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The Civil Riots in Israel Are a Warning to Prevent a Dark Future Our decision-makers should ask themselves some hard questions regarding the critical issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Police arrest a protester at a demonstration organized by the Standing Together Movement, which calls Arabs and Jews to unite, and demands the end of attacks on both Israel and Gaza, on May 15, 2021, in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by Daniel Rolider/Getty Images) Following Operation Guardian of the Walls and...

The very idea that Jews are being beaten to a pulp in Midtown Manhattan is as inconceivable as the acts are criminal.

For now, ceasefire prompts calm as Israel institutes ‘Law and Order’ campaign For now, ceasefire prompts calm as Israel institutes ‘Law and Order’ campaign Tensions are still simmering in places like Jerusalem, and in Judea and Samaria, following violent riots that took place at the start of Ramadan in April, which carried over during the Gaza operation, spilling into in mixed Jewish-Arab cities throughout the country. (May 25, 2021 / JNS) Even though the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire bet...

What is new has been the rioting in mixed Jewish-Arab cities   The current fighting between Hamas and Israel is to a large extent a rerun: It is the fifth major confrontation between Israel and Hamas since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. We have seen this script before: Thousands of rockets — Hamas rockets, albeit with longer range, improved accuracy, and larger payloads — aimed at Israel’s cities; international condemnations of Israel’s response to the deliberate ...

10 takeaways from the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas Featured Column 10 takeaways from the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas If sending Israelis in and out of bomb shelters for nearly two weeks is a victory for Palestinian factions, so be it. Israelis came out virtually unscathed. Yet many serious challenges lie ahead. (May 24, 2021 / JNS) Over this past weekend, Arabs were shooting fireworks in the sky, supposedly in celebration of holding Israeli population centers hostage fo...

The Israeli companies taking a stand for coexistence The Israeli companies taking a stand for coexistence Many of Israel’s largest corporations have released public statements decrying violence and promoting the value of a shared society. Image by Lightspring via Shutterstock.com When a ceasefire halted 11 days of missile attacks launched by the Hamas terror group in Gaza on May 10, Israelis felt a sense of déjà vu. We’ve been through this cycle of deadly rocket fire, retaliation and truc...

Israel must immediately confiscate all illegal weapons Israel must immediately confiscate all illegal weapons The foremost and most pressing issue confronting Israel after the latest Gaza war is the tens of thousands of illegal weapons held by the country’s Arab citizens, especially criminal gangs. (May 23, 2021 / Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) Make no mistake about it: Among the many pressing challenges confronting Israel in the aftermath of the latest Gaza war, the most important...

'My Muslim workers feel the same way I do: They want to get back to work as fast as possible. It will be an answer to the villains who want to destroy coexistence.’

Még mindig érik rakétatámadások Izraelt, de a helyzet sokat konszolidálódott a május eleji állapotokhoz képest. Jeruzsálemben élő szerzőnk arról számol be, miként élte meg az elmúlt heteket a családjával.

From the blog of Mike Prashker at The Times of Israel