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Easily misrepresented or abused, international law can generally be manipulated to serve virtually any preferred geo-political strategy.

PM Hamdallah: "The PA will pay at least 4,000 shekels a month to prisoners released after serving a long prison term, and considers them to be returning soldiers."

By the time I was 10, my mother and I had hitchhiked for thousands of miles and befriended hundreds of exceptionally strange people.

The professor claims Israel’s collapse will lead to an alliance between secular Palestinians and post-Zionist Jews and others to build a secular democracy.

It all comes down to our state of mind.

The trial was a shock to American Jews, as was Frank's lynching two years later.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s startling Sept. 11 op-ed article in The New York Times was sobering evidence that President Obama’s self-created Syrian debacle has fostered the appearance of a sea change in international affairs – a sea change to America’s detriment.

The issue of European Union restrictions on participation in activities over Israel’s Green Line continues to roil. By any reasonable measure, the rules made no sense when promulgated and even less now. Yet the EU is resisting American efforts to push back their effective date. And though Secretary of State Kerry’s urging them to do so is welcome, his peculiarly-worded statement raises a concern of its own.

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The age of the universe. Fifteen billion or less than 6,000? The debate shows no signs of letting up in the Orthodox community. One of...

They were lining up for gas masks in Israel. Apparently, at the very time of year we are supposed to be full of simcha, Hashem wants us to be aware of the possibility of danger. Indeed, during the Yom Tov of Sukkos, we read cataclysmic haftaras dealing with the ultimate war, the Milchemes Gog Umagog. Where does that war take place? In the Holy Land, of course, where the eyes of the world are always focused.

The entire Palestinian Authority leadership lives off an international welfare check that keeps coming only because the conflict still exists.

Countries must be ready for a higher level of potential friction with the Obama Administration.

There can be little doubt that the train of thought Secretary Kerry expressed is part of the unfortunate zeitgeist.

Belgian children aged 6 to 12 are being instilled with a deep hatred for.

The delay allowed Assad to go on TV with Charlie Rose and come across as calm, measured, and reasonable.

The day after she was awarded the Liberty Medal, the Washington Post broke yet another Hillary-linked scandal.

The report warned that U.S. efforts to arm Sunni rebels could help Al Qaida militias in Syria.

Hamas faces two options: initiate new confrontation with Israel, or to confront the Egyptian Aramy in the Sinai.

One of the factors in British policy was a hope that if the Germans were flattered and treated properly, they would not be aggressive.

"He who lives outside Eretz Israel is like one who does not have God" (Ketubot 110b)

If chemical weapons had not been used, Damascus would have been overcome by the rebels.

Q: It is unusual to find a doctor who devotes an enormous amount of energy into preventing abortions. What motivates you?

Rosh Hashanah, the start of the High Holidays, was fast approaching. I had promised myself that this year would be different. For years I have followed their activities with a mild interest, just an observer, as though their concerns were not my own, but this year, in the wake of recent media storms and false accusations, I promised myself that I would finally take a stand. I would go down to their Jerusalem office and see for myself. And I did. As I pushed open the doors of their rather nondescript office I took a deep breath - welcome to largest life saving industry in all of Israel – Agudat Efrat.

Israel has one life support. It starts with Yom Kippur.

Several fundamental issues must first be addressed before a substantive and enduring peace agreement can be reached.

J Street is at odds with the man they once served as his main Jewish cheerleaders.

In death as in life, Menachem Begin remained who he had always been: a proud yet humble Jew.

Studies show that large numbers of Europeans hold a demonic view of Israel.