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Had Mitt Romney won the presidential election, Tevi Troy would be director of domestic policy on his transition team.

“Israel has bad public relations.” This is the perennial cry. “Israel must improve its image to convince the world of the justness of its cause.”

We must understand how Clinton's mind and that of a large portion of the Western elite works.

Muslim Turks' attitude for centuries has demonstrated that Turks and Jews have continued to help each other in times of great crises.

Three thousand new apartments should be transformed into 30,000 new apartment buildings.

Mahmoud Abbas spent his speech claiming that this was the last chance for the peace process. In reality, it was simply the last chance for Abbas to remain in charge.

To the Muslim world, democracy did not mean individualism, it meant majority rule.

Europe has not even considered what would happen if terrorist elements in Judea and Samaria would start firing rockets at civilians living across Israel.

They did not celebrate out of support for the two-state solution peace with Israel.

Economic facts about Israel in the aftermath of Operation Pillar of Defense.

The elimination of the buffer zone by the security fence will not only leave Israel more vulnerable to attacks by terrorists, but also invite "publicity stunts" by adversarial non-governmental organizations.

Egypt seems today like a rickety cart that strong, immense horses are pulling in different directions.

Egypt's draft constitution enshrines Sharia rule without rubbing people’s faces in it.

The government middle class is the most hopeless middle class in all of history. It aspires to nothing and it dreams of nothing.

In contrast to rogue players, Israel uses force only because it has to.

By removing this layer of Israeli protection, an "exponential increase" in the Gaza arsenal predictably followed, culminating in the Fajr-5 missiles that reached Tel Aviv this month.

A Sarah Schenirer of our times, Mrs. Chaya Newman was a trailblazer in the field of women’s Jewish education. She inspired and guided thousands of students and fellow educators with the careful curriculum she created, and example she set. She had the rare gift of bringing out the best in her students, commanding respect while remaining as loving and accessible as a grandmother.

The government class is being led by liars and fools who see it as a lever for upending and taking over a working class society.

The non-member 'state' status will sink the Palestinian leadership even deeper into an obsession with intransigence in practice and paper victories that mean nothing in the real world.

Israel has a simple option: Immediate withdrawal from the United Nations.

After the Pillar of Defense cease-fire, many now understand what we understood after the Zo Artzeinu demonstrations: The Israeli crisis is not on the continuum between Right and Left. It is on the continuum between Israelis and their Jewish identity.

As I write this, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has just announced, during a televised press conference, his decision not to run in the coming elections and to leave politics.

Abbas was one of the first Arab leaders to congratulate Hamas on its "victory" over Israel during the recent eight-day confrontation.

America needs a foreign policy that is bigger than its defensive needs but smaller than progressive ambitions of global citizenship.

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Many readers are no doubt aware of the millions in taxpayer dollars that the Obama administration has contracted out to PR firms for the purpose of hawking Obamacare to a reluctant public.

Hamas has become a tool for both the Sunni and Shi'ite fundamentalists to use in their battle not only against the non-Muslim world, but against each other.

Israel's final decision concerning what to do about a nuclear Iran will depend on answers to certain core psychological questions. Is the Iranian adversary rational, valuing national survival more highly than any other preference, or combination of preferences? Or, on even a single occasion, is this enemy more apt to prove itself irrational, thereby choosing to value certain preferences more highly than the country's indispensable physical security?

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