The promoters of these unconventional policies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump, are both despised by their respective establishments and under constant threat of removal by their livid political opponents.

Yet they both have transformed their respective countries. Their policies remind us that it is sometimes preferable to be respected rather than just be liked — and that when a nation is strong and does not beg for help, it often finds more than it needs.

Amman had no right to summon Israel's ambassador to Jordan over supposed "violations" on the Temple Mount. The Hashemite Kingdom needs to be reminded that we Jews have worshipped there for over 3,000 years.

Where did the idea that we can "divorce" the Palestinians come from? Commanders for Israel's Security – an Israeli movement founded by former senior security officials and military generals – is responsible for coining this concept. But military generals, as high up as they were, may be good at orchestrating military operations but they are obviously not so good at foreseeing the future or analyzing history.

A recent article that appeared in the March 28 Wall Street Journal, “The Two Americas Have Grown Much Fiercer”, by Peggy Noonan, is part of an editorial trend of late decrying the divided state of America in these times.  As is typical in these pieces, the author does not place the onus for our fractured state on one side or the other, but instead promotes a theme of “Can’t we all just get along?” From the point of view of the “Trumpian” camp, this writer is here to reply with a resounding “no”, at least not until the core issue that motivates the tens of millions of Americans who support our sitting President is addressed

A successful pursuit of peace is preconditioned upon the predominance of reality over well-intentioned eagerness to produce peace. The latter is frequently tainted by oversimplification, short-term considerations and wishful-thinking.

The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton campaign’s use of funds to create, disseminate among court media, and then salt among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier failed.

So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump presidency failed. There are many elements to what in time likely will become recognized as the greatest scandal in American political history, marking the first occasion in which U.S. government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president

Unilateral disengagement from the West Bank, which Israeli PM candidate Benny Gantz seems to support, would have far-reaching adverse implications for Israel in the security, economic, social, infrastructural, and ecological spheres.

לא נעלם מכל מתבונן ישראלי שמעורה בנעשה במדינה, מי אלה שחשים הזדהות עם המדינה היהודית ותורמים לביטחונה, ומדברים בעדה בכל פורום בארץ ובחו"ל; ומנגד, מי חורש לה רעות וצרות. ההצבעה בעד החוק איננה בשום פנים הצבעה נגד בעלי ברית וותיקים שמוסיפים כבוד וכוח למדינה ומאבקה להישרדות וצמיחה. בנימה מבודחת, אומר, לא הבעתי איבה לכלל הנשים כשבחרתי באשתי.

מנהיגי המדינה לא צריכים להתנצל שחוקקו חוק שתכליתו להשתית את המדינה באופן בלעדי על הלאומיות היהודית בארץ ישראל. השמים לא נפלו, הבשורה בכפלי התקומה הפלאית תשודר בגאון, וקיבוץ גלויות יקרין את ייחודו של עם ישראל בשובו הביתה. החוק הוא סיבה לחגיגה, לא פילוג או השמצה כפי שגורמים משמאל ומרכז המיטו על מעשה החקיקה ב-29 ביולי השנה.

The onus has been shifted, and previous understandings swept aside. Israelis must respond with imagination and magnanimity and Palestinians with the recognition that this is not 1948, 1967 or 1993. The Unrwa decision is a new opportunity, and Palestinians should embrace it.