Monthly Archives: July 2016

The 28 Pages that Damn Saudi Arabia

More puzzling than the elusive pages from the Congressional 9/11 inquiry is why Obama released them, and specifically, why now. The president apparently believes it will burnish his legacy, embarrass his enemies and...

Finally: Congress Asking UNRWA for Real Number of Palestinian Refugees

Both houses of Congress are at work to modify funding bills for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), as part of an effort to investigate the very legitimacy of the decades-old agency,...

Alternative opportunities….writes Michael Kuttner

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long you miss them.” This quote by William Arthur Ward, American author and motivational speaker, succinctly sums up the situation Israel currently finds itself in. One of...

Solving the Problems of Europe…In Israel

I was advised to remove all of my jewelry indicating I was Jewish before getting on the airplane to France very recently. France’s reputation for violent anti-Semitism truly precedes it on a global scale, and...

Three​ generations of Bedeins wish you a Shabbat Shalom

Noam, David, Lavie (age 7 months, son of Noam ) and Meira.

Administration Defends UN-Funded, Anti-Israel Textbooks for Palestinians

U.S. taxpayers provide nearly $400 million a year to a United Nations program that critics say sends anti-Semitic, anti-Israel textbooks to schools for Palestinian refugees. An elementary school textbook calls the 1948 establishment of Israel...

Cakes and Coffee: Genocide in Jerusalem

I sit in a room of academics. Their heads constantly moving. At first they were nodding in agreement with the speaker, now however they bob back and forth to stay awake. A collective frustration...

The Truth About Settlement Growth

On Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predictably assailed Israel’s announced decision to build 800 new apartments in Ma’aleh Adumim and eastern Jerusalem. He noted that just four days earlier, the Middle East Quartet (i.e....

THE HIDDEN INDUSTRY OF ANTI-ISRAEL ISRAEL TOURS

Every year, there is a myriad of overseas visitors to Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) who, at any given point in the year, take part in some organized program of subtle anti-Israel political...

Do houses matter more than Jews?‎

In the wake of the report of the Middle East Quartet, which called on Israel to cease settlement ‎construction and expansion, the U.S. State Department this week issued an unusually harsh statement against ‎Israel....