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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.

 Environmental crime (illustrative)

How fighting terrorism can contribute to security and the environment

SCALES OF JUSTICE decorate the International Criminal Court building in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2019.

Israel will defend itself at the ICJ - editorial

 RELEASED HOSTAGES and families of Israelis still held still held by Hamas in Gaza hold a news conference in kibbutz Be'eri this week

Hamas might be getting what it wants - opinion

 THE JUSTICES hold a High Court hearing on petitions against the reasonableness standard law, in September.

Israeli courts keep politics balanced - opinion

By SUZIE NAVOT
 Pro-Palestinian students take part in a protest in support of the Palestinians amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at Columbia University in New York City, U.S., October 12, 2023.

News about antisemitism on campus is scary, but doesn't draw the full picture - opinion

By TAMAR WEISS
 A MILITARY vehicle patrols near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on the first day of 2024. It certainly wasn't the best of times, but 2023 could could go down as the worst, especially if you lived in Israel, says the writer.

An incomplete list of winners & losers 2023 - opinion

 IDF SOLDIERS stand guard while Palestinians and left-wing activists protest near the Jewish settlement of Elon Moreh, east of Nablus, in 2022

Labeling Jews as 'settler-colonialists' flips the truth - opinion

Torah scroll 521

Does the Torah have multiple authors? - opinion

IRANIAN PRESIDENT Ebrahim Raisi attends the Tehran International Conference on Palestine, in Tehran, last month.

Threats from Iran are tame, but not empty - opinion

 The Jerusalem Post and its sister newspaper, Maariv.

Will Israeli media ever feature a Gaza resident's personal column? - opinion

By AMIT SLONIM
 The High Court hearing of the government's judicial reform reasonableness bill on September 12, 2023

Let's finish our enemies before returning to judicial reform debate

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Ma’aleh Adumim mayor Benny Kashriel attend a Likud meeting in Ma’aleh Adumim, in 2017.

Italy opposes Israeli ‘settlers’ even though it has its own

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv, last week. ‘Israel’s government failed systemically, flamboyantly, from the coalition’s inception. Yet, Zionism did not fail on October 7,’ says the writer.

Zionism: Still helping Jews to save themselves

 THE WRITER addresses The Jerusalem Post London Conference in 2022.

What does it mean for Israel to be united?

 A FOREIGN worker is employed in agriculture near the border with the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing war.

Action is needed to build up and strengthen Israel's periphery regions

 HAMAS GAZA head Yahya Sinwar meets with then-president of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer, in Gaza City, in 2017. Patience has sustained the hatred of the Hamas terrorists for Israel and their belief that they will one day destroy the Jews.

In battle of the free world against forces of evil, we must be patient

By FRED NAIDER
 Letters

Letters to the Editor, January 3, 2024: Worldwide moral code

 Palestinians break into the Israeli side of Israel-Gaza border fence after Hamas terrorists infiltrated areas of southern Israel, October 7, 2023.

Many 'unaffiliated' with Hamas in Gaza still guilty of terrorism

By IDAN ROLL
 THE JOINT Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit in Riyadh, in November: Morocco, together with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, Mauritania, Djibouti, Jordan, and Egypt, blocked a proposal to cut ties with Israel.

Abraham Accords will outlast Gaza war

 A SECURITY member takes away a keffiyeh and Palestinian flag from a pro-Palestinian demonstrator during the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, in New York City.

The left turned its back on Jews, time for a new pro-Israel coalition - opinion

By PESACH WOLICKI
 IDF forces fighting in the Gaza Strip, December 31, 2023

What will happen to Gaza once the war is complete? - editorial

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