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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.

IDF female combat soldiers.

Empowered women: Female IDF trailblazers mark historic achievements in defense

 PROF. ALON SAMACH of the Hebrew University’s  Agriculture Faculty examines passion fruit plants at the campus greenhouse, in Rehovot, 2017. The faculty discovered that a species of the fruit can help cure Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.

How gut health and lifestyle habits could prevent Parkinson’s disease

By ALAN FREISHTAT
 KENNETH ROTH, then-executive director of Human Rights Watch, speaks at the UN, in 2020. In the propaganda marketing strategy perfected by Roth, NGOs surround themselves with a halo effect based on false images of altruistic, benevolent, and apolitical neutral actors on the world stage.

Human rights hypocrisy: 'Forced displacement' in, Hamas out

By GERALD M. STEINBERG
 IRAN’S AMBASSADOR Amir Saeid Iravani speaks with diplomats after a UN Security Council meeting.

Trump is taking cue from Nixon’s Madman Theory in his Iran approach

 The flag of Israel in the blue sky stock image.

Israel must start saying 'no' to most invidious issues that seek to delegitimize identity

 THE FUNERAL takes place for Maj. (res.) Nael Fwarsy in the Druze village of Maghar, in September. He was killed in a Hezbollah drone attack in northern Israel.

Druze society demands civil equality to match their heroes military sacrifice

By AMIR KHNIFESS
 US PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump speaks at an America First Policy Institute gala last week at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

Overcoming the Trump divide: A Jewish call for unity and understanding

 YOUNG OLIM who made aliyah with Youth Aliya Israel 1951

Should Israel loosen immigration rules amid rising antisemitism?

By COOKIE SCHWEBER-ISSAN
 A BILLBOARD with a picture of former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is displayed on a building in Tehran. Speculation about Hamas’s collapse intensified with the absence of a unified leadership after Sinwar’s death, says the writer.

Post-war Gaza: Can Hamas maintain its grip amid destruction?

 US PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump meets with House Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington, last week. It is difficult to tell how Trump will react if Israel will fail to end the current war on its various fronts by the time he enters office, says the writer.

The US and Middle East under Trump 2.0 must look better than under Trump 1.0

By Elias Zananiri/The Media Line

Oslo's environmental, feminine choice, 20 years later - opinion

By CARMIT LUBANOV
 THEN-US PRESIDENT Donald Trump hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as the foreign ministers of Bahrain (left) and the UAE, at the signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House, September 15, 2020.

President-elect Donald Trump is poised to pick up where he left off

By JUDAH WAXELBAUM
 Havasu City Mayor Cal Sheehy with the author and his sons, as part of the year-long emissary mission ‘Agents of Hope’ across North and Central America.

Water diplomacy during the Abraham Accords: Building trust through shared resources

By NOAM BEDEIN
 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the Abraham Accords in 2020. US policies will paralyze the regime in Iran, the writer says.

Trump’s intelligence community and Iran’s regime change

By ERFAN FARD
 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Prof. Shai Davidai at a pro-Israel rally in Manhattan last month. Jewish scholars have long been targets of antisemitism, the writer states.

Hamas supporters vs advancement of knowledge

 NEWLY ELECTED members of the US Congress pose for a photo on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, last week. Eighty-eight Democratic Congress members signed a letter to President Joe Biden, promoting the European-sponsored fable of settler violence.

Dangerous escalation: The assault on Judaism penetrates US Congress

 Gideon Sa'ar, Foreign Affairs Minister, March 28, 2024.

Sa'ar, your mission, should you choose to accept it: Save Israeli diplomacy

 FORMER ISRAELI ambassador to the US Ron Dermer attends a special 2022 session of the Knesset. Dermer famously stated that it was better to cultivate Evangelicals than Jews because they are more numerous and they criticize Israel less, the writer points out.

An open letter to Israel’s new ambassador to the US

By TOVA HERZL
 BAHRAINI PALACE Guard stands near an El Al airplane that carried an Israeli delegation and the US treasury secretary to Muharraq, Bahrain, in 2020. The writer suggests that the airline has turned its back on the very soldiers who fight for our survival.

Is Israel’s national airline profiteering?

 PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS in the West Bank, last month. Israel’s establishment media exacerbates the problem, consistently amplifying voices that urge Israel to capitulate, the writer points out.

Israel’s deep-state problem: Undermining Bibi and preventing victory

By AVI ABELOW
 PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS in the West Bank, last month. Israel’s establishment media exacerbates the problem, consistently amplifying voices that urge Israel to capitulate, the writer points out.

Israel’s deep-state problem: Undermining Bibi and preventing victory

By AVI ABELOW
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