Amb Prosor addresses UNGA debate on “The Question of Palestine”

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Foreign+Relations/Israel+and+the+UN/Speeches+ -+statements/Amb_Prosor_addresses_UNGA_29-Nov-2011.htm Mr. President, A great Jewish sage once wrote, "The truth can hurt like a thorn, at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose." His words came to my mind today. His insight could...

Palestinians Blackmail Washington over True Refugee Numbers

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/06/05/Palestinians-Blackmail-Washington The Palestinians are blackmailing Washington, claiming that a new amendment to a bill before Congress would prevent them from making a peace deal with Israel. The amendment calls for a true accounting of how...

USAID Vets-Hiring Review, Support for Israel, Top Kirk Priorities Included in State-Foreign Ops

http://politicalnews.me/?id=14517&keys=USAID-APPROPRIATIONS-FOREIGN-ASSISTANCE WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator will be required to review the agency's veterans-hiring practices under a bill passed by the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee. The Senate’s fiscal year (FY)...

Obama’s Exclusion of Israel at Counter-terror Conference Raises Concern

http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/07/15/top-security-experts-concerned-over-obama-freezing-israel-out-of-counter-terror-conferences/ Top security experts in Israel are worried about the Obama Administration’s attitude to radical Muslim governments in the region and by Obama’s willingness to freeze Israel out of two recent high-level counter-terror conferences. Israel...

How the U.S. Government Should Deal With the Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital Issue

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/08/03/how-the-u-s-government-should-deal-with-the-jerusalem-as-israels-capital-issue/?singlepage=true Recently there has been a controversy when State Department spokespeople refused to say what they thought to be Israel’s capital. To understand this issue we need to understand that there are two different issues...

Observation: Countdown to disaster with Egypt? Is this already the eleventh hour?

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=57907 Date: 17 August 2012 Israel Radio Arab Affairs analyst Eran Zinger reported during the noon news magazine program that in recent day Egypt has deployed anti-aircraft missiles near Israel's border in Egyptian Sinai without permission...

It’s Not Just the Temple Mount; They Even Claim Susya

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12085#.UDeYE8GTvSs In land disputes with Israel, Arabs often claim their "historic rights" to almost every part of Israel, often repeating the mantra that their grandfathers had lived on a given tract of land "for centuries" In...

No, It’s Sharia and the Assault on U.S. Missions

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/316633/no-its-ishariai-and-assault-us-missions-andrew-c-mccarthy # I could not more vigorously disagree with my friend Daniel Pipes, who disappointingly lays fault for yesterday’s carnage at the feet of Reverend Terry Jones. In essence, Daniel - like much of the...

Weekly Commentary: Did Sadat do Israel favor opting for war rather than Kissinger plan?

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=58490 Did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat do Israel a favor when in May 1973 he rejected an initiative by Henry Kissinger that could have restored Egyptian sovereignty to all of Sinai and instead opted to...

Election Letter to my American Friends

Sherwin@atid-edi.com Sherwin Pomerantz, a 29 year resident of Israel. is President of Atid-EDI Ltd., a Jerusalem-based economic development consulting firm and a former National President of the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel My fellow...