Incisive Commentary

Posting: December 15, 2007 Motzei Shabbat (after Shabbat) "Har Homa" The plans to build further units in Har Homa -- they would not extend Har Homa, but would be built inside the area already established -- were...

“Tension in the North”

Posting: April 2, 2008 "Tension in the North" A report by a 'top military intelligence officer" to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday included a warning that Hezbollah is getting ready for new violence...

Antisemitism Embedded in British Culture

Antisemitism has been present in Great Britain for almost a thousand years of recorded history. In the twelfth century, Catholic medieval Britain was a persecutory society, particularly when it came to Jews. It pioneered...

The Palestinian Perspective on the American Election

Posting: November 4, 2008 "A Report That Matters" If it's not too late... in case it makes a difference. I had to run this. According to YNET, Al Ahkbar, a Lebanese daily, is running the following story...

Hamas Attacks Israel Air Force Bases

The Middle East Newsline has uncovered that Hamas has succeeded in striking Israeli Air Force (IAF) bases. Israeli military sources have confirmed that Hamas struck at least two air force bases within a 35-mile vicinity...

Durban II Cover- up From the Obama Administration

The Obama administration's decision to join the planning of the U.N.'s Durban II "anti-racism" conference has just taken a new twist: cover-up. On Friday, State Department officials and a member of the American Durban...

Israeli-Arab NGO using American Jewish donations to defame Israel

“The soldiers are the grandchildren of the Nazis' victims, the Nazis' survivors. They have come here to consume food quickly and consume life quickly. This is the true image of Israel.” So goes a news story posted on the website of the Nazareth based NGO I’lam: Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel. (http://tinyurl.com/m385me )

Israel Not The Cause of Gazans’ Woe

Many Palestinians in Gaza, no matter their religious affiliation or political bent, are living in squalor and growing ignorance. Thousands are trying to flee. Gaza has never been a prosperous enclave; the 140-square-mile territory has...

Muslim World: Iran–The End Is Not Nigh

http://www.gloria-center.org/Gloria/2010/01/muslim-world-iran The ongoing demonstrations in Iran are testimony to the continued strength and resilience of Iranian civil society. They make a mockery of the Islamic Republic's ambition of offering a model for successful Muslim governance...

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen: Ready to play hardball

Photo by: courtesy The new House Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman says she is determined to ‘show Israel that we are strongly in its corner.' WASHINGTON - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wasn’t pleased. She had just moved into her...