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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.

SENAI GUEDALIA, widow of soldier Yosef Malachi Guedalia who was killed in the Kfar Aza area on October 7, marks her late husband’s 24th birthday and lights the first Hanukkah candle at his grave, at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Who is holy in the Jewish faith? - opinion

 Children in school are seen around a menorah ahead of Hanukkah.

Hanukkah: Jews should be proud of what they are hated for

 An illustrative image of an army in the ancient world fighting a powerful foe with elephants.

Hanukkah: Being outnumbered and holding strong is part of being Jewish

IRISH FOREIGN and Defense Minister Micheal Martin speaks at Dublin Castle. After the Hamas-perpetrated massacre on October 7, he expressed sorrow over the loss of life and called for a halt to the violence, but his condemnation was focused on demands for a ceasefire and humanitarian concerns in Gaza

Ireland’s anti-Israel actions will not go unanswered - opinion

By David Ben-Basat
SYRIA’S DE FACTO leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, attends a meeting with former rebel faction chiefs, in Damascus, on December 24.

Letter to a Syrian rebel (II): 'Your trauma and ours are different'

 ‘A POWERFUL reminder of the resilience and hope that dwell within us all.’ Yuval Haran, a resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, returned to his home this week and lit a hanukkiah that was retrieved from the rubble.

It shouldn't take a miracle for the hostages to come home - comment

A MODEL of a ‘United Nations of Jerusalem’ invites us to envision a binational entity where Israelis and Palestinians share voting rights while maintaining distinct national identities.

Editor's notes: Your ideas for solving the Israeli Palestinian conflict

THE VIBE shift can be seen as well as felt.

My Word: Vibes, vibrations, and tectonic shifts

 IDF SPOKESMAN Daniel Hagari speaks to the media, displaying an Iranian ballistic missile which was retrieved from the Dead Sea after Iran fired drones and missiles at Israel in April. The media must ask the tough questions, demand accountability, and avoid simply amplifying official narratives.

All of us in the media were complicit in October 7

 Former hostages speak at Tel Aviv's Hostage Square.

Bringing the hostages home should not be a playing card in this war

 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
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