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Averting ayatollah's atomic Auschwitz: The US, Israel should bomb Iran now

April 4, 2025  •  Jerusalem Post

Over the past few decades, various efforts have been made to prevent Iran from building a nuclear arsenal, whether through international diplomacy and deals or economic sanctions.

But despite the countless hours and untold energy devoted by the US and others, the tyrants of Tehran are now reportedly within reach of their goal.

They must be stopped at all costs before it is too late.

On March 26, US Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, commander of the US Strategic Command, told a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington that if the Iranian regime chooses to, it could produce enough weapons-grade uranium for a nuclear device in less than a week.

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It is time for Israel to achieve a total victory in Gaza

March 21, 2025  •  Jerusalem Post

Nearly 18 months have passed since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre and, despite Israel's impressive achievements against the terrorist group, the cold, hard truth is that the war is far from over.

This salient fact was underlined earlier this week by several revelations about the terrorist group's renewed strength and determination to perpetrate further atrocities, which highlight why Israel has at last resumed taking much more aggressive measures to achieve victory.

Shortly after Oct. 7, it was estimated that Hamas had up to 30,000 terrorists in its ranks – some 20,000 of whom, including many of its senior leaders, have been killed in the fighting since then.

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Back to the future in Gaza: Time to end the experiment of expelling Jews for peace

March 1, 2025  •  Jerusalem Post

What a difference 20 years can make.

It was precisely two decades ago this month, on February 20, 2005, that the cabinet, under then-prime minister Ariel Sharon, voted 17-5 to uproot thousands of Jews from their homes in Gaza in what the media euphemistically referred to as the "Disengagement Plan."

Six months later, defying strategic logic, Jewish history, and basic morality, as well as common sense, Israel pulled out of Gaza and turned it over to our enemies, setting the stage for the eventual Hamas takeover and all the horrors that followed.

A total of 21 Jewish communities were destroyed, and their 10,000 residents were forced to leave the lives, businesses, and homes they had struggled so heroically to build.

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Stop calling it the West Bank. Start calling it Judea and Samaria

February 8, 2025  •  Jerusalem Post

Last week, a potentially historic bill was introduced to the US Congress, one that could lay the groundwork for a momentous and long-awaited change in American policy toward Israel.

On January 31, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY, 24th District), alongside Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), submitted the RECOGNIZING Judea and Samaria Act (capitalized in its official name), which would require all official US government documents to use the term "Judea and Samaria" rather than the "West Bank."

The pair had originally put forward the proposed legislation in December, toward the end of the 118th Congress, and have now resubmitted it after the 119th Congress commenced its term in January.

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Israel should annex all of Mount Hermon from Syria

January 10, 2025  •  Jerusalem Post

Early last month, shortly after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, Israel took a step that dramatically altered the strategic landscape of the entire region.

Quietly and without any prior indications, the IDF entered the buffer zone on the Golan Heights separating Israel and Syria and liberated the highest peak of Mount Hermon, raising the blue-and-white banner over the tallest mountain in either country.

And while Israeli officials were quick to insist that the move was temporary, it would be a grave mistake to forgo this territory.

For both strategic and historical reasons, the Jewish state should annex all of the newly acquired parts of Mount Hermon and formally incorporate them into Israel.

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