Israeli Strength, Israeli Weakness, and the Return of the Hostages
Jews today feel the same way they did 1,891 years ago.
January 28, 2026
A half-century-long alliance.
Not only has the anti-Israel movement—so eager to speak of human rights and compassion for the suffering—expressed no sympathy for Iranians being murdered, maimed, and tortured by their government, but its leaders have even labeled the protesters “Zionist stooges” and wished the Islamic Republic well. This position, Kyle Orton writes, is “entirely consistent” and grounded in history. Telling a complex story involving the KGB, Lebanese militants, a Libyan dictator, and a tangled web of Middle Eastern terrorists, Orton traces the close links between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Shiite radicals who in 1979 overthrew the shah and established the current regime.
Jews today feel the same way they did 1,891 years ago.
A half-century-long alliance.
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A talmudic theology of mankind.
And a possible depiction of King Hezekiah.
Not only has the anti-Israel movement—so eager to speak of human rights and compassion for the suffering—expressed no sympathy for Iranians being murdered, maimed, and tortured by their government, but its leaders have even labeled the protesters “Zionist stooges” and wished the Islamic Republic well. This position, Kyle Orton writes, is “entirely consistent” and grounded in history. Telling a complex story involving the KGB, Lebanese militants, a Libyan dictator, and a tangled web of Middle Eastern terrorists, Orton traces the close links between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Shiite radicals who in 1979 overthrew the shah and established the current regime.
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