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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.

 Man carrying a Soviet Union flag.

Follow Soviet hero Kuznetsov's example: Resist forces seeking to strip Jewish ties to Israel

 Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to pro-Kremlin journalist Vladimir Sovolyov, March 2024.

Selective moral outrage causes double standard across Middle East

 US REPRESENTATIVE Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is applauded by US House Speaker Mike Johnson during a meeting with House Republicans in Washington, last week. President-elect Donald Trump has named Stefanik the next US ambassador to the UN, among other pro-Israel cabinet choices.

Is Trump picking the best personnel possible?

 US PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump and secretary of state-designate Marco Rubio attend a campaign event before last month’s presidential election. ‘Israeli officials have told me privately that they cannot wait for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to be replaced by Marco Rubio,’ says the writer.

Trump making Middle East safer since election landslide

NIREL ZINI and Niv Raviv, who were planning to marry, were murdered in this Kibbutz Kfar Aza home on October 7, 2023. The writer condemns reporter Charita Goshay for depicting Hamas as thwarted peace activists forced into violence by Israel.

Palestinian antisemitism is now spreading across the US

ISRAEL’S AMBASSADOR to the US, Michael Herzog, shared that the hanukkiah seen here, ceremoniously lit at the embassy in Washington last week, had been found under the rubble of a destroyed home in Kibbutz Be’eri, which was taken over by Hamas terrorists on the dark day of October 7.

Students need to take 'leap of faith' just like the Maccabees

By Sabrina Soffer
 CHAIRMAN OF The Jewish Agency, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Doron Almog, (front, second from left) alongside the writer, greets olim from France who arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport during the war.

The connection between Israel and the Diaspora will be our legacy of light

By MARK WILF
 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the opening of ‘SHOAH: The Permanent Exhibition in Block 27,’ at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, in 2013.

Arresting Netanyahu on an Auschwitz anniversary would be a blight on modern-day Poland

By STEVEN BURG
Hanukiah at the Western Wall

We need to find the crack in the darkness

 Joseph Massad, Columbia University website

End this moral distortion: Academia has lost its way if Jews are not safe

By SIVAN KOREN
 A LAWN SIGN reading, ‘End the genocide in Gaza’ is seen in Michigan in November 2024.

Hanukkah 2024: The 'new morality' of public opinion is the 'old immorality' of the Greeks

By LEO DEE
 HTS LEADER Abu Mohammed al-Julani (right), meets with Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt in Damascus.

No sanctions relief for Syria until HTS proves it is done with jihadism

 IDF TROOPS in Cyprus this week simulate a military campaign deep inside Lebanese territory against Hezbollah.

Zionism and togetherness: The secret to making modern day Maccabees

 THE WRITERS take questions from the audience after a screening of ‘Tragic Awakening: A New Look at the Oldest Hatred,’ in New York City.

This Hanukkah, ‘May the bridges we burn light the way’

By RAPHAEL SHORE , LIZZY SAVETSKY
 Letters

Letters to the Editor December 25, 2024: It goes deeper

 ISRAEL’S AMBASSADOR to the United Nations Danny Danon attends a UN Security Council meeting following Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel in October.

Hanukkah Part II: The continuation of the fight to negate Judaism as an idea

 Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, is seen in Damascus, Syria, on December 23, 2024.

HTS's Julani is not a pragmatist, but a sophisticated strategist

By MOSHE FUZAYLOV
 The "National Menorah" in Washington, D.C.,  Dec. 6, 2023.

8 candles, 80 opinions: The many meanings of an American Hanukkah

By Rabbi Leon A. Morris
 Meirav Leshem Gonen.

'Every person is a light': A hostage mother's message this Hanukkah

By MEIRAV LESHEM GONEN
 CROWDS GATHER outside American University of Beirut Medical Center after thousands of Hezbollah operatives were wounded when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, on Tuesday.

The 'Pager Plot' shows that when Israel is pushed, it will do whatever it takes to win

 EUROPEAN COMMISSION President Ursula von der Leyen and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speak as EU leaders gather for a group photo at a summit meeting in Brussels, last week.

Europe can succeed in an uncertain world, but it has to rethink the way it operates

By MARIA VASSALOU
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