Written by: Diana West In a triumph for “Palestinianism” — which Bat Ye’or thumbnails as “a replacement theory whereby Palestine replaces Israel” (her complete definition here) — Pope Benedict wholly swallowed and regurgitated the PA narrative in his disgracefully contextless lamentation over the separation fence Israel built to keep PA suicide bombers from exploding in […]

By Edward Olshaker Now that President Obama has opened the door to prosecuting Bush administration officials for legal opinions allowing waterboarding of al Qaeda leaders, it would be monumentally ironic and unjust if the door were not also open to prosecuting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for funding the murder of David Berger, the American-born […]

By: Morton A. Klein Date: Wednesday, May 13 2009 Today, under the Obama administration – as yesterday under the Bush administration – U.S. policy toward the Arab war on Israel is largely based on the notion that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah faction are genuine moderates who reject terrorism and accept Israel’s […]

David Wilder May 13, 2009 Last week PM Netanyahu told his cabinet, “I think we must make great efforts to ease life for the Palestinians while keeping security constraints in mind.” Israel has much experience ‘easing life’ for Arabs living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Following signing of the Oslo Accords, Israel moved out of […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Pinchas Buchris, Director of the Ministry of Defense, has ordered work halted on the security barrier in disputed areas of eastern Jerusalem. The construction will not be renewed before a court rules on a motion filed against the construction, according to MK Otniel Shneller (Kadima), who heads a Knesset committee that […]

by Prof. MK Arieh Eldad (IsraelNN.com) For hundreds of years, the Catholic Church believed that the Sun orbits the Earth. Whoever dared oppose this view was branded insane or a heretic. Religious dogmas are not overturned by logic. An argument between the believers of different faiths is rarely resolved by rational argument. The prophet Habukuk […]

May. 12, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Like nature, Israel’s strategic relations abhor a vacuum. In the wake of the Obama administration’s decision to drastically curtail the US’s strategic alliance with Israel in the interest of American rapprochement with Iran and Syria, the Netanyahu government has been moving swiftly to fill the void. […]

In reality, the near complete freeze on building in the territories has pushed some 1,600 young couples – out of the 2,100 couples who marry each year in the West Bank – to live in communities far from their parents and the towns in which they grew up. ‘Israel is quietly expelling young settler couples […]

By: Elliot Resnick Date: Wednesday, April 29 2009 If asked, “Who created the modern state of Israel?” most Jews would offer such names and institutions as David Ben-Gurion, Chaim Weizmann, the Jewish Agency, and the United Nations. A newly translated memoir, however, completely upends this popular perception. In The First Tithe, Israel Eldad, who ran […]

Eli E. Hertz Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his upcoming meeting with President Obama, is likely to assure Obama that he is committed to achieving peace with the Palestinian Arabs of Judea and Samaria (The West Bank). But to ensure a successful implementation of any commitment, it is Netanyahu’s duty to ensure, at the […]