by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) The University of California at Irvine has suspended the Muslim Student Union for organizing a protest that stopped Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the United States, from speaking in February. The Muslim group said it would appeal to the chancellor the decision by university officials, arguing that the punishment would […]

Knesset members submit bill that would see money owed to Palestinians handed over to Israelis hurt by settlement boycott Amnon Meranda Will Palestinian soon pay price for boycott? A new bill submitted by 25 Knesset members Wednesday would see money slated for transfer to the Palestinian Authority used to compensate Israelis hurt by the PA’s […]

By: Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis Date: Wednesday, June 09 2010 I am interrupting the sequence of my articles regarding questions posed by widows and widowers. B’Ezrat Hashem, I will continue that discussion in future columns. But for now, I feel compelled to address the tragic events that have once again unfolded in Eretz Yisrael. I would […]

By Louis René Beres After the Israeli Gaza Flotilla interdiction, it is difficult to understand the real difference between power and weakness. On the surface, at least in tangible military terms, Israel would appear to have had a determinative upper hand. In fact, the alleged plight of the flotilla passengers, however contrived, created an extended […]

Since the navy’s May 31 takeover of the Turkish-Hamas flotilla , Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his advisors have deliberated around the clock about how to contend with the US-led international stampede against Israel. But their ultimate decision to form an investigatory committee led by a retired Supreme Court justice and overseen by foreign observers […]

Philippe Karsenty www.karsenty.fr + 33 6 60 68 74 85 philippe@karsenty.fr June 11, 2010 Dear Friends, Two years ago, the private French TV Canal + aired a documentary in support of France 2, France’s government-sponsored television station that broadcast the al Dura hoax. I sued them and the verdict came today: Canal + was found […]

By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ Wall St. Journal 6/9/10 forwarded with commentary by Emanuel A. Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator President Barack Hussein Obama need no longer deny his deep animus and commitments to the elimination of the only decent, humanitarian and democratic nation in the Middle East. Obama is no different than the Lebanese Helen […]

Caroline Glick The first rule of strategy is to keep your opponent busy attending to your agenda so he has no time to advance his own. Unfortunately, Israel’s leaders seem unaware of this rule, while Iran’s rulers triumph in its application. Over the past few weeks, Israel has devoted itself entirely to the consideration of […]

By: Kenneth Levin Date: Wednesday, June 09 2010 Many are puzzled by the widespread support in European democracies of Palestinian groups and Arab states that promote genocidal anti-Semitism. After all, Palestinian and broader Arab anti-Semitism draws heavily, in its anti-Jewish propaganda, on Nazi models, and Western Europe and the European Union are supposed to be […]

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: A US-Israel Initiative” http://www.theettingerreport.co.il 1. Israel constitutes 0.2% (11,000 sqm) of the Arab League members (5.56MN sqm), which are 150% and 130% larger than the US and Europe respectively (and that does not include the 643,800 sqm of Iran). The L-F-P formula assumes that Israel should concede its scarcest […]