By DANIEL PIPES US President Barack Obama’s assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, John O. Brennan, conveniently outlined the administration’s present and future policy mistakes in a speech on August 6, “A New Approach for Safeguarding Americans.” To start with, his address to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, has an unusual […]

By: Nonie Darwish It’s called Sharia. With the explosive current events in Gaza, the world needs to understand the roots of this eternal conflict, otherwise we are all kidding ourselves with hopes of peace. For decades, Arabs had demanded that Israel end the “occupation,” and in 2005, Israel did so, disengaging unilaterally from Gaza. With […]

Contact: Gary Ratner Phone 1: 212-481-1500 The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the World Archaeological Congress (WAC) for convening its conference (held in Palestinian Authority-controlled Ramallah) for excluding Israel, one of the world’s most prominent countries containing major archeological sites of world significance. According to reports, the WAC conference, entitled ‘Overcoming Structural Violence,’ […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418604154&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull 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 […]

By Eric Fingerhut REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK WASHINGTON (JTA) — While criticism of President Obama’s demand for an Israeli settlement freeze has been relatively muted among U.S. Jewish organizations, this week’s Christians United for Israel conference here provided the opportunity for some prominent Jews and Christians to level some public complaints. Far and away the most forceful […]

By: Shoshana Greenwald Memo to the New York Public Library: I’m sorry that I still haven’t returned several books by Livia Bitton-Jackson. They are a series of vibrant, touching memoirs of a young girl navigating her way through the world, both literally and on an emotional plane; the stories of a Holocaust survivor with wanderlust […]

Tension is escalating between the U.S and Israel. The problem: The administration views the Israeli-Palestinian issue as the root of all problems, while Israel is focused on Iran’s nuclear threat, says Elliott Abrams. By ELLIOTT ABRAMS The tension in U.S.-Israel relations was manifest this past week as an extraordinary troupe of Obama administration officials visited […]

By Barry Rubin* www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2009/08/hooray-for-jihad.html I’m beginning to understand the Obama administration strategy, at least in its initial phase, as a “bridge too far” approach. That expression came after the heroic Allied operation at Arnheim in World War Two, when what seemed a clever idea-to capture a key bridge far ahead of the existing Allied lines-turned […]

By: John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com We have grown accustomed to the bloodlust of the radical Islamic state of Iran, and of its determination, in league with terror organizations such as Hizbollah and Hamas, to annihilate Israel. What is new is the degree to which the Middle East conflict has been brought home to America by radical […]

John Podhoretz From issue: July/August 2009 Barack Obama began the first week of June with a series of interviews on the eve of his journey to Cairo to deliver his address to the “Muslim world.” In all of them, he spoke of the Israeli-Palestinian situation and the central importance of resolving it as part of […]