By: Helen Freedman When I received the invitation from Shani Hikind at the Ateret Cohanim/Jerusalem Reclamation Project to accompany 2008 Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee on a mission to Israel, I immediately accepted. Having heard him speak during many campaign debates and being a fan of his FOX News television show, […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Seventy-four percent of the public believes it is “not OK” that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made unilateral decisions regarding a building freeze instead of consulting with his cabinet and coalition. The widespread opposition to Netanyahu’s decision was revealed this week in a Maagar Mochot (Brain Base) poll, commissioned by Dr. Aaron […]

Dear Friends, As I have written in a number of articles recently, Israelis consider President Obama to be deeply hostile to Israel. A Jerusalem Post poll from June showed that only 6 percent of Israeli Jews think that he is pro-Israel and a more recent Haaretz poll showed that a mere 12 percent of Israelis […]

by Toby Klein Greenwald Eighty years ago, an Arab mob went on a rampage and murdered 69 Jews. On August 23, 1929, the day before the Hebron Massacre, rumors were circulating about anticipated riots, but of the 700 Jews who lived in Hebron, most did not believe anything bad would happen to them. They considered […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has submitted an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a petition for Court review filed by the parents of David Boim, a victim of Palestinian Arab terrorism. The brief was prepared by David I. Schoen, Esq., a distinguished criminal lawyer […]

By: Yoram Ettinger Why a Palestinian state would be a threat to American, Israeli and even Arab national security. The idea that a Palestinian state can lead to enduring peace in the Middle East has become a diplomatic obsession for American policy makers. Bringing such a state into being has become the equivalent of finding […]

Jerusalem Post By Caroline Glick A central pillar of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy paradigm was shattered at the Fatah conference in Bethlehem – but don’t expect the White House to notice. At the conference, Fatah’s supposedly feuding old guard and young guard were united in their refusal to reach an accommodation with Israel. […]

Michael D. Evans , THE JERUSALEM POST Former President Jimmy Carter has just released a new book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan that Will Work in which he advocates a straightforward solution: Israel should embrace the Quartet [Russia, the UN, the EU and the US]. The plan is backed by […]

By: Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Date: Wednesday, August 19 2009 Not too many rabbis spend their day trying to cure cancer. Fewer still own three dogs and a killer fish named Shalom on the side. But Rabbi Dr. Robert Shorr does and sees no inherent conflict or tension between his various activities. The […]

Unstable Mideast makes Judea, Samaria crucial for Israel’s security Yoram Ettinger In 1967, Israel demolished the military forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Consequently, Israel developed the “Low Probability Arab Offensive” concept. The 1973 War – along with Mideast unpredictability and objective intelligence constraints – devastated that concept, threatening the Jewish State with oblivion. In […]