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It seems like we just finished casting our ballots in the 2024 presidential election, and already candidates are campaigning for local elections for 2025 (myself included). But don’t get too comfortable; there’s another critical election happening right now that will shape the future of Israel and the Jewish people worldwide.

When her Democratic Party colleagues sat motionless last week during President Donald Trump’s address to the joint chamber of Congress, Rep. Laura Gillen stood up and applauded for an honored guest who is battling cancer.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian inciter and pro-Hamas sympathizer, at his Columbia University-owned apartment building on Saturday, March 8, has fulfilled one of Donald Trump’s pledges of his 2024 Presidential campaign: Jew-hatred and anti-American actions will no longer be tolerated on campus – or anywhere in the country – or one runs the risk of lawful arrest and deportation.

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a very public argument at the Oval Office last week when Zelensky came to Washington to sign a rare minerals agreement with the United States.  The heated exchange was a vast departure on how Zelenskyy was treated by the Biden administration, and if the world wants the war in Ukraine to end, that is a very good thing.

Ein milim - There are no words. Yet our only way to communicate our disgust is with words, as inadequate as they are. Every person of good conscience and morality, regardless of their religious or geopolitical persuasion, has been sickened and disgusted by Hamas’ actions in the Bibas family so-called hostage release. While every “release” to date has been a sorry and sordid spectacle, this one was the most egregious of all, designed to torture, torment and humiliate. Not satisfied with murdering babies Ariel and Kfir, ages 4 years and 9 months at their abduction and their mother Shiri, the Hamas subhuman barbarians then pulled a heartless, shocking bait and switch, substituting an unknown female corpse for that of Shiri. Shocking and horrifying, but to those who have seen, heard and experienced all of Hamas’ horrors, not surprising. 

When Ariel Sharon made the unilateral decision to forcibly remove Jews from their homes in Gaza and turn over the area to the Palestinians in a vain attempt (and failure) at peace, a movement against the disengagement plan immediately formed. This movement chose to symbolize their protest and struggle against their own government with the color orange. Orange ribbons, orange T-shirts, and orange flags were everywhere in 2005. Now, 20 years later, the color orange has resurfaced in Israel, this time as a reaction to a tragedy.