Of all the falsehoods promulgated about the Middle East – and they are many – one of the most dogged and pernicious of all is the assertion that an immutable status quo exists on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Indeed, whenever Jews seek to exercise their fundamental right to freedom of worship on the Mount, as they did last week, the same tired platitudes are paraded about by the media and various world leaders to denounce such activity as a violation of the status quo.

Well, I hate to break it to them, but the Temple Mount status quo is nothing more than a myth, as anyone with access to Google can easily verify.

Here are the unvarnished facts.

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For American Jews still faithful to the Democratic Party, the writing is on the wall, and it has increasingly begun to look like antisemitic graffiti.

For decades, a majority of US Jews have loyally cast their ballots for the Democrats, irrespective of how much the party has been waffling on issues close to their hearts.

The time for change is long overdue.

For their own sake and for the sake of America and for Israel, American Jews need to embrace the Republican Party and make it their new political home.

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Jewish history over the past two millennia is rife with episodes of trauma and tragedy. Nearly every century, it seems, has seen Jews in various parts of the world massacred or expelled, forcibly converted, or oppressed.

The litany of horrors is so long, the suffering so unimaginable, that it is perhaps inevitable that our collective memory would fail to contain it all.

And yet, if we truly believe that every person is akin to a world unto himself, then we owe it to those who were murdered because they were Jews to salvage as much as we can about what befell them.

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As Israel's ground operations against Hamas in Gaza continue, an open question that remains unanswered is what will happen the day after the terrorist organization is eliminated.

Various proposals have been bandied about, one more unrealistic than the other, leaving the fate of the territory and its inhabitants uncertain.

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There is no other way to describe the outcome of the recent parliamentary elections in France, where the far-left bloc, dominated by an antisemite named Jean-Luc Melenchon, secured the largest number of seats in the National Assembly.

Indeed, the bitter irony is that French voters rejected Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front, which has discarded its antisemitic past, and instead chose the far-left New Popular Front (NPF), which has demonstrably failed to do the same.

This speaks volumes about the state of French society, and perhaps much of the Western world, where the hatred and slander of Jews is not automatically considered a disqualifying characteristic for anyone seeking higher office.

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