The Ettinger Report

The Gallup poll of country favorability reflects the unique bottom-up phenomenon of the United States’ attitude towards Israel.

Israel’s former leaders understood the difference between popularity and strategic respect; the latter requires defiance of both pressure and the odds.

Black and white and read all over in Palestinian schools

Wishing everyone a joyous Purim!

Don't worry America, Israel's here to help.

The annual $3.8 billion U.S. investment in Israel saves U.S. lives, strengthens U.S. security and yields an annual rate of return of several hundred percent.

Iran’s ayatollahs have been energized by the apparent U.S. shift of paradigm from military to diplomacy, rejection of regime change and tendency to accommodate and appease.

PM Bennett should heed Israel’s Founding Father, David Ben-Gurion, who stated: “Jerusalem is equal to the whole of the Land of Israel.”

Western democracies, in general, and the United States, in particular, must enhance their military posture of deterrence and pursue peace through strength, rather than through concessions and retreat.

Yom Kippur is considered to be a Super Sabbath (Shabbat Shabbaton in Hebrew) – a soul-searching opportunity for pious and evil people alike.

Wishing you a healthy, challenging and rewarding year

Unlike in 1975, the U.S. now faces only the choice of whether to confront the enemy on their own territory or on American soil.

The Biden team has attempted to base its Middle East policy on the noble values of human rights and democracy, which are inconsistent with the Arab Middle East.

Contrary to US expectations a Palestinian state would add a rogue regime to the stormy region, intensify terrorism and war, inflame regional instability, exacerbate the Israel-Palestinian conflict, undermine the expansion of the Israel-Arab peace process, generate tailwind to rogue entities and cripple US interests. Basically, NOT a good idea

If there were an Israel-like entity in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. could terminate its military presence in the region.

Contrary to the academic, political, defense and media establishments’ dogma, there is NO Arabic demographic “time bomb.” There is, however, unprecedented Jewish demographic growth

In the Middle East, violent regime change is the rule, not the exception

A hymn to the relationship between America and its most reliable and potent ally.

In view of the impact of the Mideast on U.S. interests—and America’s desire to minimize its military presence in the region—Israel is the most reliable, capable and democratic ally in the region and the world.

Should future Israeli prime ministers sacrifice Israel's existential national security requirements on the altar of past foolhardy non-ratified Israeli proposals?

“Cleansing the 1948 land of the Zionist presence,” not peaceful coexistence, is the focal point of the Palestinian ethos.

Will they persist in their attempt to subordinate the intrinsically perfidious, despotic, intolerant, violent and unpredictable Middle East to noble core Western values?

The stability of the region hangs in the balance.

Hug a tree.

Standard & Poor's (S&P) international rating agency reaffirmed Israel's credit rating of a stable AA-, despite the impact of COVID 19, the growing budget deficit and domestic political instability,

The 400th Anniversary of the US-Israel Kinship--and going strong

While only a small minority of US voters are preoccupied with national security and foreign issues, they should realize that the next President of the US will determine the state of a tectonic globe,

Wishing all a healthy and festive Sukkot

Will Israel's public diplomacy rise to the challenge posed by the current ideological trends in the US?

The left-right divergence of confidence in mass media highlights the political, ideological, social and cultural polarization that has afflicted both countries.