Is Israeli society unraveling?
On balance, Israeli society is extremely healthy. Unemployment is at record lows. At a time of global recession, the Israeli...
Project on Global anti-Semitism and the US-Israel Relationship
Netanyahu’s misleading lessons in governance
Many of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's supporters were stunned last week when IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz...
Tom Friedman’s losing battle
For decades New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman balanced his substantively anti-Israel positions with repeated protestations of love for Israel....
Gingrich’s fresh hope
Last Friday, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, did something revolutionary. He...
Democracy strikes back
Last Thursday, in an address before the Association for Public Law's annual conference at the Dead Sea, Supreme Court President...
The scourge of clientitis
For many years, observers of the US State Department on both sides of the American political spectrum have agreed that...
With friends like these
The slurs against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu voiced by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and US President Barack Obama after last...
Delegitimizing the delegitimizers
You have to hand it to the Palestinians. They decided to abandon the peace process and seek international recognition of...
Whither the IDF?
It was a normal Shabbat afternoon in Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood. Children were outside visiting with their friends and playing in...
Marketing Gilad Schalit
Gilad Schalit is home. And that is wonderful. The terrorists Israel released in exchange for the IDF soldier held hostage...
Iran’s war to win
The Obama administration's response to Iran's plan to bring its 32-year-old war against the United States to the US capital...
Turkey’s house of cards
To the naked eye, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be moving from strength to strength. Erdogan was welcomed...
Israel as a wedge issue
Last month at the UN President Barack Obama did something he had never done before. He discussed Israel and the...
A prayer for 5772
Upon his return to Ramallah from New York, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was greeted by a crowd of several...
Israel’s path to victory
There is something surreal about the coverage of developments this week at the UN. The general tenor is akin to...
Israel at the UN: A suckers game
This week’s Palestinian-statehood extravaganza at the U.N. is being billed as something of a modern-day showdown at the O.K. Corral....