By: Kenneth Levin The Obama administration’s high-profile focus on Israeli settlements and demand for a total freeze of construction beyond the pre-1967 armistice line have delighted many around the world, some of whom may even believe that settlements are the major obstacle to peace. But such views, like the administration’s slant on the issue, are […]

1. Napoleon was walking at night in the streets of Paris, hearing sad voices emanating from a synagogue. When told that the wailing/lamenting commemorated a 586 BCE catastrophe, he stated: “Any People which solemnizes its ancient history is destined for a glorious future!” Memory is deliverance; Forgetfulness is oblivion. 2. The Ninth Day of Av […]

By Leo Rennert A huge crack has surfaced in Obama’s Jewish base in the person of Alan Solow, one of the president’s closest Chicago friends and long-time supporters. Solow, who was named chairman of the Conference of President of Major Jewish Organizations last December, just released a highly critical statement on behalf of the 52-member […]

By: Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Date: Wednesday, July 22 2009 If George F. Will comes across to some as a starchy combination of ministerial and professorial, he can blame it on his genes: The longtime columnist is, after all, the grandson of a Lutheran minister and the son of a philosophy professor. He is also […]

By: Frontpagemag.com Frontpage hosts a heated debate about Obama and Israel. In this special edition of Frontpage Symposium, we are honored to have with us: Melanie Phillips, a British columnist and author whose articles appear regularly in the Daily Mail newspaper and focus on political and social issues. Visit her site at melaniephillips.com. and Alan […]

By: Louis Rene Beres In his clearly expressed preference for a world without nuclear weapons, U.S. President Obama means well. Viscerally, at least, his idealized vision of a non-nuclear world certainly seems desirable. But the deeper intellectual and policy issue is not just the enduring and possibly irremediable security problem of strategic uncertainty and verification […]

Jul. 21, 2009 AMNON LORD , THE JERUSALEM POST I admit I was mistaken about the direction the relationship between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government would take. It seemed consensual that the two-state solution was on its way to the freezer with a tag attached: “See under ‘solutionism.’” This would have placed the […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner There are two possible explanations for the gift the Obama team gave to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu when, by specifically raising their objection to Jewish ownership of a building in the heart of Jerusalem, they succeeded in rallying all but the radical Israeli politicians to support Netanyahu’s stance. That’s including the support […]

Aaron Klein Exposes the Truth About Illegal Settlement Activity I recently met my friend, Helen Freedman, at the U Café. This café on the upper east side is my local watering hole, an oasis, a village well, where I meet people for coffee. Sometimes, when it’s quiet, I just sit there and read, as if […]

By: Louis René Beres At a moment when Israel is under new jurisprudential assaults from those world leaders who would pay no attention to pertinent international law (most conspicuously, President Obama’s commitment to a still one-sided “Road Map”), it may be a good time to recall previous episodes of more-or-less similar disregard. One such episode […]