Columns

In general, the regions these days hosts unchanging, repetitious and dreary news.

But the most painful part of an otherwise illuminating and extraordinary Forum was Iranian President Rouhani's speech.

Peace cannot be defined as the goal of a state.

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Obama is placing all the pressure on 16 Senators from his own party rather than squarely on the Iranians.

Oman will grant Iran a strategic location on a mountain overlooking the whole gulf region.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeieris is browbeating Israel in public.

President Obama’s core argument on a Middle East peace process is still founded on incorrect assumptions.

This past Shabbos, as we read the weekly Torah portion of Bishalach, my son suddenly said to me, “Dad, I have a feeling Sharon is going to pass away today, because we just read his name in Az Yashir [the Song of the Sea] where it says ‘arik charbi.’ ”

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The communities of Gush Katif were miraculous.

Once upon a time in America, every adult could recite at least some Spenglerian theory of decline.

The right-wing Mattot Arim organization annually rates rightist MKs.

One of the claims made by pro-Arab interests on Jerusalem is against archaeological findings.

Proud as I am of my daughter’s enthusiasm and her proclivity for outreach, I somehow can’t shake a niggling regret that it had to be in Germany. As the daughter of a Hungarian mother who escaped deportation by running with her family from the Nazis and the daughter-in-law of a Dutch Jewish man whose parents were shot by the Nazis and who was liberated from Bergen Belsen at the age of 12, I am one generation closer to the Holocaust than my daughter. And one degree closer to the idea of shunning anything and everything German.

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In return for its withdrawal from Gaza, Israel got a major war.

President Obama’s core argument is still founded on incorrect assumptions.

Not only are social values deconstructing at an accelerated rate, but we are also experiencing territorial deconstruction.

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It’s rather a sign of how badly Israel is losing on campus.

White racists invented the idea that accomplished black Americans are not Africans but "Moors."

Specific strategic lessons from the Bar Kokhba rebellion.

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"U.S. Weighing Closer Ties With Hardline Islamists in Syria"

The widespread support for "Hitler" [Jamal Abu al Rub] reflects the state of dissatisfaction with Abbas and his top aides.

Penn managed to sneak Ostreicher across a hostile border and into a safe and currently undisclosed location in the United States.

Ever since he vanished, the American government had repeatedly asserted that Levinson was a private businessman -- his own safety.

National park status is, unfortunately, not an ironclad guarantee against Arab encroachment.

It’s been more than ten years since Parkinson’s moved into our home.