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The Real Reason Iran Hates Israel

The Gaza War has led to another debate about what motivates Iran’s ruling elite. Washington has proffered primarily one realist theme: The mullahs wanted to disrupt the diplomacy aimed at Israeli-Saudi normalization, so they helped Hamas unleash a war to awaken the Arab street. Confronted with popular anger, the Arab potentates, they thought, would retreat.But this ignores a fundamental motivation of Iran’s theocracy: anti-Semitism. At least three generations of radical Iranian clerics have viewed Israel as illegitimate, usurping sacred Islamic lands in the name of a pernicious ideology advanced by history’s most devilish and stubborn people. Using the language of French Marxism, they call Israel a Western “colonial-settler state,” and they believe Jews guide American imperialism in the M...

Israeli Control Is the Least Bad Option in Gaza

I visited Israel in late August 2005. It was a hot summer, and the political turmoil of the day made it hotter still. The Jewish state was in the throes of one of its more tortured sagas: the self-imposed and forced removal of its citizens from the Gaza Strip.The country was bitterly divided, not for the first or last time. The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had lost its majority and the confidence of his Likud Party’s rank-and-file. Forming a new party, Kadima, he joined with dovish opposition leader Shimon Peres and secured the required support for his “disengagement plan.” Among the plan’s opponents was then-Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who resigned from the government after his demand for a national referendum went unmet.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc....

‘Social’ Justice Is Injustice – WSJ

By Matthew Solomson and Tal FortgangWhen federal judges take the oath of office, they say: “I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich.” These words come from the Bible and reflect a key principle of justice in the American tradition, shaped by our Judeo-Christian heritage: Justice isn’t about power. Whether a party is right or wrong in a dispute doesn’t depend on that person’s identity and social station.For a long time, Americans have stood by that idea, considering it obvious. A powerful person could be regarded as a good guy or a bad guy depending on how he amassed and used his power. A powerless person might be virtuous or evil depending on how he dealt with his circumstances. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All...