Opinion

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.

 THE ‘CORDELIA MOON’ oil tanker bursts into flames after being hit in a Houthi missile attack off Ye

Redesignating Houthis as terrorists was a decisive reversal of Biden's policy failures

The Houthis hijack ships, keep hostages for over a year, and threaten global trade – if that doesn’t meet the definition of terrorism, what does? 

By GREGORY LYAKHOV
12/02/2025
 SHELLY SHEM TOV, mother of hostage Omer Shem Tov, makes her case at a meeting of the Knesset Consti

The fight to bring home the hostages is a fight for justice, dignity, and humanity

We must remain steadfast in our demand for the safe return of every last hostage. We owe it to their families. We owe it to our values. And we owe it to our humanity.

By SHIRLY PINTO-KADOSH
12/02/2025
 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump speaks, as he hosts Republican senators for a dinner at Mar-a-Lago in Pal

Big problems require great leaps of creativity

CENTER FIELD: Trump’s Gaza proposal sparked global outrage, but is it truly unthinkable, or just an overdue challenge to the status quo?

12/02/2025

‘Making deals that can be wins’ - Trump's business-oriented policies in the legacy of Reagan

Releasing the hostages, eradicating Hamas, rehabilitating and developing Gaza while winning support of Gazans - is it possible?

By SHRAGA BIRAN
11/02/2025

Shlomo Mantzur's murder proves the spirit of the Farhud is truly alive

Scheduled to be released during the first stage of the hostage deal between Hamas and Israel, it emerged on Tuesday that Shlomo Mantzur was killed on October 7.

Hamas's refusal to release the hostages is playing into Netanyahu's hands

If Netanyahu wants to renew the fighting in Gaza, then Hamas reads the mood in the Israeli leadership and political echelon very well.

By GADI HITMAN
11/02/2025

Israel must return to the premise of equal support

One of the things that makes Israel great is its human quality. We must pull on those strings and find our way back to those roots because it seems we have forgotten what this project is all about.

 HOSTAGE ELI SHARABI is released by Hamas terrorists this past Saturday. While comparisons to the Ho

The West is enabling Hamas’s propaganda and the hostages are paying the price

Hamas’s propaganda is fooling the West, whitewashing its brutality while Israeli hostages endure starvation and torture. The world must stop enabling their lies.

Israel and US must cut Hamas off from Tehran

Israel and US must exert maximum effort to prevent Iran from rebuilding Hamas, or risk erasing IDF's achievements in the war and enabling the Hamas terrorists to carry out another massacre.

By YOSSI MANSHAROF
11/02/2025
 HAMAS TERRORISTS hug each other as members of the International Red Cross watch during the handover

Good people instinctively see the evil of Hamas

ABOVE THE FOLD: When the media draws parallels between Hamas’s demands to release prisoners who are convicted mass-murderers and the release of hostages, it is infuriating.

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