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Shlomo Slonim

The writer is a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of South West Africa and the United Nations.
Jews demonstrate against the White Paper in Jerusalem, May 22, 1939.

Purim’s lesson: The White Paper showed why Jews must defend themselves - opinion

Unlike in the story of the Megillah and during the Holocaust, Jews are presently defending their homeland, the country that was promised to their forefathers.

MARCH 15, 2025
A DRONE view shows Damascus city at night, after the ousting of Bashar Assad, in Syria, earlier this week. Israel took immediate steps to prevent instruments of war from falling into enemy hands, the writer explains.

Israel's preemptive actions in Syria: Lessons from Churchill's World War II strategy - opinion

By disabling significant parts of Syria's military, Israel’s swift action has prevented Syria from becoming a wholesale distributor of weapons of war.

DECEMBER 19, 2024
A DAY after the 2016 US presidential election, in which Hillary Clinton received close to 2.9 million more votes than Donald Trump but lost based on the electoral count, Clinton addresses staff and supporters at a hotel in Manhattan.

Understanding the Electoral College and its impact on US elections - opinion

It remains to be seen at next week’s election if the Electoral College outcome will differ from the popular vote yet again. 

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

A letter to John Dugard: Time to recognize Hamas's violations of int'l law - opinion

John, it is not too late for you, as an authority on international law, to seek to promote the principles of that code regarding Hamas while there is still time.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
SOUTH AFRICAN legal team leader John Dugard attends an ICJ session on emergency measures against Israel, following accusations by South Africa that the IDF operation in Gaza is a state-led genocide, in The Hague, in January.

UN Security Council chooses to appease Hamas over eliminating terrorism - opinion

The UN blunders when it imagines that the majority of Israelis will condone the destructive design of Hamas terror. The UN should strive for peace, not its reverse. 

MAY 11, 2024
THE UN Security Council votes in favor of Resolution 2728, in March. The US abstained.

Israel democracy, judicial review: The Brutus-Hamilton debate - opinion

Those opposing restoration of Knesset authority are forgetting not only Israeli history but American history as well.

MARCH 20, 2023
CONSTITUTION, LAW and Justice Committee Chairman MK Simcha Rothman tries to maintain order during a committee session last week.

Derecognition is a serious matter in diplomatic relations - opinion

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese canceled Australia's recognition of any part of Jerusalem as the heart of Israel and its capital.

NOVEMBER 15, 2022
AUSTRALIA’S PRIME MINISTER Anthony Albanese: His pronouncement in canceling his country’s recognition of western Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was offensive, says the writer

There are no settlements in Jerusalem - opinion

Then-senator Frank Lautenberg stated that there are no settlements in Jerusalem in 1991.

MARCH 23, 2022
THE MUGHRABI Bridge that leads to the Temple Mount compound with the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock seen in the background in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Begin and Jerusalem at Camp David

The issue of Jerusalem at the last minute nearly capsized the entire peace agreement with Egypt at Camp David over 40 years ago.

NOVEMBER 20, 2021
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar Sadat greet each other at their first meeting at the Camp David summit as US president Jimmy Carter looks on in September 1978.

Antony Blinken's Senate hearing was misunderstood - opinion

Blinken’s presentation before the Senate committee was a more realistic assessment of the current situation in Israeli-Palestinian relations

FEBRUARY 3, 2021
US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken removes his face mask before holding his first press briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC, on January 27.

The fallacy that is the 1967 line that divided Israel and the West Bank

On May 20, 1967, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran and proclaimed "these waters are ours... the Israeli flag shall not go through the Gulf of Aqaba."

JULY 17, 2020
IDF Soldiers arrive at the Temple Mount during the Six Day War in June of 1967. A few months later, the Arab League met, declaring, ‘No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it.’

Israeli sovereignty as a forerunner of Palestinian self-determination

Whether this means a state or some other political entity remains to be seen, but a separate political existence for the Palestinian Arabs seems to be in the offing.

JULY 2, 2020
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) greets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Monroe Room of the State Department in Washington September 2, 2010.

Harry Truman and the cause of Jewish statehood

Truman acted on behalf of the Jews in the creation of the State of Israel decisively at critical moments when his action made all the difference.

JUNE 14, 2020
ISRAEL’S FIRST president Chaim Weizmann presents US president Harry Truman with a Torah in 1948.