Obama Buries the Hatchet–in Netanyahu’s Head

It was obvious that after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s clear election victory, the Obama administration and the president himself would try to bury the hatchet. After all, Obama and Netanyahu must survive the...

No peace in our time

Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are now dead because Netanyahu has declared that there will be...

Israeli Correspondent Offers In-Depth Analysis Of Election

UPDATE: At 10 PM local time tonight, the three major Israeli TV channels published their exit polls. Channel 1 and Channel 10 exit polls showed Zionist Union and Likud tied at 27 seats. Channel...

White House: It is wrong to encourage non-Arab Israelis to vote to offset foreign...

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Let's get this straight: The Likud Party didn't encourage its members to try to interfere with Israeli Arabs as they went about participating in the Knesset elections. All the Likud Party...

Israel election: What Netanyahu’s victory means

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." That Churchillian one-liner summarizes the glorious chaos that is Israeli politics. In the one...

Israel and the Gaza strip: Why economic sanctions are not collective punishment

Executive Summary The economic measures that Israel uses against the Hamas proto-government in Gaza fall under legitimate uses of economic sanctions, and conform to the requirements set forth in Article 50 of the 1899 Hague...

The Neglected Issue of the Israeli electoral campaign: maps proximity of the missiles of...

In 1988, when foreign press in Israel had less staff than they do today, our agency covered the Israeli elections for the New York Times, Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, with a staff of five...
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office, September 2013. (Pete Souza / Courtesy Reuters)

Senate Committee Launches Investigation into Obama Effort to Oust Netanyahu

According to a FOX News report, a powerful U.S. Senate investigatory committee has launched a bipartisan probe into an American nonprofit’s funding of efforts to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the Obama...

Hamas Owns Netanyahu Electoral Destiny

Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)— Keeping the Israeli public in the dark in relation to losses and casualties of the Israeli army in the last Israeli offensive on Gaza, chairman of Israeli Likud party Benjamin Netanyahu is almost...

Israeli speaker highlights fear in border city Sderot

If you were given 15 seconds to seek shelter from an approaching rocket, what would you do? For Israelis living in Sderot, a city near the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip, this question is not a hypothetical...