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Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America

The executive order follows the collapse of trade talks between the US and Canada last week, with each side ‌blaming the ⁠other for derailing three days of intensive negotiations.

A map naming Lake Ontario as "Lake America" is displayed as U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on August 27, 2026 in Washington, DC.
Abdul El-Sayed, winner of Michigan US Democratic primary, speaks during a press conference in Detroit, Michigan, US August 5, 2026.

El-Sayed win puts Democrats and pro-Israel voters at a crossroads - opinion

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference after meeting at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, December 29, 2025.

Israel’s close ties with Trump cannot replace strategic independence - opinion

(Illustrative) A man casts his ballot at a voting station on the morning of the municipal elections, in Ashdod, February 27, 2024

Israeli citizens abroad still have a stake in Israel and its future - opinion


SNAFU on the Potomac: Trump, Iran, and the dysfunction in Washington - opinion

The incumbents will swear they’ve been working diligently for you, but it is all the others who’ve made the mess. Most citizens will agree on the need for change but then send in the same old clowns.

 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance point to the stage during Day 1 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 15, 2024.

Economic pressure can buy Israel time. Mistaking it for a strategy would squander it - opinion

A blockade would impose real costs on Tehran and make Israel safer. But weakening Iran is not the same as toppling the regime. It is the difference between buying time and solving the problem.

 People wave flags next to an Iranian missile on display during the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 10, 2025.

Kurds are not a proxy. We are a nation without a front - opinion

I can forgive an anonymous stranger a cheap joke. I have less patience for people who call themselves intellectuals and arrive at the identical idea in longer sentences.

Israelis from Kurdish origin take part in a rally in support of the Kurdish referendum outside the American consulate in Jerusalem September 24, 2017

The question is not ‘Bibi: Yes or no?’ but the answer is, ‘Which Israel?’ - opinion

Perhaps, after nearly 80 years devoted to changing the Jewish condition, Israel has reached another stage of Zionism.

An AI-generated political cartoon.

Is Netanyahu the Palestinians’ new BFF? - opinion

The Saudis insisted they would not normalize relations until Israel and the Palestinians had made credible progress on negotiations toward statehood, something Netanyahu rejected.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, attend a funeral service for the late US senator Lindsey Graham in Washington, in July 2026.

The DSA says October 7 was inevitable. It was planned. It was a choice - opinion

October 8 was not weeks later. It was not after Israel entered Gaza and began its military operation. It was the very next day. Israelis were still counting the dead, the burned and desecrated bodies

 View of the Re'im music festival massacre, in southern Israel, January 16, 2025.

Israel must prepare its Joshua Generation for the post-Netanyahu era - opinion

Israel has become a military, technological, and economic powerhouse. Yet as its strategic strength has reached historic heights, its international legitimacy has increasingly come under attack.

THE KNESSET during a meeting on December 24, 2025.

The question raised inside the White House that could define America's future - opinion

The Constitution protects liberty, but can the US preserve freedom without the moral culture that sustains it?

The US Capitol building is pictured at 5:04 pm, five years after the building was overrun by pro-Trump supporters, in Washington, DC, US, January 6, 2026

Attacking the pro-Israel lobby has become the acceptable way to attack Jews - opinion

Libel is always the best starting point, since it serves to advance an unsavory view of the people they are attempting to hang in the town square. And that is exactly what is happening.

Israeli and American flags on the same pole.

Boy George reminds us why you can't reason with unreasonable Oct. 7 deniers - opinion

Many praised Boy George, the flamboyant icon of the 1980s, for standing up for what he believed in despite knowing he would face criticism. Others mocked him.

 Standing and supporting Israel