Louis René Beres Posted Mar 11 2009 In Washington, there has been little learned from lessons of the past. On March 3, Hillary Clinton said that the Obama Administration will “vigorously pursue” the creation of a Palestinian state. Further, continued the Secretary of State, movement toward Palestinian independence now seems “inescapable.” But, for the United […]

By Adam Hasner Barely a month into the presidency of Barack Obama, a profound realization is spreading among the pro-Israel community: we do not have an ally in the White House. The growing threat that Israel and the Jewish People now face demands an immediate acceptance of the “facts on the ground” regarding President Obama’s […]

By David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Are American college students being indoctrinated in their classrooms? Some recent studies say no. Closed Minds? is a survey of 1270 professors conducted by authors associated with the Brookings Institution. The survey asked these academics what their political persuasion was and whether they […]

by Michael Freund (IsraelNN.com) (Originally published by the Orthodox Union.) A few months ago, the normally hostile Iranian regime took the rather unusual step of adding a Jewish holy site to its National Heritage List. On December 9, 2008, Iranian news outlets reported that the tomb of Mordechai and Esther, heroes of the Purim saga, […]

Mar. 9, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST In an interview with Teheran Times two weeks ago, Norman Finklestein, the notorious Hizbullah and Hamas supporter and all-purpose anti-Semite, called Israel a “vandal state,” and “insane state,” a “terrorist state,” and a “satanic state.” Last week Finklestein was the keynote speaker at both Emory University […]

David Wilder March 08, 2009 On September 7, 1995 Binyamin Netanyahu, candidate for Prime Minister, while visiting Hebron, issued the following statement: The Jewish settlement will remain in Hebron permanently. If someone tries to take it away, my friends and I will be here, and they will have to take us away as well. It […]

As reported by the guardian.co.uk on March 7, 2009 “A confidential EU report accuses the Israeli government using settlement expansion … ‘actively pursuing the illegal annexation’ of East Jerusalem.” March 8, 2009 | Eli E. Hertz Palestinian Arabs, supported by the EU and the U.S. have nurtured a myth that historically there were two Jerusalems […]

Yoram Ettinger, March 6, 2009 Assembled from various Jewish Sages 1. THE TIMING – THE JEWISH MONTH OF ADAR. Adar is the root of the Hebrew adjective “Adir” (glorious, awesome, exalted, magnificent) and the Hebrew verb “Le’Ha’adir” (to glorify), which are frequently employed in the Old Testament (e.g. the Hymn of the Sea following the […]

By: Louis René Beres Israel has elected a new prime minister. From the start – and even before he begins to consider assorted specific issues for negotiation with other governments and organizations – he will have to determine whether any form of diplomacy is actually indicated. Although, on the surface, such advice may appear distinctly […]

March 5, 2009 MOSHE DANN, THE JERUSALEM POST The economy, terrorism and national defense are priorities for every country. But Israel adds an essential factor: historical memory. Egypt has its pyramids; Rome has its Colosseum; Athens has its Acropolis – but, citizens of a modern state, the native populations feel little or no connection to […]