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Mar 14, 2025, 2:38 PM

Hope is mandatory

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Many years ago, although it doesn’t feel so long, the Gulf War (part 1) took place. It wasn’t because of Israel, it wasn’t in Israel, and yet it affected us; those of us here at the time had to...

Mar 5, 2025, 2:16 AM

Bringing Our Hostages Home: A Path Forward

Hostages Square, Tel Aviv

The hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, brokered by the U.S., Qatar, and Egypt, sought a phased release of hostages. Phase one secured the return of 33 hostages in exchange for a ceasefire, more humanitarian aid, Israeli withdrawals from...

Eliezer Finkelman

Feb 21, 2025, 9:35 AM

You Might Hate Me for Writing This or Hamas Negotiations

Suppose you were a negotiator for Hamas in the current discussions, which Heaven forfend. What goals would you have? Obviously, to get as much of the Hamas agenda done. Some items on that agenda: Staying in power, getting heroes...

Michael Zoosman

Feb 21, 2025, 9:12 AM

Israel should not execute Hamas terrorists – or anyone else

We, the 3,800+ members of the group “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” wish to respond respectfully to Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Lieberman’s Feb. 15th Jerusalem Post op-ed entitled “Should Israel execute Hamas terrorists for war crimes on par with...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Feb 10, 2025, 5:29 AM

This is what I want Netanyahu to say to Hamas

Enough is enough I want him to say: 'I want you to send home immediately any hostage who's as in mortal danger as the ones you released last.' 'We'll also release the agreed-upon number of prisoners immediately.' 'If not, the whole deal...

Erris Langer Klapper

Jan 30, 2025, 11:54 PM

Us vs. Them: Another Savage Hamas Display

Photo Credit: Times of Israel

Just when I thought Hamas had exhausted its seemingly never-ending supply of savagery and depravity, it got even uglier. Unlike procedures surrounding prisoner swaps in Israel, the scenes from Gaza are bone-chilling. To be clear: Israel continues to release the...

Catherine Perez-Shakdam

Jan 20, 2025, 10:20 AM

The bitter lesson of the hostage release

Courtesy of Catherine Perez-Shakdam - Executive Director We Believe In Israel

The immoral equivalency of innocents taken captive with those convicted of atrocities fundamentally legitimates terror. That is wrong - and dangerous

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 27, 2024, 4:24 AM

Separating Americans from non-American hostages is a war crime

Is your blood redder than the blood of others? – Talmud Sanhedrin 74a It would be unthinkable that the IDF or Israel's negotiators would prioritize abducted Jews over kidnapped Bedouins, Filipinos, or whoever else. Of course, most Jews feel closer to...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Dec 16, 2024, 4:33 AM

The difference between our freed hostages & Pharaoh’s butler

In Parshat Vayeshev, after Yosef interprets the dream of Pharaoh’s butler and explains to him that in three days he will be freed from jail and back at work, Yosef makes a request (Breisheet 40:14-15): Remember me when things go...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Sep 5, 2024, 3:55 PM

An easy analogy to understand the Israel-Chamas War

Just imagine a crime family decides to invade a bank. They kill guards and customers, take hostages, smuggle out money, refuse to surrender, and dream to do it again and again until no branch is left. Meanwhile, people everywhere begin furious...

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