Alan M. Dershowitz, Alan M. Dershowitz

No national candidate or aspirant for national office dares to offend the gun lobby.

The Affordable Health Care decision means Americans — even those who oppose the law and disagree with the decision upholding it — will benefit enormously. The ruling marks an important event in our constitutional history, but its full impact is unclear.

Unlike terrorist suspects in Israel, the Boston bomber has the basic rights of a criminal defendant; he may seek a highly-publicized execution, or martyrdom, but the targeting of so many civilians will mean it will be hard for the Attorney-General to avoid seeking the death penalty.

For 65 years, Israel has been the target of more condemnation, hatred and enmity than any other nation in the world, including, increasingly, from the center-left and the center, despite its extraordinary achievements.

Ironically, the New York Times' Iron Dome 'expose' was the worst spoiler of Obama's visit, clouding the president's assurances on Israel's security. The good news is the closeness on Iran policy between the U.S. and Israel and the absence of demands for preconditions to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

It's now more important than ever for Obama to send a message to Tehran that regardless of who heads the Defense Department, U.S. policy is to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Mayor Bloomberg and the New York Times willfully distorted the opposition to Brooklyn College's BDS event. It was not about academic freedom: It was a principled objection to departmental sponsorship of BDS' hate speech – one whose goal is blacklisting all Israeli, Jewish institutions and ultimately the end of Israel's right to exist.

I urge President Abbas to re-engage with my no-preconditions negotiations formula he signed in 2012. At the same time, Netanyahu must work hard to construct a coalition that does not tie his hands in terms of the Palestinians.

If the Newtown killings don’t oblige legislators and courts to show courage against the gun lobby and its junk politics and to end the easy availability of weapons that are efficient killing machines, what ever will?

The media and international community's failure to distinguish between the Israeli military and Hamas terrorists is not only immoral but encourages terrorism and erodes the basic principles of just warfare.

We must continue to fight the good fight within the Democratic Party, rather than let its marginalized anti-Israel voices become mainstream, to ensure that future U.S. elections don't turn into referenda on Israel.

If Hanan Ashrawi really believes that Jews who were forced to leave their homes are not refugees, let her defend her views in a public forum. I hereby challenge her to a debate on that issue.

Those who have come of age in repressive Middle Eastern regimes may not be familiar with individual freedom of speech. But the death and violence following the recent anti-Islam film should not be a trigger for a debate about the limits of free speech.