Caroline Glick Moral blindness in the face of evil is depravity. But in the upside-down moral universe of our world today, moral blindness has become a badge of honor. If you refuse to call evil by its name, then you are a moderate. And if you stand up to evil, you are yourself an extremist. […]

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online May 5, 2010 http://www.danielpipes.org/8336/why-blow-up-times-square When news comes of Muslims engaging in violence, the triad of politicians, law enforcement, and media invariably presumes that the perpetrator suffers from some mental or emotional incapacity. (For a quick listing of examples, see my collection at “Sudden Jihad or ‘Inordinate Stress’ at Ft. […]

By CAROLINE GLICK The Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=174345 By using support for Israel as a wedge issue in the upcoming elections, Republicans will do more than simply constrain Obama’s ability to harm the Jewish state. Bipartisan support for Israel has been one of the greatest casualties of US President Barack Obama’s assault on the Jewish state. […]

Schumer: Don’t force Israel to make concessions The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Democrats Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), former New York Mayor, Ed Koch, and New Republic Editor-in-Chief Marty Peretz for their courageous and forthright criticism of the Obama Administration’s pressure on and hostility towards Israel. In a detailed interview, Senator Schumer said: […]

Jennifer Rubin The J Street Education Fund has taken out an ad that takes issue with Elie Wiesel’s criticism of Obama on building in Jerusalem. But J Street doesn’t merely call for a housing freeze or for outlying Arab neighborhoods to be ceded to a Palestinian state. Using the mouthpiece of former Knesset member Yossi […]

If safeguarding international security is the chief aim of US President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, then at some point he can be expected to change course in the Middle East. For today, Obama faces the wreckage of every aspect of his Middle East policies. And largely as a consequence of his policies, the region moves […]

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” YnetNews, April 27, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3879831,00.html Since 2007, US foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority and to PA-controlled NGOs reached nearly $2BN, in addition to $3.7BN contributed by the US to UNRWA since 1950. Has American foreign aid to Abu Mazen advanced moderation, the pursuit of peace and US national […]

Muddling the Iran Issue INSS Insight No. 177, April 26, 2010 Schachter, Jonathan, Landau, Emily B., and Asculai, Ephraim www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=3969 On April 17 the New York Times revealed that in January US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote a memo to National Security Adviser James Jones on the need to develop policy options regarding Iran’s […]

BY MARK TANENBAUM A red line is crossed when a professor at an Israeli university transitions from stating his opinion on politics in academia or outside it. Prof. Joseph Klafter, president of Tel Aviv University, is mistaken if he feels members of the board of governors, such as myself, have a problem with free speech […]

March 27, 2010 Avi Ifergan, Rehovot, Israel Dear Mr. President, Earlier this month, your Secretary of State told a forum of Jewish leaders that ‘sometimes friends need to tell each other the hard truth’. Well Mr. President, allow me, on behalf of my people, to return the courtesy. You have always been rhetorically supportive of […]