Dear Readers I’ve talked to neighbors, friends, and acquaintances, who say they are going to vote for Obama. The reasons they give sum up to ‘he is friendly and he seems one of us.’ But some would frown thoughtfully as they said it. I asked: do you know how his economic plan would affect you? […]

By Caroline B. Glick Date: Wednesday, October 29 2008 Over the past two weeks, the Israeli media have renewed their witch hunt against religious Zionists in the IDF. These assaults have become seasonal affairs. Usually there is a proximate cause, such as anticipation of a deal with the Palestinians, to spur their attacks. But sometimes […]

Micah Halpern When Ephraim Halevy has something to say, people listen. And Halevy, former chief of the Mossad, does not believe Israelis should be involved in American politics. The Obama camp, apparently, thinks otherwise. In an Obama ad running on YouTube and on television and radio, prominent Israeli heroes are seen and heard endorsing Barack […]

By Philippe Karsenty A week before Americans vote, Obama has already been elected President of the United States…of Europe. From first hand experience, I can tell you that the French love him and have already chosen him for their/your president. It’s true! Only last month, his victory was celebrated on the cover of a French […]

Oct. 27, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s failure to form a government proved that all roads do in fact lead to Jerusalem. It was the issue of Jerusalem that deadlocked and ultimately scuttled Livni’s coalition negotiations with Shas, which demanded that she pledge not to negotiate the partition of […]

Avraham Shmuel Lewin, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent Posted Oct 22 2008 ‘I Will Be The Next Mayor Of Jerusalem’ , Avraham Shmuel Lewin, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent The Jewish Press Speaks With MK Meir Porush Seven days after Americans go to the polls to elect a new president on Nov. 4, Jerusalemites will be voting […]

By Morton A. Klein and Daniel Mandel JewishChronicle.org | Thursday, October 09, 2008 On June 20, 1995, the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin boasted, “[The Opposition] promised us Katyusha [rockets] from Gaza, but Gaza has been under the primary control of the Palestinian Authority for more than a year now, and there hasn’t been […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 23 October 2008 “In an effort to maintain momentum on the ground in the absence of a peace deal with the Palestinians, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has drawn up a plan under which Palestinian security forces would take control of several key West Bank cities during the coming year. The “Jenin […]

William Mehlman “There is no ‘there’ there,” Gertrude Stein famously remarked of her Oakland, California birthplace. The “there,” whose thereness is conjectural at best in the minds of half the Israeli populace, is Judea and Samaria. Its definition is also a matter of conjecture. When former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert contemplated the 98.1 percent of […]

Yoram Ettinger, News First Class, Oct. 17, 2008­10­18 http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/003-D-32561-00.html?tag=18-56-41 Simultaneously with the collapse of the global economy ­ and away from media attention ­ there has been an unprecedented collapse of demography in the world at-large and between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean in particular. Such a demographic development directly impacts critical policy considerations, […]