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“Stop acting like the benign ocean water that fuels the hurricane passing overhead. Instead, be the hurricane.”
“What if we decided that widespread antisemitism had irreparably ruined these universities and their once-lofty reputations?”
“It’s precisely this moment, as the medieval commentator Nahmanides asserts, that we need to maintain the moral stamina to avoid the evil excesses of wartime behavior.”
“When our sovereignty was restored after two millennia, we had a moral and ethical foundation upon which to build.”
“I wake up every morning in a community located less than a mile from Gaza and drop off my daughters at a bombproof kindergarten.”
“Our pain must show us that there is no war against one part of us that isn’t a war on all of us.”
In the first installment of a new series, an IDF reservist shares a near-daily account of his experiences at the front.
“It is not Israel that is the weak link in the chain. It is almost everybody else.”
“We are in the paradoxical situation, as a people who love peace, of saying to the world, ‘We must wreak more destruction.’”
A SAPIR Conversation with FDD Senior Fellow Reuel Marc Gerecht