CLARITY
Time to Say Goodbye
Michael Oren
April 16, 2026
This week, on Yom Hashoa, a friend told me a story I had never heard—how her father as a young Jew in Libya during World War II was arrested by the Italians and later, after the Nazis occupied Italy, marked for transport to Bergen-Belsen. An hour after hearing this story, while participating in a TV panel on the Holocaust, I learned that Italy’s right-wing prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was halting her country’s defense agreement with Israel. Coming from one of Israel’s best and—after the electoral defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán—last friends in Europe, Meloni’s announcement dealt a coup de grâce to Israel’s relations with the continent. It followed years of anti-Israel measures by most European governments, including the suspension of arms sales, expelling Israel from defense industry fairs, and the recognition of a Palestinian state. In virtually every European country, antisemitism has skyrocketed. READ MORE
ISRAEL HAYOM As the West morally rots, we stand with Israel There is a specific kind of arrogance that only grows in places that have not seen a war in eighty years. The weekend revolutionaries in the West, chanting for liberation from a safe distance of four thousand miles, have lost any connection to reality. I am in Jerusalem because the Czech Republic still remembers what it means to be surrounded by those who want you erased from the map. Back in the day, when Israel was fighting the war for independence, we sent weapons. When the rest of the world looked away, Prague sent engines and iron. Fast forward to today, the situation remains the same. When other countries speak of punishing Israel for defending itself against brutal terrorism, we stand in line to defend the attacked nation. When other countries stop military shipments to Israel, Czech arms export to Israel grows. The Czech Republic stands with Israel because it is the only rational choice for a civilized nation. We are finished with the academic fantasies. Reality is back and we are ready to face it together.
AMERICAN THINKER Pope Leo XIV, the lamentably political pontiff Pope Leo XIV didn’t really have much to say about the Iranian mullahs and the IRGC murdering more than 40,000 of their own citizens in cold blood for daring to protest the regime. Or the hanging of people from lampposts. Or the butchering of them. He is, however, emphatically against the war that could potentially drive the mullahs from power and keep the madmen from acquiring nuclear weapons with which to “wipe Israel from the face of the Earth” and “destroy the Great Satan,” the latter being you and I…And, mind-bogglingly, he had nothing really to say about the ongoing genocide of Christians in Nigeria by Islamists. Even about the dozens upon dozens of men, women, and children who were slaughtered over Easter weekend while celebrating the Resurrection.
ArchitectGuy on Israel 