By: Yoram Ettinger Why a Palestinian state would be a threat to American, Israeli and even Arab national security. The idea that a Palestinian state can lead to enduring peace in the Middle East has become a diplomatic obsession for American policy makers. Bringing such a state into being has become the equivalent of finding […]

Jerusalem Post By Caroline Glick A central pillar of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy paradigm was shattered at the Fatah conference in Bethlehem – but don’t expect the White House to notice. At the conference, Fatah’s supposedly feuding old guard and young guard were united in their refusal to reach an accommodation with Israel. […]

Michael D. Evans , THE JERUSALEM POST Former President Jimmy Carter has just released a new book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan that Will Work in which he advocates a straightforward solution: Israel should embrace the Quartet [Russia, the UN, the EU and the US]. The plan is backed by […]

Unstable Mideast makes Judea, Samaria crucial for Israel’s security Yoram Ettinger In 1967, Israel demolished the military forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Consequently, Israel developed the “Low Probability Arab Offensive” concept. The 1973 War – along with Mideast unpredictability and objective intelligence constraints – devastated that concept, threatening the Jewish State with oblivion. In […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Back in October 2006, then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had urged Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to free imprisoned terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Her obviously naïve argument was that the Tanzim leader remained very popular among Palestinians, and that he was likely the only Fatah representative who could successfully advance the […]

Elections for the unions of UNRWA workers began on March 16, 2009 and ended on March 24, 2009. The results will be announced very soon. The UNRWA teachers’ union in the Gaza Strip has close to 7,000 members, the civil service sector has about 2,000 and the general UNRWA workers number about 1,500. Elections are […]

Obama’s pro-Arab statements haven’t eroded support for Israel in US Yoram Ettinger The American people display a robust, long-term support of the Jewish state in spite of President Obama’s policy and in defiance of the NY Times and Washington Post (which contrast the Wall Street Journal’s attitude toward Israel.) According to an August 10, 2009 […]

By: Edward Olshaker When radio host Don Imus crudely insulted the young African-American ladies on the Rutgers women’s basketball team, then-Senator Barack Obama called for Imus to be fired. Obama complained, understandably, that Imus “didn’t just cross the line. He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to […]

JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Vice Premier and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon seems to have recently forged a political partnership with Likud activist and head of Manhigut Yehudit (Jewish Leadership Movement) Moshe Feiglin, as evident in footage released Wednesday evening on Channel 2, in which Ya’alon also called ‘Peace Now’ and the Israeli […]