The Arab Street Says ‘Don’t Bomb Iran!’ But Who Cares
Israel, of all nations, can’t let the Arab street set policy for it.
Smelling Chuck Hagel & Other Anti-Semites
My alarm bells went off when the President chose Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.
Benghazi’s Lesson
The video story was part of a theme that has run through Obama’s presidency from the beginning.
Syria, Iran and US Policy — What It Means for Israel
The bad news is that Assad’s Syria is a pipeline of all kinds of support from Iran to Hizbollah.
Disproportionate Response Pays
There is no way the Jewish state (or for that matter, the Jewish people) will ever generate feelings of love or even liking in the world.
US Policy on Israel is Stuck in the 1970s
Now that the U.S. is closer to energy independence, importing less oil now than at any time since 1987, the Saudis do not have anywhere near the leverage that they had in 1973.
Israel Suffers Psychologically From Imposed Restraint
The imposed cease-fire — and it was imposed, by Barack Obama and his ally Mohammed Morsi — is not a victory.
Evergreen State — a Total Immersion Experience
Students are drawn into psycho-political cyclotrons and are insulated from all other voices. What begins as a concern for human rights is amplified by contact with more and more extreme expressions of anti-Israel ideology.
Why Some US Jews Don’t Get Israel
Part of my job — not my paying job, the one I do for the sake of shamayim — is to talk to my Jewish friends and try to explain why the existence of a Jewish state is essential for all Jews, wherever they live, why a good relationship with the US is essential for Israel, and why the support of American Jews is in turn essential for such a relationship. I meet a lot of resistance, which is unsurprising when you consider that if you leave aside Arabs and other Muslims, the worldwide movement to end the Jewish state is disproportionately led by people of Jewish descent.
Win Friends and Influence People with Emotional Appeals
People are not influenced by rational argument, but rather by emotion, so make your appeals powerful and emotional.
Build Israel, not Palestine
The biggest obstacle to peace, of course, is the Palestinian intention to establish an Arab state from the river to the sea.
Banana syndrome at the URJ
Israel is an independent sovereign state, and it should not be treated as a banana republic.
A Jewish State Can Be Democratic and Moral
In an online op-ed for the New York Times, a philosophy professor presumes that democracy precludes national symbols of any specific national group and on that basis argues that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state.
Pollard Still Imprisoned After 27 Years: An Object Lesson for Jews?
I can’t believe, if the government actually has information to justify the sentence, that it could not be provided in a manner that would be convincing without revealing damaging secrets.
Jewish History and Sovereignty Slipping Away
This is one of those issues that ought to be shocking, but about which nothing is done. For years — I’ve written about this before — the Muslim waqf that controls the Temple Mount has been systematically destroying archaeological artifacts of Jewish provenance at the site.
Could You Live with this Level of Violence?
A situation has arisen in Judea and Samaria where attempted murder — and sometimes the attempts are successful — is a daily occurrence.
‘Highest Levels’ of US Administration Deny Jewish History
The U.S. government is tacitly agreeing that the historical truth about the Jews and Israel is inimical to “peace.”
Thoughts on Nelson Mandela and Israel
Peres chose the uranium because Israel needed it to survive.
Prisoners Have Great Ideological and Religious Value
From the standpoint of the Islamist Hamas, the actions of the prisoners constitute defensive jihad against Jews usurping land which is an Islamic waqf.
A Nuclear Iran: Get Used to It
Two days before he spoke, Rouhani reviewed a missile transports parade in Teheran with the slogans “Death to America” and “Israel should cease to exist.”
The President Sends a Message of Submission
The Western media are not the only ones who fail to see the symbolism of raising al-Qaeda’s banner on 9/11. Our President missed it as well.
Democratic Platform Tilts Against Israel: Side by Side Comparison to 2008, 2004
My pro-Obama friends tell me that nothing’s changed, that this administration is as pro-Israel as any previous one, Democratic or Republican, and I needn’t fear that a reelected President Obama will punish Israel. With all due respect, they are full of it.
Tell the NYT: Israelis Have Lost Interest in the ‘Peace Process’
There was little discussion during the campaign of 'the peace process, because everybody in Israel, with the exception of the European- and NIF-funded Left, knows that the “peace process” is dead.
Will Obama Soon Announce ‘Peace in Our Time’?
Can we expect an October Surprise this year? We may already have one brewing. A former CIA operative calling himself “Reza Khalili” and claiming to have been an agent inside the Iranian Revolutionary Guards organization, who has previously made skeptically-received claims that Iran had already produced 90% enriched uranium, is now saying that the Obama Administration has struck a deal with the Iranian regime that will shortly be announced:
The Logic of the ‘Winged Pig Conditional’
To a great extent, the whole idea of a two-state solution as presented by President Obama, Shimon Peres, etc. is a winged pig.
How to Keep a Sovereign State
Incitement against Israel has reached a fever pitch, and PA officials are not even pretending to want to stop it.
Surrender Corrupts the Soul of Israel
Fein is wrong. The corruption of the Jewish soul did not begin in 1967. It began with the adoption of the idea that surrender is pro-Israel.
Cut off the Iranian Head of the Syrian Snake
The real villain is the Iranian regime, which has colonized Syria and is colonizing Lebanon in its attempt to squeeze out U.S. influence in the Middle East.
Kerry’s Palestinian Mission: Create Facts on the Ground
It's all about establishing Jewish-free areas.
How Not to Remember the Holocaust
The Jewish lesson of the Holocaust is this: Jew hatred is real, it is dangerous and it is not possible for Jews to depend on others to protect them.