What are they smoking?…asks Michael Kuttner

This has been another vintage week during which many individuals once again demonstrated an uncanny ability to detach from truthful reality. First off the block was New Zealand’s Foreign Minister who predictably performed according to...

Letting terrorists off the hook for killing Americans

It looks like there’s a new red line in the Middle East. It has been laid down by the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals, which just let the Palestinian Authority off the hook...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Associated Press

My Message to President Abbas: 5 Steps for Peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MtEsV9LCFo President Abbas, Since over the past several years, you refused to meet me and sit down and negotiate peace, I hope you’ll hear this message. First, your advisor, Sultan Abu al Einein recently called to slit...

Democrats promote “Palestinian rights” in new platform

Spurred on by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Democratic National Committee, has made changes in the party’s platform that focuses on “Palestinian aspirations”. In a report emailed to Associated Press Saturday by the Sander’s campaign, the...

The 28 Pages that Damn Saudi Arabia

More puzzling than the elusive pages from the Congressional 9/11 inquiry is why Obama released them, and specifically, why now. The president apparently believes it will burnish his legacy, embarrass his enemies and...

Solving the Problems of Europe…In Israel

I was advised to remove all of my jewelry indicating I was Jewish before getting on the airplane to France very recently. France’s reputation for violent anti-Semitism truly precedes it on a global scale, and...

Cakes and Coffee: Genocide in Jerusalem

I sit in a room of academics. Their heads constantly moving. At first they were nodding in agreement with the speaker, now however they bob back and forth to stay awake. A collective frustration...

The Truth About Settlement Growth

On Monday, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predictably assailed Israel’s announced decision to build 800 new apartments in Ma’aleh Adumim and eastern Jerusalem. He noted that just four days earlier, the Middle East Quartet (i.e....

Spotlight on Iran

On June 19, 2016, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif removed Hossein-Amir bdollahian, deputy foreign minister for Arab-African affairs, from his post and replaced him with Hossein Jaberi Ansari, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman. The...

Weekly Commentary: Demonstrating that US stand on construction not acceptable

"We are familiar with the American position . It is not new. It is also not acceptable to us." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 6 July 2016 Let's put the cards on the table. We have had a building...