Monthly Archives: October 2016

Weekly Commentary: Lesson of Yom Kippur War – Violations Can’t Be Fixed By Gizmos

Back on 30 September 2001, speaking at the main memorial service for those who died in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon noted that Israel was surprised in that war by Egypt because...

European human rights chiefs order the British press NOT to reveal when terrorists are...

  Report out from the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance Blames increase in hate crimes and racism in UK on the 'worrying examples of intolerance and hate speech in newspapers'  Claims Islamophobia rises when...

The Problem With Using the Tax Code to Punish Israeli Settlements

Why J Street’s push to revoke tax exemptions for groups supporting Jewish communities in the West Bank is unconstitutional J Street and like-minded progressives are campaigning to eliminate U.S. tax exemptions for charitable groups that provide support to Jewish communities...

Israeli Firm Revives Old Concept With Advanced Robotics

TEL AVIV — A small Israeli robotics-optronics firm has plans to revive the classic concept of armored decoys in defense of contemporary anti-tank missile threats to maneuvering forces. Developed and demonstrated by General Robotics with support from...

The United States, Syria, and Chemical Weapons: An Unfinished Symphony

Despite Syria’s repeated violations of Security Council Resolution 2118, including  use of chemical weapons, and the public and official recognition of these violations, the Obama administration continues to avoid any enforcement or any direct...

Israel fights a war in Gaza-Yet, the powers that are say that Gaza have...

The Hamas regime rules Gaza and which declares every day that it is sworn to a state of war to destroy Israel, invoking the war whoops of the Arab League in 1948 and 1967. Carmella...

A Destiny of Memories, Fire and Rain

A review by David Bedein David Ramati has written A Destiny of Memories, Fire and Rain which has already achieved eight five star ratings at Amazon. I would like to make it nine with this...

U.S. links defense aid to settlements

The US has linked its new defense aid agreement with Israel's policy in Judea and Samaria. In the first such move, the administration of President Barack Obama said Israeli support for the Jewish presence in...

Palestinian Holocaust Denial: An Assault on Truth

The denial of the Holocaust has deeply rooted credibility within the Palestinian society. Many believe that the death of six million Jews in Nazi death concentration camps is a hoax perpetrated by a powerful...

You ain’t heard nothing yet…writes Michael Kuttner

If you thought that this Jewish year just ending was a vintage one you had better strap yourselves in because the coming year promises to be action packed in more ways than one. Predicting political...