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Nov 21, 2023, 11:45 PM

The Geopolitics of American Support for Israel

To understand the geopolitics behind the Biden Administration's support of Israel in its war with Hamas, a good place to start is with a statement earlier this year that had nothing to do with the Middle East. Following a...

Nov 17, 2023, 10:47 PM

Israel Loses the World, Yet Finds Itself

Monitoring the tragic situation in the Middle East from the relative security of the United States (and I do mean relative, given the explosion of international antisemitism), I am struck by two major currents developing in opposite directions. It's clear...

Oct 31, 2023, 7:28 PM

What is a ‘Proportionate’ Response?

Commentators and diplomats have exhausted themselves recently in discussing whether or not Israel’s actions in Gaza following the October 7 mass murder by Hamas constitute a “proportionate” response. On October 29, Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store declared that...

Oct 13, 2023, 6:34 PM

A Personal Prayer

Dear Lord: As the events of the next few weeks unfold, please allow me to be a better person than I am. This past week has shaken my faith in many things, and I will need lots of help in...

Aug 8, 2023, 6:22 AM

Echoes From Niger May be Felt in Jerusalem

Few Americans paid attention these last two weeks when certain elements of the military in the African nation of Niger led a coup that deposed the rule of democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum. They should however, because what happens in...

Jul 28, 2023, 1:19 AM

Why Is Israel’s security so important? Ask America’s anthropologists

On Monday, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) voted to impose an academic boycott on Israel. The vote was overwhelming, with 71% of respondents voting in favor. The AAA boycott resolution left little room for misunderstanding. It called Israel “an...

Jul 26, 2023, 9:49 PM

The Argument Both Sides Must Lose

Never-before seen pictures from Israel appeared this week, as the right-wing government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pushed through a change in what constitutes a "reasonable" decision of government. This term has been used as a hook by "Bagatz,"...

Jun 16, 2023, 4:18 PM

Even In the Darkness, There Can be Light

My cousin Sidney Parmet died last week, at age 99. With him went the last of his generation, leaving the role of elder statesmen to me and to my siblings and cousins of our generation. How did it happen...

Oct 25, 2022, 4:29 PM

The agonizing dilemma of ‘an eye for an eye’

After 50 years in jail, the man who murdered my neighbors' daughter is due to walk free – and I don't know how to feel about that

Oct 13, 2022, 6:03 AM

When and why did progressivism become so comfortable with antisemitism?

The student editors at the Wellesley College student newspaper are proud Progressives. The all-women's institution, one of the most prestigious in the world that counts among its graduates Hilary Clinton, recruits from all over the United States and around...

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Daniel B, Markind is an attorney based in Philadelphia specializing in real estate, commercial, energy and aviation law. He is the former Chair of the National Legal Committee of the Jewish National Fund of America as well as being a former member of the National Executive Board and the National Chair of the JNF National Future Leadership. He writes frequently on Middle Eastern and energy issues. Mr. Markind lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife and children.

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