The Jihad and Christopher Stephens, Pt. 1
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2277/The-Jihad-and-Christopher-Stephens-Pt-1.aspx
Christopher Stephens in Tripoli, June 2012
In analyzing the Benghazi scandal, it is crucial to highlight not only the dangers of relying on jihadist armed gangs for American security in Benghazi, but also the betrayal...
Obama’s Greatest Foreign Policy Error
http://sultanknish.blogspot.co.il/2012/10/obamas-greatest-foreign-policy-error.html
Obama's greatest Foreign Policy error was the same one that had been made by Bush and by numerous past administrations. The error was that the problem was not Islam, but Islamic violence. It was...
Telling Israel like it is – in Arabic
I first met Boshra Khalaila in the Spring of 2010, at the Ministry of Public Diplomacy’s offices in Jerusalem. She was 24 at the time. Like me, she’d been alarmed by the public relations...
Brothers in Arms: Would Hizballah and Hamas Join Iran in a War Against Israel?
http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/docs/perspectives185.pdf
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: There is a prevalent view that in the event of an Israeli strike on Iran, Tehran’s proxies in Lebanon and Gaza - Hizballah and Hamas - would join in retaliation against Israel....
WJC ANALYSIS – The long-suffering Palestinian electoral process
http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/12527/wjc_analysis_the_long_suffering_palestinian_electoral_process
Over the past weekend, the Palestinian Authority held a round of local elections. It appeared to be an ordinary and routine local authority matter. However, it was anything but that.
This election round was meant...
Looking back: New York Times’s Roger Cohen out to lunch at J Street Conference...
http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2949&sec=2&title=LOOKING_BACK:_NEW_YORK_TIMES%27S_ROGER_COHEN_OUT_TO_LUNCH_AT_J_STREET_CONFERENCE_2011
It's been about a year and a half since I heard New York Times columnist Roger Cohen speak at the J Street convention in Washington at the end of February 2011.
At the time his...
Abbas is right – Education can incite
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1841/abbas_is_right_education_can_incite
Mahmoud Abbas's recent speech in the UN included a reference to the inciting Israeli books that encouraged the latest surge of violence committed by Jewish settlers aimed at hurting Palestinian citizens.
This violence "is the...
The Powerlessness Excuse: Debunking the Claim that Obama Could Not Have Affected the “Arab...
http://www.gloria-center.org/2012/10/the-powerlessness-excuse-debunking-the-claim-that-obama-could-not-have-affected-the-“arab-spring”-and-islamist-takeovers/
One argument we will be increasingly hearing is that President Barack Obama couldn’t have done anything to change events in the Middle East. This is ironic of course because when things were going well...
Concerning Gershon Baskin’s gestures to Abbas if he becomes
In his article, “Encountering Peace: The challenge of statesmanship” http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=287949 one wonders why Gershon Baskin in his prime ministership will not ask Abbas to cease and desist from the consistent virulent message that Abbas...
Losing my Seventh Grade Teacher: Stan Diamond (z’l)
http://blog.pjvoice.com/diary/2574/
This past Shabbat, when our family held its perennial discussion about our apprehensions about Iran, and the possibility of a nuclear threat, I told my cantankerous seventh grader, Ruchama about what it was like...