Barack Obama, Jewish-Americans And Israel

From a personal and professional perspective, this is the sixth American Presidential campaign that I have covered from Israel, concentrating on the "Israel aspect" of the story. This time I not only have covered the...

Nuclear arms expert says it would be foolish for canada to sell Jordan nuclear...

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1529&sec=1&title= NUCLEAR_ARMS_EXPERT_SAYS_IT_WOULD_BE_FOOLISH_FOR_CANADA_ TO_SELL_JORDAN_NUCLEAR_REACTOR:_CANADA_ON_SHORT_LIST_TO_SELL Arms control expert Gerald Steinberg has taken issue with the presence of Canada on a recent short list to help Jordan construct a nuclear reactor to generate energy for civilian purposes. Canada is one of...

Egypt: Iraq May Attack Israel, “All Hell Would Break Loose”

The following are excerpts from an article which appeared in the Egyptian English weekly, Al-Ahram of Al-Ahram Weekly 5th - 11th February, 1998 Front page headline: "WAR?" by Dina Ezzat, Galal Nassar and Nevine Khalil Cairo worked...

Incisive Insight in the News

Posting: October 29, 2008 "Does This Matter?" To me it matters a lot: It's being reported that French president Nicholas Sarkozy thinks Obama's position on Iran is "utterly immature" and comprised of "formulations empty of all content." Sarkozy...

Commentary: Fighting Defeatism, in the USA and in Israel

Last night a reader asked me for a repeat of the reasons why I think the US should stay in Iraq. I gave him not just a repeat, but an expansion of my original...

An Ugly Distortion of Justice

It is 1985. You are a young American Jew of the post-Holocaust generation, employed in the US Naval Intelligence. Your loyalty to your country of birth has never been in question. But you are...

Obama’s Shortcomings in Syria

For months now, the United States has been providing direct so-called humanitarian assistance to the Syrian rebels-while cautioning Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other Arab states to limit the types of weaponry they provide. Rifles...

The new nexus of narcoterrorism: Hezbollah and Venezuela

http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201112.neumann.narcoterrorism.html Press stories, as well as a television documentary, over the past two months have detailed the growing cooperation between South American drug traffickers and Middle Eastern terrorists, proving that the United States continues to...

Islamism’s Likely Doom

http://www.danielpipes.org/13124/islamism-doom As recently as 2012, it appeared that Islamists could overcome their many internal dissimilarities - sectarian (Sunni, Shi'ite), political (monarchical, republican), tactical (political, violent), or attitudes toward modernity (Salafi, Muslim Brotherhood) - and cooperate....

Immoderate Fatah: A responsible Palestinian representative would be helpful, but there just isn’t one.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is currently in the Middle East. As has been the case in the past, one of her goals is to "strengthen" the "moderate" Mahmoud Abbas. Her desire to do...