By: Yael Ehrenpreis Meyer It is three days until Shavuot. All is quiet on the streets of Nitzan. The sun beats fiercely on the stark white stone caravillas; not a soul is in sight. Silence and emptiness are abruptly shattered as an immense truck appears, lumbers down a narrow street, and then comes to a […]

There Are Consequences for Choosing Aggression Published by The Jerusalem Post Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s resolute response to a State Department official’s objection to a Jewish building development in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem may actually close a 90-year-old chapter of the Arab-Israeli conflict and bring about a measure of justice. “We cannot accept […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Voices in America calling for downgrading US relations with Israel seem to multiply by the day. One of the new voices in the growing anti-Israel chorus is the Atlantic’s well-respected military affairs commentator, Robert Kaplan. This week Kaplan authored a column for the magazine’s online edition titled “Losing patience […]

By: Jamie Glazov Why the Jewish state is the only country with which the U.S. has worse relations since Obama took office. Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at Stanford University”s Hoover Institution. FP: Victor Davis Hanson, welcome to Frontpage Interview. I’d like to talk to you today about […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Preemption Options We have seen that, among other purposes, Israel needs nuclear weapons to undertake and/or to support various forms of conventional preemption. In making its preemption decisions, Israel must determine whether such essential defensive strikes, known jurisprudentially as expressions of anticipatory self-defense, would be cost-effective. This would depend upon a […]

By: Louis Rene Beres As we asked last week, why then must Israel remain a nuclear power? We continue with the detailed and complete answer that Prime Minister Netanyahu should prepare to transmit to President Obama. 6. Residually – as only a distinctly last resort – Israel needs nuclear weapons for nuclear war fighting. Although, […]

Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 572 July-August 2009 Nadav Shragai * The Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, that the Palestinians demand to transfer to their control, is the most important Jewish cemetery in the world. The area has constituted a religious and national pantheon for the Jewish people and the State of Israel, containing the […]

Caroline B. Glick The Jewish Press www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/40254 For ten years Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List. Now she’s a law professor at Northwestern University Law School where she teaches a course on law and the Palestinian conflict with Israel. During her time as co-commander of the Weather Underground […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) US Pres. Obama’s demand that Israel not settle Jews in the Biblical areas of Judea and Samaria ignores thoroughly-documented Jewish roots in the Land of Israel, and in Judea/Samaria in particular. Yoram Ettinger, a former liaison for Congressional affairs in Israel’s Washington embassy, lists in the latest of his periodic position […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Israel has released a 160-page report defending Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. The report aims to answer charges that the Israeli counterterror offensive was a “disproportionate” response to Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians, and accusations of war crimes. The report, titled The Operation in Gaza (27 December 2008 – 18 January […]