70 Years of an Unyielding 3,330-Year Marriage - Breaking Israel News

70 Years of an Unyielding 3,330-Year Marriage By Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo This year’s Yom Ha’atzmaut commemorates the anniversary of a marriage that has lasted more than 3,000 years and has now completed its 70th year. An almost minor event on its own, but once seen in the larger picture, a milestone, and a miracle. This may sound like a paradox, but it is the inescapable truth about the Land of Israel and the Jews. No marriage has lasted so long and been as deep in its commitment and as overwhelming in its love as the one between the Jews and their homeland. The Future of Israel Looks Good By Dr. Efraim Inbar Time seems to be on Israel’s side. A review of the balance of power between Israel and its foes, and of the domestic features molding Israel’s national power (such as its economy, social cohesion, and political system), and of Israel’s standing in the international community, validates the assessment that Israel has the dominant hand for the foreseeable future.   Read » Time to Cut JVP Down to Size By Caroline Glick Despite the fact that its bigoted positions are rejected by just about everyone, this group, which the Anti-Defamation League has listed as “the largest and most influential Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the United States,” is becoming increasingly influential in the US. JVP is punching above its weight because the Jewish communal leadership is punching beneath its weight. It is time to correct this imbalance.   Read » Selling Illusions By Earl Cox One front of Hamas’s “March of Return” is a war of words – to project a sympathetic brand of the Palestinians as victims in order to influence global public opinion. While the terrorist group’s young recruits dress in kaffiyehs and sling Kalashnikovs over their shoulders, its leaders in coat and tie take their cues from leftist media and Madison Avenue’s finest – with techniques author William Safire calls “the gimmicky, slick use of the communications media to play on emotions.”   Read » Sponsored Content Syria Gets Us Farther from a Post-War Epoch By Sarah N. Stern Democracy might be the best form of government devised, but Russia, through the use of its proxies, has shown that it might want to regress to a period of Cold War alliances. And unfortunately, because sometimes the only way to eradicate pure evil—such as was on display this weekend in Douma—is through the use of military force, we are quite far from a post-war epoch.   Read » Donald Trump, Syria and the Prevention of Genocide By Louis Rene Beres Today, the relevant problem is that a proposed US military withdrawal from Syria, including an already-announced presidential order to freeze over $200 million in aid to that fractured country, would substantially strengthen Vladimir Putin’s hold over Bashar al Assad, and thereby further accelerate the Syrian dictator’s unambiguously genocidal policies. Read »

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