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Conflicting Definitions of ‘Pro-Israel’ on Either Side of the Atlantic
During a recent trip to Washington, I was introduced to an Israeli diplomat as the JPost's European Correspondent. The diplomat issued a tart reply laced with biting sarcasm: "My condolences." more...
Palestinian Refugees and the UN
There are many reasons to detest the United Nations. It treats proponents of genocide as legitimate world leaders. It is among the most anti-Semitic institutions on the planet. more...
Peter Beinart’s Crisis of Oversimplifying American Jews
Peter Beinart wants to be able to be proud of Israel. The fact that he can’t is in large part due to the efforts of an American Jewish leadership long out of touch with the people they presume to represent. He really ought to know better. more...
Criticizing Netanyahu, Barak on Iran is a Luxury Israel Can’t Afford
While the Israeli political scene is no stranger to strident criticisms directed at senior government officials and their policies, the recent attacks on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak... more...
Will the Young Eat the Revolution?
Revolutions, it is often said, eat their young; the Palestinian revolutionary movement, in all its splinters, certainly has swallowed generations of Palestinian children. more...
The Real Palestinian Refugee Problem
After World War II, the British left India which was to be partitioned into two independent nations. One would have a Hindu majority, the other a Muslim majority. more...
Israel’s Unity Deal and Lebanon
The surprise unity deal struck between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kadima chairman Shaul Mofaz has spurred a flurry of speculation, including in the Arab media, about its ultimate significance. more...
Of Masterstrokes and Apoplectic Strokes
Netanyahu has strengthened his hand significantly but not for the reasons spouted by the left more...
The New Palestinian Strategy
One word went unspoken in an interview President Barack Obama gave to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in late February. In their 45-minute discussion, devoted exclusively to the subject of Israel, the president did not utter the word Palestinian. more...
Beinart’s Argument Was Already Debunked
As a further thought to Michael Rubin’s response to Joe Klein’s defense of Peter Beinart, it is not true that nobody has yet replied to Peter Beinart’s demographic argument. First of all, the argument is not Peter Beinart’s. more...
The Israel Lobby’s GOP Past
Jewish voters are a reliable Democratic bloc. But the Republican Party established the first platform on Israel—and brought the Democrats along. more...
Lou Dobbs Tonight
FDD's Jonathan Schanzer and Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, on President Obama's visit to Afghanistan and other threats in the region. more...
A New United Church Report Shows How Israel-Haters Have Lost the Argument
According to a new report from the United Church of Canada, “the deepest meaning of the Holocaust was the denial of human dignity to Jews.” Oh, really? Actually, I’d say that the “deepest meaning of the Holocaust” was the slaughter of six-million human beings. more...
Abbas’s Police State
The Palestinian Authority is taking aggressive new measures to squelch dissent -- and the White House is missing in action. more...
Triple Play! Obama Blows Off Congress, Funds Palestinians, Lies About PA Stance on Israel
Friday night news dump: President Obama has decided to provide $192 million to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress’s freeze on PA funding after its president, Mahmoud Abbas... more...
Law Games
Progressive activists are corrupting the laws of war and putting free nations at increased risk. more...
Backlash Builds Over ‘60 Minutes’ Hatchet Job on Israel
And Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies had this to say: “It’s truly mystifying: Is this the result of ignorance or bias or some cocktail of the two? more...
Israel Can’t Afford the Happy Talk
Reuel Marc Gerecht posits that real success is almost certainly unattainable and would require that Iran “(1) Stop all uranium enrichment to 20 percent purity, which is near bomb-grade; (2) ship abroad the entire stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium... more...
Banging the Tin Drum for Iran and Against Israel
Germany’s most famous living writer has unleashed an international debate by branding Israel the greatest threat to world peace. Günter Grass, author of the 1959 novel "The Tin Drum" and winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in literature, made the claim in an early April poem. more...
Marzook: No Recognition, No Permanent Peace
Marzook also stood firm on a number of Hamas' other perpetual and preposterous non-negotiable pre-conditions, including the fact that any future agreement would have to "include the unqualified right of Palestinians to return to land in what is now Israel." more...
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