Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Doran doesn’t foresee any changes, at least until after the U.S. presidential elections in November, saying “until then, we are frozen in place.”
Opinion
It’s important to recall certain episodes because they offer us an instructive lesson regarding the dangerous power of hate and dehumanization.
Ibrahim showed that modern jihadists “belonging to groups such as ISIS are well-versed in Islamic historic military jurisprudence” and the Koran and point to historical precedents to justify their violence and brutality.
Iran’s people deserve sympathy for their coronavirus suffering. But the regime that oppresses them and is still working on a dangerous nuclear program deserves none.
The coronavirus crisis has reminded us that we are small, that our knowledge is limited, and that we are not the masters of this world.
One “bright side” is that with plenty of “room at the Inn,” Israel has contracted with the national Dan Hotels to take over entire properties in which to house those infected but not (yet) in serious condition.
You don’t need a pandemic to be reminded of the viral rot that sometimes infects the political culture of a nation.
Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, who hasn’t slowed down during an extended campaign season, remains in office for the next 18 months. Israel is much better off for it.
Until Benny Gantz threw his political lot in with the right-wing coalition, it would be little exaggeration to say that the entire Zionist endeavor was poised on a knife edge.
As we all await anxiously to see where this global pandemic takes us and hope and pray that it will be behind us quickly, we can be reassured that, at least in Israel, there are countless individuals working to find a solution.
When it comes to the Muslim persecution of Christians, past and present, some things apparently never change.
Israel’s ability to protect itself today, and adapt its economy to the new post-global village reality will in large part determine how it survives and prospers in the post-global village world now taking shape.
Dr. Terrorist, in all her humanity, didn’t let go. “The thing about you is that you have actually not lived any of. Just sit behind a desk pasting articles. Big difference in fact from fiction.”
In spite of frustration with restrictions, fears about medical shortages and the desire to revive the economy, nothing can justify treating the lives of older persons as not worth saving.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin’s optimism regarding Israeli-Palestinian coexistence born out of the cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to combat the coronavirus is a pipe dream.
