The Fatah fairy tale
Fahmi Shabaneh is an odd candidate for dissident status. Shabaneh is a Jerusalemite who joined the Palestinian Authority's General Intelligence...
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Sarah Palin’s friendship
US President Barack Obama is an inept, incompetent leader. More than his failure to pass his domestic agenda on health...
Keeping Zionism’s promise
"Never again!" So declared Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as he spoke at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday, the 65th anniversary of its...
The perils of presidential failure
US President Barack Obama is feeling the heat. His response to the current crisis threatening to sink his one-year-old presidency...
Code Red on Code Pink
Oh the shame of it all. Last month, 1,300 pro-Palestinian activists from the US and Europe came to the region...
Israel’s opening to China
The growing power of the UN-based international community is one of the gravest emerging threats to Israel's national security. This...
A low and dishonest decade
Upon returning from Cairo on Tuesday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu proclaimed, "It's time to move the peace process forward." The...
Fighting the new blood libel
How do Israeli Jews deal with the shocking return of the European blood libel? So far the most effective response...
Reconsidering the Suez Campaign
It is hard to seize the initiative. The consequences of acting are frightening. It is always better to let others go first....
Narcissists and madmen
Perhaps when the history of our times is written, ours will be called The Era of Narcissistic Catechisms. To understand...
Lebanon’s legacy in Afghanistan
The day after US President Barack Obama announced that he was deploying additional US forces to Afghanistan, an event occurred...
Whither American Jewry?
During a recent speaking tour in Canada, MK Nahman Shai (Kadima) shocked some of his hosts when he said that...
The mullahs’ big week
At first glance, this past week seems like a week that Iran's mullahs would very much like to forget. Early...
Silencing dissent in America
Former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold should probably buy himself a flak jacket. Gold is scheduled to debate Richard...
Waging diplomatic war
If, to paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz, diplomacy is war by other means, then just as armies are called upon to...
How Turkey was lost
Once the apotheosis of a pro-Western, dependable Muslim democracy, this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and became a...