OBAMA’S LEGACY OF HOPE AND CHANGE IN THE MID EAST: “Too often Western leaders...

President Barack Obama promised that his election meant not only "hope and change" for America but for the world, especially the Middle East. President Obama criticized America's past actions while touting his own Islamic...

Obama Egypt Strategy Could Place US at Risk

The Obama administration continues to turn up the heat on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, after two years of quietly monitoring human rights abuses by his regime and doing nothing. The rapid response of the White...

Will the Real Mohammed El Baradei Please Stand Up?

In the name of democratic reform, Mohammed ElBaradei is doing his best to appear as the annointed one to succeed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek, should the government fall. In reality, ElBaradei has more in common with...

Tunisia, Egypt, Arab world need bold US support for democracy, not mixed messages

For at least three decades, America's relationship with the Arab world has been defined along these lines. The State Department's institutional knowledge and contacts in the region are all oriented around the regimes in power,...

What Palestinians Are Saying Online

During the past decade, Washington has repeatedly failed to gauge the extent of Palestinian anti-peace sentiments with devastating consequences. The July 2000 Camp David summit triggered the worst wave of Palestinian violence since 1948...

Will revolt in Tunisia inspire others? What it will take for the Arab world...

JewishWorldReview.com | AIRO -(MCT)Hours after riots forced Tunisian President Zine el Abidine ben Ali to flee his country, hundreds of Egyptians poured into the streets of Cairo with a warning to their own authoritarian president,...

SIX MONTREAL JEWISH INSTITUTIONS VANDALIZED LAST SUNDAY: IS THERE A DUTY TO REPORT? WHY...

Vandalism caused $85,000 of damage over two months ago to Young Israel of Chomedey Synagogue in Laval. Back of the vandalized Young Israel of Chomedey Synagogue after vandalism. Irwin Cotler DOES FEAR OF TRIGGERING “COPY CATS” JUSTIFY...

The State Department’s Israel End-Run

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“The Shepherd Hotel in Perspective”

This is going to be a two-part posting. I participated in a tour of eastern Jerusalem, which incorporated the Shepherd hotel of Sheikh Jarrah as well as part of the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood. Today, I...

The “Two-State Delusion” I: Who Wants a “Two-State Solution”?

Following the U.S. lead, the near universal consensus appears to be that the Arab-Israel conflict can be resolved only by the establishment of a Palestinian State in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and...