The American Israeli Action Coalition (AIAC) today called upon the Vatican to cease all of its efforts to push Israel to cede sovereignty to the Vatican over certain sites in Israel, as well as to make “gestures of friendship” to Israel to begin to compensate for the historic acts of unspeakable injustices which it inflicted […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Date: Wednesday, April 29 2009 From an existential standpoint, Israel must quickly change its strategic and diplomatic course, or prepare to disappear in increments. More specifically, with a new prime minister in place, Israel will soon need to reassess its presumed faith in the so-called Road Map to Peace in the […]

1. The Israel Prize generally goes to the most anti-Israel or anti-Semitic professor that the leftists on the prize award committee can identify. And this year was no exception. My guess is Iran’s Ahmadinejad should get it next year. The recipient this year was Professor Yehuda “Judd” Neeman, from the TV and Film department at […]

May. 5, 2009 Lenny Ben-David , THE JERUSALEM POST www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710872891&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull AIPAC’s annual conference opened this week to the auspicious news that the US Justice Department will drop its case against two former AIPAC employees on espionage-related charges based on a 90-year-old statute. But the original charges brought against Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman left […]

William Mehlman The opacity of the Obama administration’s professed dedication to the safety and security of Israel becomes more pronounced with each passing week. Former U.S. ambassador Charles Freeman’s aborted appointment to the chairmanship of the president’s National Intelligence Council is history, but its reverberations refuse to subside. By now we all know why this […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 29 April 2009 Should Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gloss over the very significant differences between the faith-based ideological position espoused by President Obama that a sovereign Palestinian state is the absolute only possible “solution” to the Arab Israeli conflict and Netanyahu’s mature realistic stand that a sovereign Palestinian state would be […]

by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com April 1, 2009 http://www.danielpipes.org/6257/arabs-israelis-and-underdogs “Who, a century back, would have imagined Jews making the better soldiers and Arabs the better publicists?” I asked back in 2005. A foremost example of the Arabs’ p.r. prowess lies in their ability to transform the map of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the early decades, maps […]

By Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com | 4/24/2009 Does terrorism work, meaning, does it achieve its perpetrators’ objectives? With terror attacks having become a routine and nearly daily occurrence, especially in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, the conventional wisdom holds that terrorism works very well. For example, the late Ehud Sprinzak of the Hebrew University ascribed the prevalence […]

by Yoram Ettinger (IsraelNN.com) The Palestinian issue was a deal-breaker during Israel-Egypt peace negotiation. In defiance of Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski – the “Palestine Firsters” – and in spite of Palestinian terrorist threats, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat introduced a Palestinian-bypass, thus concluding a peace accord. Their determination to overcome White House and Foggy […]

By: Louis René Beres Date: Friday, April 17 2009 Until now, the strategic issue of Israel’s nuclear ambiguity – the so-called “bomb in the basement” – has been kept squarely on the back burner. Today, however, time is quickly running out for the Jewish State, and Israel’s new/old prime minister absolutely must reconsider this burning […]