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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.

 EGYPT’S PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah at a summit on the Gaza war, last month in Cairo: Given the repercussions for key actors including Egypt and Jordan, the potential of an international peace conference after the war should be explored, the writer maintains.

Arab leaders talk big on Palestine—but where’s the real support?

 A PROTEST march takes place in Tel Aviv last week, with the call for an immediate release of the hostages. The ‘now’ demand has been prominent in speeches, online messaging, banners, and posters in connection with the hostages taken by Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza, the writer notes.

Releasing hostages 'now' is not in Israel's interest

 MIKE HUCKABEE attends a Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, in 2021. The appointment by US President Donald Trump of Huckabee, an Evangelical Christian and vocal supporter of Israel, as ambassador to Jerusalem underscores the pro-Israel orientation of this administration

The clear and urgent need for Evangelical trips to Israel

 American Jewish World War II veterans Don Golde (right), Cy Mermelstein (left), and Shep Waldman (center) stand next to the barbed wire fence of the concentration camp at the 62nd memorial of the liberation in Dachau on May 13, 2007.

Holocaust survivors like me have not only endured but thrived

By NATE LEIPCIGER
 SYRIAN FOREIGN Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani (right) attends a news conference with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud in Damascus last week. The new Syrian leaders have not fully adopted the Afghan model, though social media debates about their past still continue,

HTS are aiming to create Taliban-style Sharia government

 Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, Liri Albag and Karina Ariev.

The system betrayed our female surveillance soldiers

 IRIT ALONI, head of the NATAL clinical unit, holds a therapy session.

Society will play a crucial role in released hostages mental health healing

By RIKI MEIRI
The site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II-Birkenau

We need to take responsibility for Holocaust survivors before it's too late

By INBAL COHEN-TUVAL
JUSTICE MINISTER Yariv Levin and Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara attend a farewell ceremony for retiring acting Supreme Court president Uzi Vogelman, last October. Levin has been appropriately adamant that Justice Yitzhak Amit’s case should be investigated, the writer maintains.

We just witnessed the Supreme Court's breathtaking hypocrisy

AN ISRAELI military vehicle crosses through the ceasefire line with Syria on the Golan Heights. One can understand the support for a permanent IDF presence in Gaza, southern Lebanon, and the Syrian Golan even if these areas are not ours, holding them is seen as vital to our security, says the writer

Israel must reject territorial expansion after the war

By ASIF EFRAT
 Hamas terrorists parade as they prepare to hand over hostages.

A ‘victory’ in branding: Hamas is solidifying its narrative with the ceasefire agreement

By Eran Lahav
AMERICAN AND ISRAELI flags fly during a demonstration in support of Israel at the US Capitol in 2002.

Stakes for Israel’s new ambassador to US have rarely been higher

 Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks, conceding 2024 U.S. presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump, at Howard University in Washington, U.S., November 6, 2024.

How Kamala Harris ended a political career with just one line

By GREGORY LYAKHOV
 LEFT TO right: Emily Damari, Romi Gonen, and Doron Steinbrecher were released from captivity last week. Anyone with a heart was moved beyond words at their return home, but for the heartless genocidal Hamas barbarians who kidnapped them, human tragedy is the strategy, the writer asserts.

It isn't a hostage 'deal,' it's extortion of Israeli souls

THE BORDER fence cuts across the arid landscape. Looking north, Egypt and the Sinai Desert are to the left of the fence and Israel and the Negev Desert lie on its right.

Sinai is the answer: The bold plan to solve Gaza’s crisis

By YARON SCHWARTZ
 Letters

Letters to the Editor, January 29, 2025: Will of the people

American and Israeli Jews [Illustrative]

The world won't sympathize with Jews, even in our darkest hour

By SOPHIA TUPOLEV-LUZ
 A FREED Palestinian prisoner holds a weapon as he is carried after his release by Israel as part of the hostage deal, in Khan Yunis, last Saturday. We face vile murderers who scorn human life, individuals who planned attacks and killed dozens, including infants, families, young men, and women, the

Hostages returning home brings a range of emotions for Israelis

By IDIT DRUYAN OHAYON
 A freed Palestinian prisoner is carried by people after he was released by Israel as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, January 25, 2025.

The Hamas prisoner release is a justification for death penalty for terrorists

 US SEN. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) speaks at a news conference at the US Capitol last year. His questions last week during the Senate confirmation hearing of Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the UN inadvertently challenged Israel’s right to exist, the writer argues.

The western assault on Judaism will have a lasting impact on Congress

 JUSTICE ISAAC AMIT was lawfully chosen as president of the Supreme Court, as a majority of the members of the Judicial Selection Committee supported his selection as required by law, the writer states.

The minister who refuses to cooperate will cause the public to suffer

By GUY LURIE
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