Second Thoughts? An Interview With Shlomo Ben Ami

Shlomo Ben Ami was Israel's foreign minister under Ehud Barak and served as the lead Israeli negotiator at the Camp David summit in 2000.

The Second American Civil War

The Left believes that marriage should be redefined and that judges alone are entitled to do so.

Germany’s Emboldened Neo-Nazis

The victimization card is one of the more potent ones used by the neo-Nazis.

The Secret of Belmonte

Most Jewish prayer books show the 23rd psalm on a page just before the finish of Friday evening prayers, which is to say just before the Sabbath meal.

The Day After

Before we gave Joseph's Tomb to the PLO, we were able to sneak out its blood-stained and torn paroches from his kever. Once more the coat of Yosef was stained and torn.

Flight Out Of Denial

The thought of such an event totally captured my imagination and I decided, there and then, that I must be there for this unique spectacle.

Victims of Arab Terror and Jewish Cravenness

We all ask: When will this terrorism end? It will end when Israel uses the military force required to end it.

Our Own Worst Enemy

Israel has a checkered record when it comes to official commissions of inquiry.

American Jews and School Choice

The arguments in favor of school choice and voucher systems have by now become quite familiar.

Walking The Streets Of The Lower East Side

I am far from being a sentimental old fool, yet every stroll through this part of Manhattan brings to mind images of Jews, Italians and others packed into tiny apartments in six-story buildings with no elevators.

Pacifica Network Radio Intifada

The Pacifica network has been leftist since the Pacifica Foundation was founded in 1946 by World War II conscientious objector Lew Hill.

Academics Against Israel

Many are under the impression that individuals in academia are by definition people who judge events from an unbiased, rational viewpoint.

Be Not Afraid: Message From ‘An Israeli of the Heart’

These leaders must not only renounce terrorism, but eradicate it. They must acknowledge Israel's right to exist, secure in its borders, for all time. And they must work to ensure their neighbors in the Arab community do the same.

The Palestine Problem: It’s All In A Name

If it became clear that the Arab refugees and their children who crossed over to Jordan in 1948 did not enter a 'host country' but rather the Arab part of their own country, would it not make a difference?

Symposium: Road Map To Where?

Now that there is supposed to be a cease-fire and true Middle East reciprocity, every single act of savagery and violence by the Palestinians must be met with massive Israeli retaliation, firepower and reprisals.

Under Cover Among The Terrorists

Little could I imagine when I responded to an employment ad in a paper, just over five years ago, that my career would evolve the way it did.

Meet The Real Mahmoud Abbas

In addition to this threat to limit access by Jews to their holiest site was his outright rejection that there had ever been a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount.

Prerequisites For Peace: The Road Map One Year Later

The virulent propaganda that Abbas has espoused (including equating Zionism with Nazism and denying the Holocaust) is now the hallmark of the Arab world and a primary tool in the global campaign to discredit Israel.

A Family’s Life Forever Changed: My Worst Nightmare Come True

The phone call came at 6 a.m. Steve's wife Julie was on the phone, speaking very calmly and slowly. "There has been a bombing on the bus that Steve was on. He is alive but hurt. Here is Barbara the social worker who will explain."

For G-d And Country: How The U.S. Military Made Me a Better Jew

By nature I was always machmir (strict) and never did anything half-hearted, so joining the regular army was just too easy.

French Anti-Semitism: Anatomy of an Old/New Phenomenon

Daniel Pipes warns that France offers a preview of what things could look like in the U.S. if there were a substantial increase in the Muslim population here, or if a population outside of the political mainstream were to gain political power.

The Village Is Not Burning: A Realist’s Appraisal Of Anti-Semitism Today

I do not believe that the United States is just another address for Jews on the run, just a safer haven.

See No Evil: How Professors, Politicians and the Press Coddled Jihadist Sami Al-Arian

The day after the segment aired scores of angry e-mail and phone messages flooded USF's administrative offices most demanding Al-Arian's immediate ouster.

Left Still Wrong After All These Years: An Interview With Mona Charen

I never thought that our moral legitimacy arises from getting authority from the United Nations to begin with.

Lies, More Lies, and CNN’s Lies

In the past these people were able to hide behind the cloak of time and distance in order to make their distortions sound plausible.

Lebanon 1982: The War That Drove Israel's Left Insane

It is not well understood to what a great extent the Israeli Left was radicalized by Israel's 'Peace for Galilee' invasion of Lebanon in 1982. This radicalization was very similar to the radicalization of the American Left over Vietnam.

Modern Orthodoxy In A Changing World

Many defenders of Modern Orthodoxy decry the apparent rejection of a college education in favor of yeshiva.

Peace Activist’s Lament: I Was Wrong About the War

Currently there are approximately six million Assyrians -- 2.5 million in Iraq and the rest scattered in the Assyrian Diaspora around the world.

Military Matters: An Interview With Victor Davis Hanson

There have been frequent comparisons of late between the United States and the Roman Empire. How valid do you think those comparisons are?

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