by Jeff Jacoby (Israelnationalnews.com) Is Barack Obama channeling George H. W. Bush? Twenty years ago this month, the first President Bush refused to condemn China’s communist rulers when they unleashed a violent assault on pro-democracy demonstrators in the streets of Beijing. The Obama White House seems deliberately to be taking a page from the elder […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Some things never change. Even (or especially) more-or-less apocalyptic threats recur. “It is in the thick of a calamity,” says Albert Camus in The Plague, “that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words, to silence.” As my faithful readers here in The Jewish Press already know, “silence” is what […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner “One has to understand that sovereignty has its own independent power. Even if an agreement is signed that ostensibly limits or cuts out such authorities, within a short period the Palestinian state will demand all of these rights and will also exercise them. And it doesn’t matter if we agree to it […]

National Council of Young Israel President Shlomo Z. Mostofsky, Esq., made the following statement today in response to former President Jimmy Carter’s declaration that he will ask President Obama to remove Hamas’ designation as a terrorist organization: “Once again, President Carter is making statements and advocating positions that defy reality and which show a palpable […]

Louis René Beres∗ Early in his presidency, Barack Obama declared his solid commitment to a Palestinian state. In principle, this now oft-repeated declaration of support for Palestinian “self-determination”1 might not have been unreasonable if the Palestinian side were also committed to a “Two-State Solution”. Yet, both Fatah and Hamas – even as they slaughter each […]

By Richard Cohen To far more people than we would like to admit, the mystery of James W. von Brunn, the alleged shooter at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is not that he held such weird and depraved views about Jews and the Holocaust, but that those views are considered weird and depraved. In vast parts […]

Rick Richman – June 10, 2009 Will C George F. Will was the featured speaker at the dinner Monday evening at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, in celebration of the Claremont Review of Books. Will received the Salvatori Prize in the American Founding, and gave a masterful speech that included a mixture of […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s speech Sunday evening at Bar-Ilan University had one goal: To get US President Barack Obama off of Israel’s back. Netanyahu’s speech was an eloquent, rational and at times impassioned defense of Israel. For Israeli ears, after years of former prime minister Ehud Olmert’s and former […]

David Wilder My fellow countrymen, Yesterday, on the holy day of Shabbat, worshipping at a synagogue close to my Jerusalem home, I listened intently to the weekly Torah portion. It tells the story of 12 spies, sent by Moses, to study Eretz Yisrael and its residents, prior to the Israelites entering into the Land. The […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Ahead of his current trip to the Middle East, US President Barack Obama’s Middle East envoy George Mitchell made what might have been construed as a positive step in Israel’s direction. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Mitchell said that he and Obama wish to restart peace negotiations between Israel […]