We are not for sale
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is playing with fire. And Israel is getting burned. Over the past week, it has been...
Middle East
Saudi Friends and Foes
It seems that, thanks to Saudi Arabia, the latest effort to kill Americans with sophisticated bombs failed. Thanks to Saudi...
The Age of Dissimulation
Years from now, when historians seek an overarching concept to define our times, they could do worse than refer to...
The Scott Brown Precedent and Israel
On Tuesday, US voters are set to repudiate US President Barack Obama's agenda for their country. Unfortunately, based on his...
Obama’s not-so-hidden agenda
Earlier this year, President Obama drove U.S.-Israeli relations - to use one of President Obama's oft-employed analogies - into a...
Obama and the US-Israel alliance
Israel's opposition leaders spent the past week trying to prove their relevance. On Tuesday, both former prime minister Ehud Olmert...
Rise of the suicide protests
David Be'eri is either much admired or much hated, depending on how you feel about Israel and Jewish heritage. Be'eri...
Ahmadinejad’s target audience
By Iranian and Hizbullah accounts, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon next week will be a splendid affair. The...
Do Jews have civil rights?
A striking aspect of the so-called building freeze in Judea and Samaria that expired last week is that an enormous...
The strategic lessons of Stuxnet
There's a new cyber-weapon on the block. And it's a doozy. Stuxnet, a malicious software, or malware, program was apparently...
What the Israeli Left is really after
Following the example of its counterparts in the West, for decades the Israeli Left has carefully cultivated its image as...
Who lost Turkey?
You have to hand it to Turkey's Islamist leaders. They sure know how to get their way. In the seven...
The perils of diplomatic theater
The current flurry of diplomatic activity is deeply disturbing. It isn't simply that the Obama administration has strong-armed Prime Minister...
Saad Hariri’s cautionary tale
Lebanon is a sad and desperate place. And its disastrous fate is personified today by its prime minister. All who...
A prayer for 5771
On August 28, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck confounded his colleagues in the media when he brought hundreds of thousands...
The new Netanyahu?
Despite a multi-million dollar media blitz, Israelis are not buying the US-financed Geneva Initiative's attempt to convince us that we...