The Latest - Israel
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Christians for Palestine
For most American Jews and Israelis, evangelical Christians are synonymous with zealous, biblically inspired support of the Jewish state—so zealous, in fact, that it makes some Jews uneasy. more...
Günter Grass: Always on the Wrong Side
Eighty-four-year-old Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass penned a poem entitled “What must be said” for Munich’s liberal daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, accusing Israel of planning a first strike on Iran to “extinguish the Iranian people.” more...
German Noble Laureate Günter Grass Loves Iran’s Clerical Regime
While Germany’s media are reporting non-stop on the country’s most famous contemporary writer—the 1999 Nobel Laureate in Literature Günter Grass—because of his “poetic” attacks on Israel’s right to defend itself... more...
The Fallacy of the ‘Pinkwashing’ Argument
On March 16, a group of gay Israeli teenagers was set to meet with the Seattle LGBT Commission, a body representing the interests of the gay community before the city government. more...
Beating the Tin Drum Against Israel
One of Germany’s most famous novelists penned a pro-Iranian regime and anti-Israel poem Wednesday in German and Italian daily newspapers, declaring the Jewish state the greatest threat to global security and denying the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program. more...
Something Rotten in Germany
On Wednesday, Germany’s most famous novelist penned a poem threat to global security. The 84-year-old atomic power Israel is endangering the already fragile world peace.” His poem, entitled “What must be said,” ran in the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Italy’s La Repubblica. more...
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