By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times Ramped up pro-Hamas, anti-Israeli rhetoric from communist China under leader Xi Jinping since Oct. 7, serves a higher domestic priority for Xi—the subjugation of Taiwan, on which so much of his reputation depends. In fact, China has little to lose and much to gain should […]
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Israel and the U.S. would both benefit from a transactional relationship. By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate Much is made of the $3.8 billion annual subsidy Israel’s military currently receives from the U.S. Little if anything is ever said of the far greater in-kind annual subsidy—estimated at tens of billions of dollars—that […]
By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate Israeli Jews are widely cast as colonists who immigrated to “Palestine” over the last century and then displaced Palestine’s indigenous Arabs. This narrative has things backward. The Jews are indigenous; the Arabs are the colonists. Israel and its capital Jerusalem were founded by King David, a […]
Iran will never allow the Palestinians to negotiate peace with Israel. By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate Apart from its own 780,000-strong armed forces, Iran has assembled a score of armed groups in countries neighboring Israel; all of which, like Iran, are committed to the eradication of the Jewish state. The United States, the European Union and others […]
A three-stage plan over the next decade or two could catapult Gaza into a manufacturing center and international trading hub. By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times Commentary The Biden administration for months has demanded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provide a vision for how Gaza would be governed and […]
By Patricia Adams and Lawrence Solomon | Published by The Epoch Times While Israel may retain control for the foreseeable future, Israel wants no part of Gaza. Its government left Gaza in 2005, taking with it every Jew residing in Gaza and even every Jew buried there. And Israel isn’t alone. Egypt also wants no […]
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Did Hamas succeed too well?
By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate If Iran’s goal in unleashing Hamas on Israel was scuttling the looming Saudi-Israeli peace deal, as is widely believed, it may have succeeded too well, raising the specter of an immediate backlash so severe as to threaten its grander, long-term plans for regional dominance and Israel’s […]
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The US is losing Israel
By Lawrence Solomon | Published by Jewish News Syndicate The mantras that “the U.S.-Israel relationship is rock solid” and “the U.S. has Israel’s back”—so often proclaimed in the breach by both countries—may be wearing thin in Israel. With the U.S. courting Iran while pulling back from its dominant role in the Middle East, China entering […]
Religious political parties in Israel’s governing coalition have faith in free markets.
Does Israel have a greater responsibility to “the international community” than to its own Druze population?