The World According To Ralph Peters

Ralph Peters is a jack of many trades and master of them all. He is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, a writer of both fiction and non-fiction (his newest novel, “Hell or Richmond,” set during the Civil War, has just been released) and a military analyst. A columnist for the New York Post since 2002, Peters has written for USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and numerous other publications. He also serves as a Fox News strategic analyst. The Jewish Press spoke with Peters on a variety of issues.

Palestinians: Why Abbas Chose this Prime Minister

On the political arena, the appointment of Hamdallah will have no impact whatsoever.

A Plea for Victims of Child Abuse

Killing one’s souls, in Jewish law, is at least as destructive as killing one physically.

God’s Army

Don’t think that secular Israelis are not just as divided as anyone else.

A State of Chaos

A society where anarcho-tyranny exists is a society without fundamental justice.

Church of Scotland Shreds Bible, Canonizes Palestinian ‘Scripture’

Anyone with a grain of theological education knows that the original Scripture of the Early Church was exclusively the Scripture of the Jews.

Make Room for Islamistgate: the Obama Administration’s New Scandal

Moderate Muslims have been neglected and isolated by this project which has helped the radicals, Islamists, and pro-terrorists.

Good Riddance, Mr. Standley

Jabari minces no words: "You hold up the Bible and say that God gave you this land. I hold up the Koran and say that Allah gave us this land."

Palestinian Authority Finds Perfect Prime Minister

He knows how to deal with the West and will hopefully keep the money rolling in but cannot do anything and won’t try.

Turkey’s Secular Backlash and the Rising Price of Liquor

Alcohol consumption fell by a third from 2003 to 2008.

The War on Terror is Over: Now What?

Unfortunately for the president's strategy, the savage enemy treats his professed "humility" as groveling -- an invitation to double down on aggression.

Massive Demonstrations Shake Turkey

Demonstrators charged that police undercover agents entered the protest areas, threw stones, and then went back behind the police lines.

Britain’s Islamic Future

In the 2011 Census, Christianity was still the largest religious group in England and Wales with 33.2 million people (59% of the population).

Palestinians Threaten their Own Businessmen

They have begun threatening businessmen who want to work with Israeli counterparts.

Turkey, Israel, and Syria: Why Things are Going Wrong

Put simply, who are the friends of Israel in the region and who are the foes?

Gay Jews: Hatred Is Not Halacha

Others have always accused us of sinister plots to corrupt or control the broader society.

Orthodox Jews Should Not March Alongside the LGBT Sunday

The understanding that was maintained for two decades has been overturned.

Palestinians: Kerry Trying to Bribe Us to “Sell Out”

Kerry's plan to boost the Palestinian economy has hardly impressed the Palestinian Authority leadership.

Who’s Calling the Shots at the Temple Mount?

“This area is under Muslim sovereignty,” the senior officer on the Temple Mount said to me. “I thought that we were in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel,” I answered, as I set out on a series of letter-writing campaigns and meetings with the chief of Israel police, the attorney general and the minister for internal security.

What Would Happen If…

The Israeli Parliament is usually controlled by a coalition of different political parties because no one party receives enough votes to have a majority. Unlike in the U.S., where there are two major political parties and one of the two political parties commands a majority of the seats in the Senate and/or in the House, in Israel the government is composed of many, many small political parties, each pushing its own agenda.

Finding My Home

Forty-six years ago, in the first week of June, Israel stunned the world when it wasn’t looking. Four years later, Israel stunned me when I wasn’t looking.

Will ‘Terrorism’ be Redefined to Placate Israeli Leftists?

American news headlines over the past few weeks have focused on political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service of conservative groups. But Israel is experiencing its own form of political targeting by the state. The attorney general is leading an initiative to have a small group of radical juveniles who engage in mischief declared a terrorist organization.

Did the Chinese Communists Really Save Jews Fleeing the Holocaust?

During his visit to China last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled that the city of Shanghai was “one of the few places that opened its gates” to Jews fleeing Hitler. Officials of the Chinese Communist government, standing nearby, beamed with pleasure at the expectation that people all over the world would read how their regime rescued Jews.

Helping The Oklahoma Tornado Victims

We proudly salute those Jewish organizations that have rallied in support of the victims of last week’s devastating tornado that destroyed a large swath of the Oklahoma City region. As we reported last week, though there are relatively few Jews who live in the area, Jewish groups are providing an array of assistance.

Obama’s Take On Future Warfare

President Obama’s speech on counterterrorism last Thursday at the National Defense University was one of the more impressive he has delivered while in the White House. Indeed, in discussing a reevaluation of how to fight what we all have come to refer to as “the war on terror,” he eloquently identified some profound issues.

France and the Jews

Many readers have probably seen the film “Sarah’s Key,” a powerful 2010 movie that reminds its viewers of overwhelming French collaboration with the Nazis. Even today it seems widely believed that France carried on more or less heroically under the German occupation, and that the 1942 roundups of Jews in occupied France must have been carried out by the SS or Gestapo directly. In fact, however, as “Sarah’s Key” instructs in understated yet utterly hideous detail, these roundups were executed, more or less enthusiastically, by the regular French police.

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