Ruthie Blum / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Ruthie Blum / JNS.org
Israel, Iran, and Trump: Behind the Rhetoric
JNS.org - Referring to a Talmudic dictum relating to self-defense, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video clip on Sunday morning, explaining the preemptive...
Netanyahu’s Carrot-and-Stick Policy on Gaza
JNS.org - Of all the criticism lobbed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu these days, the claim that he has been exercising restraint towards the...
May Dvir Sorek’s Legacy Be a Lesson
JNS.org - The slaughter last week of 19-year-old yeshivah student and Israel Defense Forces’ recruit Dvir Sorek from the Judea and Samaria community of Ofra...
Shameful Comparisons in the Name of Politics
JNS.org - Is it too much to ask of Israeli politicians that they take a pause before providing priceless ammunition to the Jewish state’s worst...
Schadenfreude and the UNRWA Scandal
JNS.org - Revelations of rampant wrongdoing in the corridors of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) couldn’t have shamed a...
Spitting in the Face of Cooperation with Israel
JNS.org - If further proof were needed to illustrate the futility of diplomatic overtures to the Palestinian Authority (PA), Monday’s attack on a pro-Israel Saudi...
Evan Cohen: Netanyahu’s Perfect Pick for Foreign Press Adviser
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday that he had appointed Dr. Evan Cohen -- founding chairman of Likud Pride, the party’s...
‘Lobstergate’ and Non-Kosher Coercion
JNS.org - In the midst of countrywide fury over two deadly serious issues -- the killing of an Ethiopian Israeli teenager by a police officer...
Ehud Barak, Yair Golan, and Israel’s ‘New Left’
JNS.org - Maj. Gen. (ret) Yair Golan, former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, is a gift to the left...
Erdogan’s Loss Is Israel’s Gain
JNS.org - When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared, during the lead-up to the country’s March 31 municipal elections, that “whoever wins Istanbul, wins Turkey,”...
An Ill-Deserved Assault on Ambassador David Friedman
JNS.org - Palestinian and leftist Jewish leaders called for America’s Israel ambassador to be fired for telling The New York Times in a recent interview that the Jewish...
Pompeo’s Justified Low Expectations for the Mideast Peace Plan
JNS.org - In a private meeting on May 28 with the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged...
The Mistake of Germany’s Bare-Headed Brouhaha
JNS.org - The outcry over remarks made on Saturday by the German government’s first-ever antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein, is peculiar. If Klein were not truthful...
Iran’s Proxy Wars Are the Real Problem
JNS.org - Sunday night’s landing of a Katyusha rocket less than half a mile from the US embassy in Baghdad was not merely the latest...
