ZOA: JEWISH GROUPS SHOULD HAVE TOLD OBAMA – SETTLEMENT ISSUE CAMOUFLAGES REAL ISSUE OF ARAB TERRORISM, INCITEMENT AND ISRAEL’S LEGITIMACY President Obama invited a small group of Jewish organizations to the White House for a meeting on Monday, July 13 to discuss the increasing concern and fear of American Jews of Obama’s hostile policies toward […]

by Gerald A. Honigman (Israelnationalnews.com) At a daily briefing on January 9, 1992, State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutwiler was asked about accepting the word “Palestinian” when referring to the territories of the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem. Her answer was that the US had accepted this usage since 1979, but that it was for “descriptive” […]

JINSA Report #907 There was much parsing of the guest list, the questions or lack of questions, whether the President listened or talked, whether “the Jews” liked or didn’t like what they heard. As veterans of meetings with Presidents – Democrats and Republicans with whom we agreed and disagreed – let us say, this meeting, […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Finally, Vice President Biden has acknowledged what has been argued in this column and elsewhere for several years. Speaking for the president, to be sure, Biden asserted that Israel, as a “sovereign nation,” has every right to protect itself against a nuclearizing Iran. Understood in terms of international law, the precise […]

Jsl’m Cloakroom #224, July 10 1. The Mideast context since the 7th century: The most fragmented, conflict-ridden, unstable, unpredictable, volatile region; no inter-Arab comprehensive peace, no compliance with all inter-Arab agreements, no ratification of all inter-Arab boundaries, no Arab democracy; the cradle of Islamic terrorism, homicide bombers, hijacking, Improvised Explosive Device (IED), car-bombing and modern […]

How strange that the Prime Minister of Israel demands that the PLO recognize that Israel is a Jewish State when he and his government refuse to do so! Any Jewish leader who is prepared to build a PLO state upon Jewish soil, no matter how he chooses to define that state, is, in fact, denying […]

Jul. 13, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST In an interview with Britain’s Sky News over the weekend, US President Barack Obama was asked whether he is planning to accept Syrian President Bashar Assad’s invitation to visit Damascus. The very fact that an American presidential visit to the Syrian capital is on the international […]

Will Netanyahu Change Israel Forever? By Moshe Phillips While keen observers of Israel’s political scene clearly understand that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel’s most Americanized prime minister in its history, little is ever discussed as to what this means for the future of Israel’s political system. Prime Minister Netanyahu has spent more time in […]

By: Louis René Beres Date: Wednesday, July 08 2009 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 […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner In the absence of an official written statement released by U.S. President Obama setting a clear unconditional time limit to a “temporary” settlement freeze it is reasonable to expect that any “temporary” freeze the Netanyahu team agrees to could very well become permanent. There is every reason to expect the Obama team, […]