Indigeneity asks where a people became a people 鈥� not where its descendants happened to be living centuries later. By that standard, few peoples and lands match more clearly the idea of indigeneity than the 91传媒 people with the Land of Israel.

With the milestone of July 4th imminent, there鈥檚 an appalling amount of doom and gloom about America by its own citizenry鈥攅ven elected officials. The celebratory mood is mixed, if not altogether nihilistic.

There is something in this people, covenanted to justice, to memory, to one another, that is impossible to extinguish.

Americans – and Israelis in particular – are not reacting to spin, or to partisan framing, or to media distortions. They are reacting to the text of the agreement itself, and to what has followed it.

Almost overnight, Yair Golan transformed from a retired general into one of the most talked-about politicians in Israel.

Beyond the on-field excitement of global soccer lies a deeper opportunity: to draw hard-earned lessons from the nations that have long dominated the beautiful game.

America is not modern Israel鈥檚 creator, and Israel is not America鈥檚 dependent. The two nations have influenced one another and benefited from one another, but the deepest roots of that relationship predate them both.

Vance is not the first political leader to lose his temper because somebody, somewhere, criticized a policy of his. And it鈥檚 not the first time the vice president has tried to bully an American ally through the tactic of public shaming.