Secrecy Surrounds Senator Specter’s Visit to Damascus
The interview that follows was conducted with Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA.) when he visited Israel, en route to Damascus.
Despite Senator Specter's willingness to engage in an open and frank discussion before his visit to...
Incisive Commentary
Posting: January 8, 2009
"Diplomatic Confusion"
Major Ro'i Rozner, of the Kfir Brigade, has been killed by mortar fire in a fierce battle in the region of the former Jewish community of Neztarim. We salute him.
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First Gaza, Then The World
Some of Israel's most blatant critics have written that for every Israeli killed, about a hundred Palestinians were killed. A half-truth is worse than a lie, but this is not even a half truth....
Rocket Fire, Hostilities Continue In Gaza
Smoke caused by explosions from Israeli forces’ operations rises from buildings on the outskirts of Gaza City yesterday. (Hatem Moussa/Associated Press)
Yesterday, no schools in communities and towns at a distance of 30 miles Gaza...
The Role of Fatah
Frontpage Interview's guest today is Jonathan Schanzer, director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center.
He has served as a counterterrorism analyst at the U.S. Department of Treasury and as a research fellow at Washington...
Insight in the News in Israel
Posting: November 26, 2008
"So, Nu?"
Last night at an Anglo Likud Forum at which some of the candidates for the Likud list spoke, I heard constitutional lawyer Yosi Fuchs -- founder of Forum for the...
Hezbollah Triples Its Strength
Ehud Barak, Israel's defense minister, expressed alarm Tuesday at Hezbollah's apparent growth as a threat to the Jewish state.
"Hezbollah's strength at present is triple its strength at the end of the Second Lebanon War,"...
Insight in the News in Israel
Posting: November 20, 2008
"Lunacy"
It seems fairly pervasive. And I'll provide just two examples here, both touching on issues I've raised in the last day or two:
In response to increased launching of rockets from Gaza,...
PLO Promotes League Of Arab Nations Initiative To Israeli Public
On Thursday, November 20,the PLO Negotiation Department took the unusual move of sponsoring an advertisement from the League of Arab Nations in the major Israeli media.
The ad proclaimed that "57 Arab and Islamic states...
Obama Distances Himself From Malley
The Obama transition team is working to distance itself from a controversial negotiator who has been negotiating with Israel's enemies.
Robert Malley, Middle East director of the International Crisis Group, a think tank that has...