‘Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace’ J Street backs congressmen who do not support Israel

http://freebeacon.com/the-anti-israel-lobby/ The self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” liberal advocacy group J Street is soliciting funds for congressional candidates who are openly hostile to Israel while simultaneously targeting for defeat explicitly pro-Israel lawmakers who do not agree with...

Anarchy Surrounds Israel

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/309944/anarchy-surrounds-israel-daniel-pipes Of Israel’s neighbors, Lebanon always stood out by virtue of its weak central government, but for the first 20 years, 1948-68, this did not present difficulties to Israel; only when the Palestinians created a...

Into the Fray: Obama, Islam and Israel

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=290199 Photo: Yuri Gripas / Reuters There is much that binds the US and Israel together. Nonetheless, both political prudence and past experience suggest that the Israeli leadership should not disregard the prospect that the congruence...

Converging Toward Hamas

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3764/converging-toward-hamas There are many points of disagreement between Fatah and Hamas; so many that they fought an ugly civil war in 2007, leaving Hamas in control of Gaza and Fatah in control of the West...

An Open Letter to the New Israel Fund

http://en.imti.org.il/article.php?id=20 NIF-funded organizations are at it again. B’tselem, Adalah, Gisha, and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel are claiming that IDF soldiers defending Israel against endless terrorist rocket attacks are war criminals. Im Tirtzu will...

Israel at Peace

http://www.danielpipes.org/12145/israel-at-peace Those concerned with the security and welfare of the Jewish state keep asking questions like "Is Israel Doomed? " and Will Israel Survive? (also in French, Israël peut-il survivre? ). One even titled a...

In the service of the Palestinians

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4371351,00.html British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould is doing all he can for the Palestinian army, which he claims plays a crucial role in the establishment of a Palestinian state. He is urging Israel to...

US Military Intervention in Syria: The Broad Strategic Purpose, Beyond Punitive Action

http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=11973 Until the publication of reports that Bashar Assad’s army carried out a large attack using chemical weapons in an eastern suburb of Damascus, Washington had not seriously considered military intervention in Syria. In light...

Shia-Sunni schism: A challenge to world peace

http://dawn.com/news/1057412/shia-sunni-schism-a-challenge-to-world-peace The recent violence in Rawalpindi or the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Beirut are not the only manifestations of the intra-Muslim sectarian discord. The inability of Muslims to settle a 7th century dispute...

UNRWA: 64 Years Later

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/12/m-unrwa_64_years_later.html "A great evil has been loosed upon the world," said former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Daniel Patrick Moynihan, following a 1975 United Nations Resolution declaring Zionism as a "form of racism...