Posted on: July 25th, 2013

The nation of Israel is losing its grip on the Temple Mount.

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Posted on: July 25th, 2013

Why would our tradition fill our fun-filled summers with such restricting limitations?

Posted on: July 25th, 2013

Blunt and forthright, he declared that “Due to our common roots, a Christian cannot be anti-Semitic!”

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Posted on: July 25th, 2013

This was an outright failure of Jewish Home and its chairman, Minister of Religious Services Naftali Bennett.

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Posted on: July 24th, 2013

The name of the diplomatic game over the past few weeks seems to have been "Bear Down on Israel." The pressure has come in many forms:

Posted on: July 24th, 2013

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Posted on: July 24th, 2013

It’s certainly been a while, hasn’t it? And yet it seems like the conversation was never really interrupted, as I’ve enjoyed, in the three and a half months since this column last appeared, many an interesting exchange, via e-mail and phone, with some very intelligent readers.

Posted on: July 24th, 2013

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Posted on: July 24th, 2013

The alleged breakthrough orchestrated by Secretary of State Kerry last week between Israel and the Palestinians was the culmination of a series of desperate attempts to project the appearance of progress toward a resumption of real negotiations when, given the current circumstances, none are likely to occur.

Posted on: July 24th, 2013

President Obama is playing a cynical and dangerous game with his comments in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The problem is not that Mr. Obama may feel that by acquitting Mr. Zimmerman the jury was saying race played no role. That is his prerogative. But it is a problem when the president, in introducing a national dialogue on race relations at this time, indelibly links Trayvon Martin’s death with race and thereby inserts himself in the middle of a concerted effort by some, who will simply not accept the jury’s verdict, to have Mr. Zimmerman indicted on federal anti-hate laws.

Posted on: July 24th, 2013

Writing about Israeli politics can sometimes be a depressing endeavor, but P. David Hornik has been doing it consistently for over a decade for such media outlets as FrontPage Magazine, Pajamas Media, American Spectator, and The Jewish Press.

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Posted on: July 24th, 2013

Eighty years ago, in January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Barely a month later Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated president of the United States. For the next twelve years, until their deaths eighteen days apart in April 1945, they personified the horrors of dictatorship and the blessings of democracy.

Posted on: July 23rd, 2013

This latest decision tells us nothing about Israel or the West Bank. But it tells us what we need to know about the EU.

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Posted on: July 23rd, 2013

Does anyone notice that the Palestinians keep demanding more preconditions, Israeli concessions but never come to the table?

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Posted on: July 22nd, 2013

Why aren't you boycotting Chinese entities operating in occupied Tibet?

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Posted on: July 22nd, 2013

By now it’s known that I have strongly supported Samantha’s nomination.

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Posted on: July 21st, 2013

There is also widespread belief that Patterson's "meddling" in Egypt's affairs is not limited to General Sisi and the Egyptian media.

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Posted on: July 21st, 2013

Is this the face of Christianity, as Christian Century would like to see it displayed? For my part, I repudiate it without hesitation.

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Posted on: July 21st, 2013

The PA will keep doing stalling tactics and come up with new preconditions that it hopes Israel will not meet.

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Posted on: July 21st, 2013

I don’t expect thinking Muslims to object to a reasoned critique of Islam.

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