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Sep 20, 2021, 6:25 PM

Why bother with the Taylor Force Act?

Israeli and American officials participate in a goodbye ceremony for Taylor Force, the US citizen killed in a stabbing terror attack in Jaffa, as his body is sent back to be buried in the United States, at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 11, 2016. (Flash90)

The US and Israel passed laws to block the PA's 'pay for slay' policy, so what made the Jewish state replenish the terrorists' slush fund?

Jun 5, 2021, 10:07 PM

Lapid’s clueless claim that Netanyahu can’t work with Biden

Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu addresses the US Congress.

The likely alternate PM and foreign minister has a thing or two to learn about what relations between country leaders are all about

May 26, 2021, 3:26 PM

Hamas’s so-called victory is a flop by almost every measure

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi (C) visit a building that was hit by Hamas rocket fire from Gaza, on May 20, 2021, in Petah Tikva. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Arab support was tepid to silent, ditto for world condemnation of Israel. And no, settlement construction in Judea and Samaria is not slowing down.

Oct 1, 2020, 2:19 PM

When Ruth Bader Ginsburg got it wrong on Pollard

LEFT: Jonathan Pollard speaks during an interview, Friday, May 15, 1998, at the Federal Correction Institution in Butner, N.C. (AP Photo/ Karl DeBlaker)
RIGHT: Supreme Court nominee Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg prepares to testify in her confIrmation hearing at Capitol Hill on Tuesday, July 20, 1993 in Washington before the Judiciary Committee.(AP Photo/Doug Mills)

Justice Ginsburg's ruling in an appeal against the spy's life sentence exacerbated existing divisions within the Jewish American community

Jun 30, 2020, 12:55 PM

Why the Jordan Valley and why now?

Donald Trump embraces Benjamin Netanyahu, during their meeting in Washington, where the so-called 'Deal of the Century' was unveiled. (@Netanyahu on Twitter via Jewish News)

With the 'deal of the century,' the Palestinians just might negotiate a realistic end of the conflict, especially as they strengthen Israel’s position if they do not

Jun 23, 2020, 12:46 PM

Annexation will not end Israel’s peace with Jordan

Jordan's King Abdullah II, reviews an honor guard before giving a speech to parliament in Amman, Jordan, November 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

King Abdullah knows canceling the treaty might be popular now, but the long-term impact will be more poverty and, potentially, destabilization

May 25, 2020, 3:16 PM

Intellectual inconsistency on annexation

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers guard near the security fence between Israel and Jordan in the Arava Valley in southern Israel, February 9, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Alan Solow's suggestion that US Jews should speak out against Israel imposing what it deems a defensible eastern border is morally troubling

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Julio Messer is a former president of American Friends of Likud.