Op-Eds

I'm sitting and watching President Obama's speech on the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. He is eloquent as usual, giving compelling visuals of the protestors demanding a free government amid great personal peril. He is quoting Gandhi and Martin Luther King. He has taken charge of the situation, endorsing the determination of the people of Egypt to throw out their dictator.

ZOA again urges the ADL and Jonathan Greenblatt to stop promoting #BLM and to unequivocally condemn the anti-Semitic, Israel-hating #BLM.

Israel may feel it is in its best interest to placate the court, but the ICC as an arm of Western ambitions throughout the region and the developing world does not have Israel’s interest in mind.

The Israelis who live in Trump Heights will not be wealthy. They will have few luxuries. But they will be determined.

Apart from prayer rugs, Islam has produced nothing but state-of-the-art terrorism techniques over the centuries.

More than 3,000 years before the Mayflower left England for the New World, Jews fled from Egypt.

There seems to be a tendency by many Jews to brush aside, downplay or even ignore Jew-hatred from some Muslims motivated by aggressive mosques or interpretations of Islam.

When I moved to Israel fourteen years ago, I was very keen on meeting Rabbi Aryeh Carmell, zt"l. He had taught Gemara to my father in Yeshivas Dvar Yerushalayim many years earlier, but what excited me was his role as editor of Challenge, the first of the Torah/science genre. I visited him one Shabbos, and he was glad to answer my questions.

Elie Wiesel and Ronald Lauder recently criticized the Obama administration in separately placed newspaper advertisements. Instead of listening to Wiesel and Lauder's concerns, Haaretz reported, administration officials expressed "harsh criticism" over their ads.

The decision by judicial reform opponents to invite, indeed to plead for, U.S. intervention in this complex and fateful internal contest damages Israeli sovereignty and self-government.

"Making the Desert Bloom" is one of the axioms of David Ben-Gurion's remarkable legacy - one that has fired the imagination of Israeli farmers, international donors and the Zionist movement for more than half a century.

Despite the continued reporting of atrocities during the cease-fire and the motive to destroy villages in the path of oil expansion in the Eastern Upper Nile, the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team neglected to interview key witnesses who were readily available.

A federal judge just issued the first substantive ruling in a challenge to the IRS’s pose of political neutrality.

The only way to convince the Palestinians to end the conflict is an Israeli victory. 

I come across Yair Michaeli standing amid the bustle of an Israeli shopping mall, a clipboard in his hand. He appears to be a serious-minded Israeli haredi. What is he doing in a place like this?

The government should introduce tougher legislation to prosecute those engaged in sedition, sabotaging the Jewish state and promoting our destruction. The Arab parties in particular, must be countered. They are anti-Zionist

Although, as has been well-documented, recent years have seen a rise in anti-Semitism in the UK, we who reside here, members of both the older and younger generations, are apt to reflect upon the fact that we are privileged to live in a malchus shel chesed.

Those seeking support to oppose Zionism, found fertile ground in the sewers of global antisemitism. And the best part about antisemites? You can say whatever you like about the Jews and it will be believed.

A similar "peace" deal as was crammed down Israel's throat ten years ago, and that led to where we are today.

The WH&State Department deny reality. The '67 line is sacred; all beyond is illegal&to be forfeited

The world has taken no action against China's militarization of the disputed Spratly Islands. Expect the same with "Palestine".

Jabotinsky said “Go To Hell” was a good retort to opponents of the Jewish people; fitting for Obama.

Slanderous lies against the Jews were used by opponents of the administration, including Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D) and Charles A. Lindberg, By virtue of their status, their opposition gave the attacks an air of respectability and legitimacy.

The war destroyed a principal base of regional aggression and terror.

The agenda of articles appearing 20 years after the Goldstein episode has nothing to do with human rights or suffering.

The "Community Democracy" model meets all the criteria of the liberal democratic outlook, but it is based on the Jewish heritage and the Torah.

The attitudes of US voters toward Israel underscore the threat posed by two dangerous long-term political trends.

Theoretically, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz has the votes to form a coalition. In practice, though it'll never happen, which is why Gantz is now attempting to unseat Netanyahu via legislation.

I suggest we always ask ourselves two questions: Is it necessary and is it worth it? Sometimes the answer will be yes. More often, though, I think the answer will be no

There is something strange about an individual carrying two different names - I'm sorry, but it casts aspersion on one's character.