Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA Here is the score: Last year Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made a major policy speach in which he spoke of a two state solution. And instead of putting him to the test as to what he meant by this the Arabs decided that there was no rush to enter negotiations. […]

SHDULAT ERETZ-YISRAEL B’KNESSET The Friends of the Land of Israel in the Knesset To: Mr. Binyamin Netanyahu – Prime Minister Dear Mr. Prime Minister, On the eve of your trip to the United States, we want to express our support for your brave stand concerning the continuation of building projects in Jerusalem. We have no […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Why has US President Barak Obama decided to foment a crisis in US relations with Israel? Some commentators have claimed that it is Israel’s fault. As they tell it, the news that Israel has not banned Jewish construction in Jerusalem – after repeatedly refusing to ban such construction — […]

By: Editorial Board We thought the lesson of the Obama administration’s unfortunate early attempts to impose a total settlement construction freeze on Israel was that there were certain red lines Israel simply could not cross and that to insist it do so only forces Israelis to dig in, encourages Palestinian recalcitrance and serves to put […]

David Wilder Dear Rahm and David, I’m writing this as I sit and watch, via live internet, the ceremony marking the rededication of the Hurva synagogue in Jerusalem, in the area you would classify “east Jerusalem”, disputed territory, or perhaps, ‘occupied territory’ over the ‘green line’ adjacent to ‘Temple Mount.’ Before asking a few questions, […]

Jerusalem Post ISI LEIBLER Recent hostile outbursts by the US gov’t must be viewed in the context that the US-Israel relationship has been on a downward spiral since Obama. The bureaucratic fashla [blunder] of our dysfunctional government to forestall the announcement of a new housing project in Jerusalem during the visit of US Vice President […]

Eli E. Hertz Palestinians have nurtured a myth that historically there were two Jerusalems – an Arab ‘East Jerusalem’ and a Jewish ‘West Jerusalem.’ Jerusalem was never an Arab city; Jews have held a majority in Jerusalem since 1870, and ‘east-west’ is a geographic, not political designation. It is no different than claiming the Eastern […]

By: Aaron Klein The only action that can stop Iran from building nuclear weapons is an Israeli strike on Tehran’s nuclear facilities, argued John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the UN under the Bush administration. Speaking in a WABC radio interview with this reporter, Bolton warned time is running out for an Israeli attack. […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Republican Party leaders attacked the Obama administration Monday with unusually harsh language, charging it with an “irresponsible” position against an ally. “In an effort to ingratiate our country with the Arab world, this administration has shown a troubling eagerness to undercut our allies and friends,” said the GOP’s only Jewish […]

If you behave like a doormat, and you regard yourself as a doormat and let others treat you as a doormat then you must be a doormat. It is now clear that Israel is regarded by most of the world as a doormat over which political leaders, academics and the media can tread on their […]