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 […]

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 […]

Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” Ynet, April 15, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3876368,00.html. With the advent of the Washington Nuclear Summit, it is incumbent upon Prime Minister Netanyahu to refute the notion that a linkage exists, supposedly, between the campaign to deny Iran nuclear capabilities on one hand and the Palestinian issue on the other hand. Some Israeli politicians […]

By: Avi Ifergan Date: Wednesday, April 14 2010 Earlier this month, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a forum of Jewish leaders that “sometimes friends need to tell each other the hard truth.” I’d like, on behalf of my people, to return the courtesy with the following words directed to President Obama. Mr. President, you […]

By CAROLINE GLICK The Jerusalem Post 16/04/2010 16:07 www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=173305 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 […]

By: Elliot Resnick The New York Post called him “the nation’s foremost journalistic expert on terrorism.” Richard Clarke, former White House counterterrorism chief, called him the “Paul Revere of terrorism.” For 16 years, Steven Emerson has been conducting research, reporting, writing, speaking, and testifying before Congress on the threat of radical Islam. The author of […]

By: Abba Eban Editor’s Note: Monday, April 19 (5 Iyar), is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day. To mark the occasion, we’ve excerpted portions of an address by then-Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban to the UN General Assembly’s Special Political Committee on November 17, 1958. The speech makes for remarkable reading, as it was written and delivered […]

Rachel Saperstein(Israelnationalnews.com) Groups of young children huddled high upon the playground equipment in our simple park. They faced a makeshift stage on which a black backdrop blazed under yellow spotlights. A draped Israeli flag and a large cardboard candle surrounded the words ‘Remember, do not forget’. Holocaust Remembrance Eve… Our teenagers who had just returned […]

Ed Koch I weep as I witness outrageous verbal attacks on Israel. What makes these verbal assaults and distortions all the more painful is that they are being orchestrated by President Obama. For me, the situation today recalls what occurred in 70 AD when the Roman emperor Vespasian launched a military campaign against the Jewish […]

Ruth King Who said this on May 6th, 1998? ”Well, I think that it will be in the long-term interest of the Middle East for Palestine to be a state….[in] the territory that the Palestinians currently inhabit, and whatever ‘additional territory’ they will obtain through the peace negotiations.” It was then First Lady Hillary Clinton. […]