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Por qué Israel debería anexar todo el Monte Hermón de Siria - análisis de opinión

Jan 14, 2025 | jpost.com | Michael Freund

A principios del mes pasado, poco después de la caída del régimen de Assad en Damasco, Israel dio un paso que alteró drásticamente el panorama estratégico de toda la región. Silenciosamente y sin indicaciones previas, las FDI ingresaron a la zona de amortiguamiento en los Altos del Golán que separan a Israel y Siria y liberaron el pico más alto del Monte Hermón, izando la bandera azul y blanca sobre la montaña más alta de ambos países.
Israel should annex all of Mount Hermon after Assad's fall in Syria

Jan 11, 2025 | jpost.com | Michael Freund

Early last month, shortly after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, Israel took a step that dramatically altered the strategic landscape of the entire region. Quietly and without any prior indications, the IDF entered the buffer zone on the Golan Heights separating Israel and Syria and liberated the highest peak of Mount Hermon, raising the blue-and-white banner over the tallest mountain in either country.
Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire has set the stage for a Fourth Lebanon War - opinion

Dec 6, 2024 | jpost.com | Michael Freund

Leaving Hezbollah in place to regroup and rebuild, and abandoning the territory in southern Lebanon adjacent to Israel’s northern border, are merely setting the stage for the fourth Lebanon war. Last week, Israel made one of its gravest strategic mistakes since the war began on Oct. 7 last year.
Der fast vergessene autokratische Stadtplaner von New York City

Dec 2, 2024 | diepresse.com | Michael Freund

Robert Moses war kein Politiker. Er wurde weder in New York City noch im Staat New York je in ein Amt gewählt, hatte keine Ausbildung als Stadtplaner, Architekt oder Ingenieur. Doch in seiner vier Jahrzehnte währenden Karriere, von den 1920er-Jahren an, veränderte er die Infrastruktur der Metropole mehr als jeder der Bürgermeister und Gouverneure, mit denen er zu tun hatte.
El sur del Líbano en realidad es el norte de Israel

Nov 18, 2024 | jpost.com | Michael Freund

Mientras las FDI luchan por limpiar el sur del Líbano de terroristas de Hezbolá, vale la pena destacar un hecho histórico intrigante, que muchos parecen haber olvidado. Al haber crecido con una frontera internacional entre el estado judío y nuestros vecinos del norte, damos por sentado que así ha sido siempre y debería ser.
Michael Freund on southern Lebanon's history of belonging to the Jews

Nov 17, 2024 | jpost.com | Michael Freund

As the IDF battles to clear southern Lebanon of Hezbollah terrorists, it is worth highlighting an intriguing historical fact, one that many seem to have forgotten. Having grown up with an international boundary between the Jewish state and our neighbors to the north, we take it for granted that this is how it has always been and should be.
Michael Freund reflects on 40 years as an Orthodox Jew

Nov 12, 2024 | jpost.com | Michael Freund

As the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote, “Hashem is calling on each of us, saying there is a reason why we are here because He has something for us to do, something that only we can do. Precisely four decades ago this past week, at the tender age of 16, I made a momentous decision, one that forever changed my life.
Israel should attack Iran's nuclear facilities – Tehran can't stop it - opinion

Nov 1, 2024 | jpost.com | Michael Freund

This past weekend, the Jewish state conducted a master class in how to call a hostile foe’s bluff and severely incapacitate it with strategic precision. Over the course of just several hours, the Israel Air Force (IAF) reportedly succeeded in destroying much of the air defense system that Iran had spent the past two decades building, while also obliterating the ayatollahs’ missile production capabilities.
Christopher Columbus? More like Chaim Columbus! Jewishness revealed - opinion

Oct 16, 2024 | jpost.com | Michael Freund

He is the most famous explorer in history, a man so well known that three European countries – Spain, Italy, and Portugal – claim him as their own. The United States has a federal holiday in his honor, including a traffic-inducing parade in Manhattan, and Colombia and the Bahamas also commemorate him annually. But persistent questions surrounding the identity of Christopher Columbus may finally have been solved, and let’s just say that we may want to start calling him Chaim instead.
We Must Dance Again on Simchat Torah

Oct 15, 2024 | jewishlink.news | Michael Freund

If Jews in the midst of battle in Sinai, persecuted by the Soviets in Moscow, or surrounded by death at Auschwitz celebrated Simchat Torah despite it all, then we too can – and must!It is the question on everyone’s mind, one fraught with emotion, uncertainty, and no small amount of dread. Simchat Torah, the day of rejoicing for the sacred law given to us at Sinai, is quickly approaching.