists to confront an extraordinarily inconvenient truth
If the US is really abandoning a two-state solution, that means an uncomfortable reckoning for most American Jews
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Opinion A Trumpian parade with soldiers, jets and military vehicles? No tanks.
Trump envies the military spectacle that France perfected, but his ghoulish celebration is the complete opposite
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Opinion Mike Huckabee’s stunning, terrifying new gift to the Israeli right
If the US abandons a two-state solution, Israel will be forced to face existential questions with no good answers
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Opinion Why progressives must retire the slogan ‘free Palestine’
The words may not have originated as a threat to Jews — but now, they sound like one
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Opinion Greta Thunberg’s Gaza flotilla was never going to help Palestinians
The eye-catching protest distracted the world from the starving civilians it aimed to aid
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Opinion As fires burn in LA, has Trump found his Reichstag fire moment?
Trump's decision to call in the National Guard to quell unrest recalls the ways in which Hitler asserted and consolidated power
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Opinion The righteous rabbis protesting those immigration raids in Los Angeles
'It all feels different, militarized, dehumanizing,' said Rabbi Susan Goldberg
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Opinion Mike Huckabee’s stunning, terrifying new gift to the Israeli right
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Fast Forward Israeli weapons display is walled off at Paris Air Show, in move Israelis decry
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