Daniel Pipes , THE JERUSALEM POST The much-anticipated meeting between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu on May 18 went off smoothly, if a bit tensely, as predicted. Everyone was on best behavior and the event excited so little attention that The New York Times reported it on page 12. As expected, however, the gloves came […]

Yoram Ettinger, Ynet President Obama and his advisors pressure Prime Minister Netanyahu to avoid intensive contacts with Congress. They claim that such contacts would undermine the Presidency, and would therefore damage US-Israel relations. However, refraining from such contacts would demote Congress into a “Supporting Actor”, and thus would be an insult to the American People, […]

By: Caroline B. Glick Have American Jews abandoned Israel in favor of President Obama? This is a central question in the minds of Israelis today. In a poll of Israeli Jews conducted in mid-June by the Jerusalem Post, a mere 6 percent of respondents said they view Obama as pro-Israel. In stark contrast, a Gallup […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner When Netanyahu spoke in his 14 June speech at the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar-Ilan University of the imperative that there be guarantees that a Palestinian state would indeed be a “demilitarized state” without ever using the words “independent” or “sovereign” to describe the state he left a few microns of wiggle room […]

By: Phyllis Chesler Journalist Aaron Klein’s important new book, The Late Great State of Israel: How Enemies Within and Without Threaten the Jewish Nation’s Survival, illuminates, infuriates, saddens, and cries out to both heaven and humanity. Klein – Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily and a weekly Jewish Press columnist – says he chose his book’s […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST “Could there be something to all the talk of an Obama effect, after all? A stealth effect, perhaps?” So asked Helene Cooper, the New York Times’ diplomatic correspondent in a news analysis of the massive anti-regime protests in Iran published in Sunday’s Times. It took US President Barack Obama […]

By: Shlomo Z. Mostofsky and Rabbi Pesach Lerner Date: Wednesday, June 17 2009 For decades, the bedrock of the relationship between the United States and Israel has been an unbreakable bond built on trust and a mutual respect for the ideals and practices of democracy. Surrounded by enemies on all sides, Israel has always known […]

By: Steven Plaut The Israeli media and the Israeli Left (but I repeat myself) have been hysterical in recent weeks over a proposed bill that would make it illegal to hold anti-Israel “mourning” events on Israel’s Independence Day, events that would declare Israel’s very existence a “nakba” (or catastrophe in Arabic). Nakba commemorations are in […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has welcomed several aspects of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech – his statement of the conflict’s basis in Arab non-acceptance of Jewish statehood; the need for Palestinians to accept Israel and end terror and incitement; that Jerusalem should remain undivided; that Jews stem from the Jewish homeland and are […]