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...
Middle East
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...
Washington’s Israeli allies
As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu heads to Washington for another stillborn round of talks with Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas hosted...
Accepting the unacceptable
Last weekend the mullahs took a big step towards becoming a nuclear power as they powered the Bushehr nuclear reactor. ...
Israel fights the demagogues
Israeli academia is in an uproar. And this is a good thing. Last week, the Zionist student movement Im Tirtzu...
Dusk in Iraq
A troubling milestone arrived on Thursday when the US withdrew its final combat brigade from Iraq. The remaining 50,000 US...
Standing on a landmine
US President Barack Obama's warm endorsement of the plan to build a mosque by the ruins of the World Trade...