Middle East

There is something hypnotic about the 15th century painting by Hieronymus Bosch, The Ship of Fools. The painting being very small, I used to use a magnifying glass to identify all of the secrets packed...

Lenny Ben-David worked for AIPAC until 1997. He later served as a diplomat
in Israel's embassy in Washington. Today, he is a public affairs consultant and blogs at www.lennybendavid.com.

Large spraypainted Swastika, facing Jewish neighbors at 796 Campbrell Street. Photo by Rhonda Spivak. The Singers house at 796 Campbell (white bungalow) faces the swastika and the word MOVE spraypainted on the side of 792 Campbell...

As the international community rushes to condemn Israel for the violence on board one of the ships in the Gaza flotilla, which left a reported 10 people dead and dozens injured, it is now...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/jun/10/us-taxpayer-money-funding-terror-education-west-ba/print/ Published on June 10, 2010 Hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are sunk annually into the coffers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), an...

August 4, 2010 http://www.gloria-center.org/blog/2010/08/todays-media-bias-against-israel Along Israel's border with Lebanon, east of Metulla, some bushes were pushing in on the border fence. The fence is set in slightly from the border precisely so that Israeli soldiers can...

Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C., area. Mona Charen received her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, Columbia University, with honors.... read more Mona Charen also holds a...

My extended family returned recently from a trip to Israel and Egypt to celebrate our younger son's Bar Mitzvah. We are grateful and blessed that our dream trip was realized. We marked Noah’s becoming...

Palestinian armed forces have fired 19 rockets, missiles and mortars from Gaza into Sderot and surrounding farming communities in Israel's Western Negev region since September 4th.. Residents of Sderot and the Western Negev...

This week, Palestinian Authority leaders Machmud Abbas and Salam Fayyad arrive in Washington. According to reports that have appeared in both the Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post newspapers, the purpose of their trip is...