The Grasping Hand
[This article is reprinted from City Journal] To assess the unprecedented scale that the modern democratic state has attained in Europe, it is useful to recall the historical kinship between two...
View ArticleCaroline Glick: The NIF and the next war – Jerusalem Post
A regional war may well be approaching. The actions and statements of Iran and its Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian proxies over the past week or so indicate that this is what Israel’s enemies are...
View ArticleWar By Other Means
When Irish Colonel Desmond Travers eagerly accepted an appointment to the Goldstone Commission, he was hell-bent on revenge against Israel based on paranoid fantasies and hard left anti-Israel...
View ArticleHolding Spendthrifts Responsible
“Greece on Friday unleashed a fierce attack on its European Union partners,” reported the Financial Times. The outburst was occasioned by the country’s rapidly deteriorating fiscal situation. In a...
View ArticleIraq Election: A Defeat for Iran
On March 7, 62% of Iraqis turned out to vote in their national elections. They did so despite an increase in violence, sectarian tension, and concern about fraud. The preliminary results show that...
View ArticleTurkey’s PM to Armenians: Get Out!
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan showed the European Union recently why his country’s membership application should be rejected. In an interview with the BBC last week, Erdogan expressed...
View ArticleObama Welcomes A Stealth Jihadist
Five years after being barred from the U.S. for making charitable contributions to a group that sent those contributions to the jihad terror group Hamas, internationally renowned Islamic scholar Tariq...
View ArticleWhen Israel Stood Up to Washington
As U.S.-Israel tensions climb to unfamiliar heights, they recall a prior round of tensions nearly thirty years ago, when Menachem Begin and Ronald Reagan were in charge. In contrast to Binyamin...
View ArticleWill the Palestinians Just Declare a State?
In the aftermath of last month’s diplomatic ruckus—Israeli bureaucrats referred, with Vice-President Biden in town, to building apartments for Jews in East Jerusalem; the Obama administration took...
View ArticleIs Kim Jong-Il Fearful of an Uprising?
Visit Pajamas A South Korean naval ship sank on March 26 after an explosion ripped the vessel into two. Suspicion of the source of the explosion immediately focused on North Korea, although South...
View ArticleObama, Israel and the Genesis Prediction
Most observers, right or left, pro-Israel or anti-Israel, would agree that Israeli-American relations are the worst they have been in memory. Among the many indications is that only 9 percent of...
View ArticleFake “Peace” for Israel
The Israeli-Palestinian “proximity talks” were ostensibly launched this week. U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell is expected to shuttle between Jerusalem and Ramallah, seeking to find a path to...
View ArticleIsrael’s Welfare Threat
Dan Ben-David, an economics professor at Tel Aviv University and executive director of the Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Jerusalem, has been stoking fears lately in Israel with a 350-page...
View ArticleNetanyahu to International Community: Stop the Hypocrisy
The IDF has released two more videos from the incident Monday morning on the Mavi Marmara, the largest in the Turkish-organized six-ship flotilla that challenged Israel’s blockade of Gaza, and the...
View ArticleWill the West Back the Jihad or Israel?
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu told his cabinet this week that “the world is beginning to become aware” of what really happened in the “flotilla incident” in which nine of the “activists”...
View ArticleAwakening to Obama’s “Hosni” Hell
This article is reprinted from the New York Post. First, the bad news. If you’re keeping score at home, another day passed with more slaughter of demonstrators in the streets of Syria without serious...
View ArticleThe Terrorists’ Best Weapon: Intelligence Failures – by Ryan Mauro
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received help from Al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch in carrying out his attack, but he was also inadvertently helped by, in President Obama’s words, the “human and systemic failure”...
View ArticleCriminality as a Career Path – by Rita Karlsen
What is Norway up to? The question can be put directly to the country’s Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, because in his New Year’s speech he placed particular emphasis on the fact that it will be...
View ArticleDrugging the West
On January 9, Hugo Chavez announced that two Venezuelan F-16s had been dispatched to intercept a U.S. P3 maritime patrol aircraft in his country’s airspace, presenting it as another example of...
View ArticleAt Last, Some Decent Israeli Films
The Israeli film industry as a whole leaves little to the imagination and much to disappoint. It is dominated by political ideologues of a distinctly leftist slant who tend to see their country...
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