Gil Ronen(Israelnationalnews.com) Former New York mayor Ed Koch predicts that the Democratic party will face a ‘tsunami’ in the November mid-term elections, in an interview with Israel National Radio’s Yishai Fleisher. The legendary three-term mayor said that President Barack Obama had “betrayed” the Jews who voted for him en masse. “I must say,” he added, […]

by Gil Ronen The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, evaded a question Tuesday regarding the theoretical possibility that the US would shoot down IAF jets en route to attack Iran. The Weekly Standard reported that in a town hall meeting on the campus of the University of West Virginia, […]

by Michael Freund One of the consequences of the Obama administration’s sloppy handling of Iran’s atomic ambitions has been to set the stage for a region-wide race to develop nuclear technology. By allowing Tehran to proceed apace with its rush to the nuclear threshold, Washington has unwittingly created the conditions for a future nuclear arms […]

By CAROLINE GLICK Obama claims he’s launched a political war against Israel in the interest of promoting peace. But this claim, too, does not stand up to scrutiny. Why has President Barak Obama decided to foment a crisis in US relations with Israel? Some commentators have claimed that it is Israel’s fault. As they tell […]

by Gil Ronen Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sounded an urgent note regarding the Iranian threat in a Monday interview on America’s ABC network, saying that “we have a lot less time with each day that passes.” “And the crucial thing,” he said, “is to use the time available for forceful international action led by the […]

by Malkah Fleisher In the short 62 years since Israel declared independence, the Jewish state’s exports have multiplied 11,250 times, according to a report by the Israel Export and Cooperation Institute. Released ahead of Independence Day, the report stated that while exports totaled $6 million in 1948, they stood at $67.5 billion in 2009. The […]

By Richard Baehr The New York Times, in a front page article, described how President Obama appears to be reconsidering, if not turning away from, the historic strategic alliance between the U.S. and Israel. In remarks made at the end of the multinational nuclear security talks, Obama reinforced this message, saying the following: It is […]

http://worldjewishcongress.org/en/main/showNews/id/9264 15 April 2010 Dear President Obama: I write today as a proud American and a proud Jew. Jews around the world are concerned today. We are concerned about the nuclear ambitions of an Iranian regime that brags about its genocidal intentions against Israel. We are concerned that the Jewish state is being isolated and […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Modern Israel, only 62 years old Monday night, is a world leader in society, technology medicine and dozens of other fields. National-religious Rabbi Shlomo Aviner says, “Think what we could do if the world were not against us.” Israel as a country dates back to the time of King Saul, and […]

Over the past two weeks Israel has been rocked by a major espionage scandal in which the Haaretz newspaper plays a central role. To understand the significance of the scandal, it is worthwhile to preface a discussion of it with a look at a smaller story Haaretz developed this week. On Sunday, Haaretz’s Amira Hass […]