Happy Israel

http://www.danielpipes.org/12962/happy-Israel In a typically maladroit statement, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry recently complained that Israelis are too contented to end their conflict with the Palestinians: "People in Israel aren't waking up every day...

J Street’s Spin Reversed by CAMERA Op-Ed

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=2474 The Washington Jewish Week featured J Street, the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby in page one articles twice in April, published J Street opinion columns once that month and again in the May 16 edition,...

When Sunni and Shiite Extremists Make War

http://www.danielpipes.org/12961/syria-sunni-shiite-extremists In his article "The Muslim Civil War," Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal disagrees with my argument about Syria. He characterizes the position I hold this way: If al Qaeda fighters want to murder...

Samantha Power, Obama’s pick as America’s Ambassador to the UN, will fit right in

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/samantha_power_obamas_pick_as_americas_ ambassador_to_the_un_will_fit_right_in.html Samantha Power has been a notorious critic of Israel for years and that, naturally, makes her well-qualified under President Obama's criteria to serve in such a crucial post. She will be welcomed with open...

Hezbollah Involvement in the Syrian Civil War

For Iran and Hezbollah, the preservation of Bashar Assad's regime is of supreme strategic importance. Syria is Iran's greatest "resistance camp" ally, providing it with a firm foothold in the heart of the Middle...

Israel Worries Over Assad Offensive

Israel has been concerned that Syrian President Bashar Assad would defeat Sunni rebels over the next few months. Israel's intelligence community is closely following the Assad offensive against Sunni rebels in the spring of 2013....

Scanned PA school book material, translated by Dr. Arnon Groiss

What follows are scanned Palestinian Authority schoolbooks, currently in use in the school system of the Palestinian Authority schools, the UNRWA schools, and the Arab schools in Jerusalem..Each book appears in a separate file....

Jerusalem’s Decreasing Isolation

http://www.meforum.org/3483/israel-isolation While European guilt over its colonialist past facilitates the acceptance of the Palestinian-as-victim narrative and while the latent, traditional anti-Semitism that culminated in the Holocaust has never been eliminated, Israel is still not quite...

Putin is unreliable; on to direct messages to Assad

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4383560,00.html The bellicose statements issued by senior defense officials regarding Syria in the last three days are not accidental. This time, it seems, it is not a case of too many public appearances by the...

Iran Nuke Depends On Decision

The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Iran acquired all the technology required for nuclear weapons. Officials said the community determined that the Teheran regime has refined skills and technology to enable Iran to quickly...