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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.

 People celebrate with Palestinian flags as they attend a demonstration in support of Palestinians in Gaza, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Oslo, Norway January 19, 2025.

Norway's largest trade union adopts BDS policy: A stain on a nation's values

 Hamas terrorists in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. February 20, 2025.

How Hamas used American Hostage Edan Alexander as a pawn

By Dr. Dan Diker
 Freed hostage Edan Alexander reunites with his family, March 12, 2025.

Israel cannot be seen as less interested in the return of the hostages than the US

 US Ambassador Mike Huckabee addresses the media outside the US Embassy in Jerusalem, May 9, 2025.

Donald Trump's behavior on the Middle East is erratic

By COOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN
 US President Donald Trump meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, DC.

Despite criticism, Trump's sidelining is still likely in Israel's interest

By JASON SILVERMAN
 THE HISTORIC Abraham Accords, signed in 2020, have already led to rapid growth in trade and cooperation in a wide range of areas from investment and innovation to food security and health.

California of the Middle East: The ‘Wild East’ vision for peace and security

 People wave flags as they rally in support of Pakistan Army, day after the ceasefire announcement between India and Pakistan, May 11, 2025

Trump reasserts US role in South Asia with ceasefire between India, Pakistan

By Hriday Sarma
 An illustrative image of the NSO Group logo on a smartphone.

In US, spyware has consequences: Pegasus to pay Meta punitive damages

By MICHAEL EHRENSTEIN
 Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes PA President Mahmoud Abbas to the Kremlin in Moscow during the 80th anniversary celebrations of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany, on May 10, 2025

Israel needs a miracle or a change of heart by Netanyahu

 Orly Noy from B'Tselem attends a lobby meeting entitled "Between occuption and Apartheid" in the Israeli parliament, June 22, 2021

Affirming our sovereignty: Taxing foreign political donations to Israeli ‘water carriers'

Israeli flag

Why Israel makes me smile: Reflections on life, culture, and connection

By HOLLY CIN
 An American battalion arrives in Ostersund, Sweden after driving across the border from Norway, to attend the Defence exercise Aurora 23, April 17, 2023.

American strength lies in preservation of history, not in destruction

 PROTESTERS DEMONSTRATE against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government near the Knesset last week. The sign in Hebrew reads: ‘To jail.’ Israelis must consider not just what they demand, but how those demands are expressed, the writer argues.

How Hamas exploits psychology to harm Israel from within and abroad

By IRWIN J. (YITZCHAK) MANSDORF
 US President Donald Trump holds a joint news conference at the White House with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, February 4, 2025

History will judge Netanyahu and Trump on whether they can keep US-Israel ties ironclad

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG meets with then-German chancellor Olaf Scholz during the Munich Security Conference last year. The newly-elected German government has a historic opportunity to chart the course for the next 60 years, says the writer.

Newly elected German gov't must act with courage to preserve relations with Israel

 BRITISH MP Kit Malthouse speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons last year. Last week, he posted on X: ‘A number of us have written to the prime minister calling for recognition of Palestine.’

Britain recognizing a Palestinian state would be grotesque, enshrine terror

 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump looks on as he makes remarks outside the West Wing of the White House last week. His recent moves in the Middle East are raising serious questions about his priorities when it comes to Israel, says the writer.

Israel must consider if it can rely on Trump whose choices seem driven by personal gain

By MICHAEL J. SALAMON
 Letters

Letters to the editor, May 12, 2025, Mendacious definition

 FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron welcomes Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the Élysée Palace in Paris last week.

Macron's eastward shift may spark Middle East anti-colonial revolt

By AMINE AYOUB
 French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa after a joint press conference after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, May 7, 2025.

Normalization between al Sharaa's Syria, Israel possible after decades of hostilities

 Pictures of hostages of hostages kidnapped in the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza, are attached to flowers in the garden of the Israeli embassy in London, Britain, March 7, 2024.

Feldman's return is great, but the hostages cannot wait another 40 years to be returned

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