Paying the ultimate price, again
By YOSSI TZUR, ISRAEL HAYOM— Today (Monday) we bereaved families will once again hold a “ceremony” at the Supreme Court. Every few years, under one pretext or another, the government decides to release...
View ArticleIsrael approves 900 additional homes in East Jerusalem
By ADIV STERMAN, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Two days before the scheduled resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians, a diplomatic source said Monday that Israel secretly authorized construction of 900 new...
View ArticleReleasing Terrorists Will Not Bring Peace but Will Ignite an Inferno of...
By EARL COX, JPOST – If history is correct; if the words of Prime Minister Netanyahu put forth in his writings are valid; if Mahmood Abbas’s background and actions portray his intentions; then...
View ArticleWill the architects of Oslo finally repent?
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Twenty years ago this week, Israel committed one of the greatest strategic blunders in its modern history, one that is still casting a long and painful shadow over the entire...
View ArticleIsrael’s twenty year nightmare
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Twenty years ago today, Israel’s so-called peace process with the PLO was officially ushered in at the White House Rose Garden. A year or so later, when the death toll of...
View ArticleObama would rather negotiate fecklessly than contend responsibly
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST– Did US President Barack Obama score a great victory for the United States by concluding a deal with Russia on Syria’s chemical weapons or has he caused irreparable harm to the...
View ArticleOne way in, no way out
By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— President Obama would do well if he put aside his plan for peace in the Middle East and instead listened to the advice of people in the know. His way of peace will lead to,...
View ArticleHow Palestinian hate prevents peace
By YUVAL STEINITZ, NY TIMES— On Sept. 26, the Palestinian Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, told the United Nations General Assembly that the Palestinians “keep reaching out to the Israelis saying:...
View ArticleThe Arab Israeli peace process is over. Enter the era of chaos
By LEE SMITH, TABLET— This past weekend the White House clarified yet again what’s been apparent to everyone in the Middle East for quite a while now: The United States wants out, for real. “There’s a...
View ArticleLowering the Iron Curtain on the Middle East
By RON JAGER— “We’re eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked,” Secretary of State Dean Rusk famously said during the Cuban missile crisis. In global strategic diplomacy, rule...
View ArticleBehind the scenes of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
By ELIOR LEVY, YNET— US Secretary of State John Kerry is arriving in Israel on Tuesday as tensions surrounding peace talks reach boiling point. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently told Fatah...
View ArticleKerry: US considers Israeli settlements to be ‘illegitimate’
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, JPOST— US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel on Wednesday to limit settlement building, an issue that is weighing on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Friction over the...
View ArticleIsraeli protesters condemn Kerry’s remarks over 3rd intifada at US Consulate
By DANIEL K. EISENBUD, JPOST— Dozens of protesters gathered to condemn US Secretary of State John Kerry Sunday at Jerusalem’s US Consulate for remarks he made Thursday about the prospect of a third...
View ArticleAbbas: Regardless of what happens, peace talks to continue
By AFP— Peace talks with Israel will continue for the full nine months as agreed with Washington “regardless of what happens on the ground”, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told AFP on Sunday. In...
View Article‘Israelis don’t believe in two-state solution’
By MARK LANGFAN, ARUTZ 7— Middle East expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar, of Bar-Ilan University’s BESA Center (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies), dismissed calls for the establishment of a Palestinian...
View Article‘Giving all in return for war’
By AVITAL LAHAV, YNET— “We must make every effort in order to reach an agreement since the current state jeopardizes the future of the State of Israel.” Against the backdrop of increasing tensions...
View ArticleWhy Isn’t Kerry Listening to What the Radicals Are Saying?
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pursues his efforts to reach a peace agreement between the Palestinian Authority [PA] leadership and Israel, Hamas reaffirmed that...
View ArticleAnnex the Land Before the “End of Jewish History”
By GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7— The fate of Jewish life in Judea and Samaria is the most important single defining issue for the future of the Jewish people. After Yasser Arafat convinced the Israelis that...
View ArticleJohn Kerry’s frequent failure program
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Torrential rains and heavy snow were not the only forms of precipitation to strike the Jewish state last week, leaving the country gripped with fear and trepidation. Adding...
View ArticleKerry forces Israel’s moment of decision
bY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— There was a ghoulish creepiness to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Israel last week. Here we were, beset by the greatest winter storm in a hundred years. All roads...
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