When Did Historical Accuracy Stop Mattering?
Times of Israel editor David Horovitz and I do not always have the same political perspective. Nu? This is to be expected: Opinions vary. His writing is smooth and often insightful.
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Weekly Commentary: Coalition To Make History Or Waste Opportunity?
For years Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been postponing many actions relating to Judea and Samaria as he waits for the perfect moment.
It is said that a near death experience can change a person's...
News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (September 11-16, 2019)
This week, the return march was characterized by a relatively high level of violence. Many IEDs, grenades and Molotov cocktails were thrown at IDF forces. Palestinians attempted to damage the security fence and even...
Toss of the coin
Mercifully we are heading down the straight towards the finishing line on 17 September at which time citizens will need to make an informed decision as to which group of politicians will make up...
Palestine is a Geographical Area, Not a Nationality
Palestine is a name coined by the Romans around 135 CE from the name of a seagoing Aegean people who settled on the coast of Canaan in antiquity – the Philistines. The name was...
Media Advisory: No cease fire was reached in Gaza this week
As journalists cover the complexities of the Middle East reportage, news agencies often interpret a lull in hostilities as an "armistice" or a "cease-fire", which brings to mind to the agreement that led to...
Abbas Wants a Humanitarian Crisis
In February, Israel finally decided that it would implement the law that was passed last year allowing Israel to withhold and freeze funds used by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to pay Arab terrorists, and...
The False “Nakba” Narrative
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The term “Nakba,” originally coined to describe the magnitude of the self-inflicted Palestinian and Arab defeat in the 1948 war, has become in recent decades a synonym for Palestinian victimhood, with failed...
Israel’s rights to the Golan Heights
The Golan Heights is a basaltic plateau region in the far northeast of Israel. Its average altitude is 900 m (3,000 ft.) above sea level. At the north of the Heights is Mount Hermon,...