America and the Arab Spring
A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's feet....
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Mainstreaming anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism may not yet be a litmus test for social acceptability in the US, but it has certainly become acceptable....
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...
Gingrich’s fresh hope
Last Friday, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, did something revolutionary. He...
Adel Guindy: Islamism & the Facade of Egyptian Democracy
Adel Guindy testified before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the House of Representatives. Reps. Frank Wolf and James...
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...
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...
The forgotten Christians of the East
On Sunday night, Egyptian Copts staged what was supposed to be a peaceful vigil at Egypt's state television headquarters in...
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...
The war America fights
Ten years ago, in the shadow of the crater at Ground Zero, the smoldering Pentagon and a field of honor...
American Jews and the Liberal Art of Demonization
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 US election season is clearly upon us as US President Barack...
Ankara’s chosen scapegoat
Monday morning Turkey took its anti-Israel campaign to a new level. Beyond downgrading diplomatic relations with Israel; beyond suspending military...