Happy Israel

http://www.danielpipes.org/12962/happy-Israel In a typically maladroit statement, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry recently complained that Israelis are too contented to end their conflict with the Palestinians: "People in Israel aren't waking up every day...

J Street’s Spin Reversed by CAMERA Op-Ed

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=2474 The Washington Jewish Week featured J Street, the self-described “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby in page one articles twice in April, published J Street opinion columns once that month and again in the May 16 edition,...

The coming Hamas whitewash

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=4545 On May 16, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to travel to Hamas-ruled Gaza in June. Standing next to U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House, Erdogan expressed hope "that my visit can...

Make Room for Islamistgate: The Obama Administration’s Newest, (Biggest?) Scandal

http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2013/06/04/make-room-for-islamistgate-the-obama-administrations-new-scandal/ Currently the Obama administration is facing three big scandals - the IRS targeting, the bugging of AP and Fox, and Benghazi. Now we have scandal Number Four, just as large in scope. For the last...

When Sunni and Shiite Extremists Make War

http://www.danielpipes.org/12961/syria-sunni-shiite-extremists In his article "The Muslim Civil War," Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal disagrees with my argument about Syria. He characterizes the position I hold this way: If al Qaeda fighters want to murder...

Abbas: Palestinians Will Never Give Up on Jerusalem

http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=22561 RAMALLAH, June 5, 2013 (WAFA) - President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that the Palestinian people will never give up their right to Jerusalem as the capital of their state in spite of all the...

Israel Sees PA Committed To Uprising

Israel's intelligence community has determined that the Palestinian Authority was committed to another revolt in the West Bank. The open-source arm of the intelligence community asserted that the PA decided to wage what was termed...

Blowing On Shimon Peres’s Candles

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/06/04/blowing-on-shimon-peress-candles/ Normally, I would not raise a big stink about Shimon Peres’s 90th birthday bash. When it comes to birthdays, I salute that great Western Jewish tradition that loves to celebrate at least twice a year...

‘Apartheid’ Amusement Park?

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/apartheid-amusement-park/ The Left and its satellites in the media found a horrid case of “Israeli apartheid” in recent days. It is in “Superland.” Superland is Israel’s closest thing to Knott’s Berry Farm or similar amusement parks...

Samantha Power, Obama’s pick as America’s Ambassador to the UN, will fit right in

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/samantha_power_obamas_pick_as_americas_ ambassador_to_the_un_will_fit_right_in.html Samantha Power has been a notorious critic of Israel for years and that, naturally, makes her well-qualified under President Obama's criteria to serve in such a crucial post. She will be welcomed with open...