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Jerusalem Post's talented team of journalists provides insight into their work presented in the opinion section. This section highlights the beliefs and values that experienced writers who are witnessing the Middle East turmoil unfold. Their first hand encounters with world leaders have shaped their opinions and world views to be shared on this page.

 OECD representative meet with Finance Ministry officials, including Minister Bezalel Smotrich, on April 2, 2025.

Time to invest in Israel's economic future through meaningful social change

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media at NATO’s 75th anniversary summit in Washington last year. Turkey under Erdogan is no longer a NATO ally in spirit; it is a rogue state pursuing an expansionist, Islamist agenda that threatens stability, states the writer.

Erdogan's Turkey is the nerve centre of a broader Islamist resurgence

By AMINE AYOUB
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used the encrypted Signal app to discuss classified details of US military strikes in Yemen. He did not just break protocol; he shattered the foundation of trust that underlies both national and international security apparatuses, says the writer.

Signal leak tip of deeper institutional iceberg within US defense establishment

By MICHAEL J. SALAMON
 A military truck seen on top of a truck in traffic, on their way to the northern border with Lebanon, on Road 1, September 18, 2024

Invisible infrastructure is the base of social resilience during a crisis

By OMER WEINBERG
 Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and French President Emmanuel Macron shake hands during a joint news conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris last week. The hope that Beirut, and not the Bekaa Valley Hezbollah stronghold, will decide Lebanon’s future seems at long last plausible, says the writer.

Removing Beirut's Iran ties will help Lebanon return to Riviera status

By NAZEE MOINIAN
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio attend a news conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem in February. The writer asks: What if the US abandoned its long-standing support for Israel?

If the US abandons Israel, an Israeli-Kurdish alliance will enhance regional security

By LOQMAN RADPEY
 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump attend a joint news conference in the White House in February. Says the writer: Perhaps Trump can tell Netanyahu, ‘Bibi, I really can really empathize with your political problems, but you are undermining our negotiations with Hamas.'

Israel's security is America's security. Americans should not ignore that

The US Supreme Court building in Washington: If the court affirms the constitutionality of PSJVTA, the decision would open the door for dozens of terror victims to sue the PLO-PA in the US, says the writer.

Will the US Supreme Court hold PLO-PA accountable for 'Pay-for-Slay' policy?

By MAURICE HIRSCH
Jeffrey Goldberg:

Meet the Jewish journalist behind Signalgate

By STAN POLOVETS
Then-Israel Navy chief, V.-Adm. Eli Sharvit speaks at a ceremony in Haifa Naval Base, northern Israel, March 4, 2020

Shin Bet chief nomination chaos is symptomatic of a larger problem

 Letters

Letters to the Editor April 1 2025: Their dented honor

 A plenum session and a vote on reviving the Ultra Orthodox enlistment bill at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 11, 2024.

Why Judaism warns against unanimous decisions in government

By TOVA HERZL
 An illustrative image of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkey’s military expansion in Syria: A new threat to Israel’s security

By shay gal
 HOUTHI DEFENSE Minister Mohamed al-Atefi salutes after addressing protesters, predominantly Houthi supporters, as they demonstrate in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, in Sanaa, Yemen, last month.

Fall of the Houthis under US strikes: A racing certainty

 Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli seen at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on March 27, 2025

Fighting antisemitism beyond politics: Building alliances, not boycotting

 THE TRUSTEES GATE at George Washington University (Illustrative).

Dismal outlook: GW University senior doubtful campus antisemitism will be dealt with

By Sabrina Soffer
Birthright Israel participants

Birthright's rebirth: How the program has adapted post-October 7

By Doron Kornbluth
 A pregnant woman is seen alongside the Israeli flag in this illustrative image.

Oh, baby! Israel's high birth rate is a model for the West to emulate

ISRAAID VOLUNTEERS rescue refugees off the coast of Greece.

Israel's humanitarian efforts: Genocide perpetrators don’t aid other nations

By COOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN
 A SIGN reads ‘End Zionism’ at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington last year. Once there is broader global recognition that Judaism has transformed and Zionism has become its anchor, those carrying out attacks would be deterred, the writer argues.

The assault on Judaism: How Israel-bashing and anti-Zionism fuel global hatred

 Yotam Rabinovich (center) in Beilinson Hospital with his parents, Ilan (left) and Ilanit, after he sustained a serious injury.

Don’t deny the reality of profound autism

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