Dr. Aaron Lerner This week the protocols of some government meetings that took place immediately before and during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 was released to the public. Frankly speaking, there weren’t many surprises. Yet the reports did serve as an important reminder of just how dangerous “best case assumption” analysis can be. There’s […]

A striking aspect of the so-called building freeze in Judea and Samaria that expired last week is that an enormous amount of construction went on throughout the last 10 months. The Arabs of Judea and Samaria were not only building without restrictions, the US, Europe and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf bankrolled much […]

by Ruth King Just the Facts, Imam Daniel Greenfield Just the facts, Imam. A Muslim terrorist attack damaged a building, allowing Muslims to pick it up for a fraction of the price, in order to build a mosque on the spot. Some people might say that sort of thing is tacky. A little like coming […]

Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” YnetNews, October 5, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3964458,00.html George Mitchell, President Obama’s Special Envoy, is testing Prime Minister Netanyahu: Has he learned from past errors by repeating them – which would demolish his credibility– or by avoiding them, which would resurrect his domestic and international clout? In order to enhance his own clout and […]

[Editor’s note: the following is a speech Geert Wilders gave in Berlin on October 2, 2010.] Dear Friends, I am very happy to be here in Berlin today. As you know, the invitation which my friend René Stadtkewitz extended to me, has cost him his membership of the CDU group in the Berlin Parliament. René, […]

By Victor Sharpe Some years ago, posing as a supporter of the PLO, I infiltrated an Arab anti-Israel meeting held in a room above a London pub. There were mostly Arabs present with a sprinkling of non-Arabs, mostly local Brits. Among the Brits was a man who told the audience that he was also a […]

The big revelation this past week was the news that despite vehement past denials by J Street officials, the leftist financier George Soros has, in fact, been a major financial backer of the group. This is a really big deal on several counts. The fact that a leading critic of Israel – someone who recently […]

By Anne Bayefsky Wednesday in Geneva during the current session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Obama administration became a willing participant in the U.N.’s imposition of an apartheid-style ban on representatives of the state of Israel. Despite the promises made by the administration that by joining the Council the United States would not […]

By Moshe Dann President Obama’s latest effort to promote a “two-state” plan, his September 23 speech at the U.N., avoids the real problem. (Barry Rubin’s analysis of that speech is masterful.) Obama, his predecessors, and most other politicians and pundits base their “solution” on the false assumption that the conflict between Israel and its neighbors […]

By Lenny Ben-David The organization succeeded in identifying a leftist constituency looking for a voice in Washington. But ‘The Washington Times’ exposé is so devastating to its credibility and standing that its constituency needs a new champion Bravo to The Washington Times’s national security correspondent Eli Lake for his exposé of J Street over the […]