Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom #232 Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” 1. Galal Nasser, a prominent columnist in Egypt’s “Al Aharam Weekly,” Dec. 23, 2009: “Violence has become the norm in Arab life, both on official and non-official levels…There are many types of violence besetting the domestic scenes of Arab countries, making relations among […]

By: Edward Olshaker At the same time the Obama administration was condemning the lawful construction of apartments in a Jewish section of Jerusalem, the president was giving his blessing to illegal settlement elsewhere, seemingly unaware of the troubling irony. In a major story that received little notice, Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano announced on November […]

By Chaskel Bennet – YeshivaWorldNews http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/44350/Op-Ed:+If+I+Forget+Thee…+Tears+in+North+Carolina+(Visiting+Jonathan+Pollard).html Last week I was invited to join a delegation led by Rabbi Pesach Lerner, the Executive Vice President of the National Council of Young Israel, and Rav Yaakov Shapiro Shlita, the Rosh Yeshiva of Mercaz HaRav Kook in Yerushalayim, to visit Jonathan Pollard in the Butner Correctional facility located […]

By Richard Shulman – N.York Examiner Palestinian Authority TV interviewed three Arab employees of official Israeli institutions in Jerusalem, a teacher, a researcher and a guide who stated that ”…they do not convey to students and visitors the historical information which they are meant to impart – contrary to the guidelines of their Israeli employers, […]

Shalom. Thank you very much. It is an honour to be here to participate in this Global Forum on Anti-Semitism. Let me begin by commending the Government of Israel for hosting this and bringing us together for this, one of the most critical issues in the world today. Let me also begin by acknowledging and […]

Evelyn Gordon When the Oslo process began in 1993, one benefit its adherents promised was a significant improvement in Israel’s international standing. And initially, it seemed as if that promise would be kept: 37 countries soon established or renewed diplomatic relations with Israel; a peace treaty was signed with Jordan; five other Arab states opened […]

By: Louis René Beres But What If Israel’s Enemies Should Still Prefer War To Peace? It’s farewell to the drawing-room’s civilized cry, The professor’s sensible whereto and why, The frock-coated diplomat’s social aplomb, Now matters are settled with gas and with bomb. W.H. Auden, Danse Macabre Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already indicated approval of […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has noted that there is an important Jewish precedent which argues against paying the ransom to Hamas of freeing 1,000 Arab terrorists for the release of Corporal Gilad Schalit, as is presently being contemplated by the Israeli government. ZOA has pointed to the classic and well-known episode of Rabbi […]

Former Israeli diplomat Yoram Ettinger out to debunk Israel’s ‘demographic myth’ Yigal Walt When Yoram Ettinger speaks his voice booms with conviction and his eyes are alight – however, one is bound to be persuaded, not to mention stunned, mostly by the figures and conclusions he presents. The former diplomat is part of an American-Israeli […]

Dec. 31, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Upon returning from Cairo on Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu proclaimed, “It’s time to move the peace process forward.” The most sympathetic interpretation of Netanyahu’s proclamation is that he was engaging in political theater. It was a low and dishonest statement uttered at the end of […]