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Stationing foreign peacekeeping troops on Israel's border would cripple Israel's defense capabilities, requiring Israel to seek approval in preempting/countering belligerence, straining US-Israel ties
By Noah Beck
Adding cries 'to save Jerusalem' to Arab incitement against Israelis will only make the Palestinian violence even more explosive.
Besides our Orthodox Jewish community, there is another community that faces exactly the same issues: The thriving and varied American Muslim community.
By David Bedein
The question remains as to whether the US will ever recognize Jerusalem as part of Israel. Such a policy decision is more crucial than the symbolic matter of moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.
By J. E. Dyer
"People are not quitting and running away in disgust. This is the White House cleaning house.”
Polls overwhelmingly and consistently demonstrate that Israeli Arabs are determined to remain Israeli citizens, rather than become subjects of the Palestinian Authority.
US military aid to Israel is a win-win situation: Israel gets help in buying the arms it needs to defend itself and America gets an ally that doesn’t need or want its military protection.
The 10 Commandments have been integral to the legal, cultural, religious and political fabric of the American people highlighting the 400-year Judeo-Christian foundation of the US-Israel covenant
Contrary to the State Department worldview, Arab policy-makers never considered the Palestinian issue a top priority, nor a core-cause of regional turbulence, nor the axis of the Arab-Israeli conflict
Israel, a well-established military and intelligence powerhouse is increasingly integrated into the global economy, emerging as an economic and technological powerhouse
So, let the president appoint his son-in-law, without pay, to this important position as senior adviser, and let’s all hope, for the benefit of the country, that it is a wise decision.
By Nevet Basker
The US allowing UN Security Council Resolution 2334 to pass really was unprecedented. It reverses almost 50 years of American foreign policy regarding Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
This is the list of the worst anti-Semitic incidents the Jewish world has encountered in 2016, with figures showing a concerning trend.
By Hillel Neuer
Fortunately, UN Watch has been a vigilant force fighting UN bias. Here is a sampling of 20 UN Watch efforts to make the UN better. Imagine how "UN-fair" it would be without the work of UN Watch?
It just so happens, this year saw significant archaeological finds establishing the historical Jewish connection between Israel and Jerusalem, contradicting campaigns to delegitimize Jewish history.
By David Bedein
The highest policy official overseeing PA and UNRWA matters looked me straight in the eye and said PA school books used by UNRWA advance peace and reconciliation. Clearly, he never read the books.
This is a moment when those who have been in denial about the harm the president has done to the U.S.-Israel alliance should admit their mistake.
The Syrian Opposition extends a message of peace to the Syrian-Jewish community: “Syrian Jews were always like every other Syrian and post-Assad, the Jewish community can return to its glorious days.”
By Bassam Tawil
The more time you spend in an Israeli prison, the more prestigious the job you will receive. Graduating from an Israeli prison is better than graduating from an Ivy League university.
By max boot
Responsibility for the Aleppo war crimes lies with 3 men: Bashar Assad, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, Vladimir Putin. It is their forces that are targeting civilians and committing crimes against humanity
By Gregg Roman
In Secretary Kerry's drive to wrest Israeli concessions he believes will break the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic logjam, he has repeatedly warned of a demographic doomsday for Israel. He's wrong.
By Edwin Black
How celebrating the holiday of freedom led to a capricious punishment and a legal case that may have significant ramifications.
Can Trump actually alter longstanding US policy by recognizing at least the partial sovereignty of Israel over Jerusalem, a change the foreign policy establishment has told us would be cataclysmic?
By J. E. Dyer
Free speech doesn't mean the taxpayer-funded government never has an opinion on what it will/won’t subsidize. If that were the case, society would never have an option to refuse to pay for anything
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
Do we really believe Hamas would not divert money from the funds the US provides to the Palestinian Authority if an alliance government is formed? That would be foolish naiveté and dangerous diplomacy
Obama's policy on Israel has focused on settlements, which he views as illegitimate and "linkage" the theory that if the Palestinian conflict were solved, all other Middle East conflicts would cease
Israel is unprecedentedly integrated into the global economy, highlighting the successful battle against BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions), while rejecting pessimism and fatalism.
A Bloomberg study: "An examination of foreign capital flow into Israel shows a near tripling from 2005 when the so-called BDS was started" Amazing! The harder they try to stop Israel, the more we grow
Jimmy Carter has made a post-presidential career out of lying about Israel. The latest pile of lies is a doozy of an op-ed in the New York Times
The “anti-normalization” campaign–a euphemism for refusing to talk to Israelis and intimidating others into doing the same–has produced boycotts of Israeli cultural figures, businessmen, NGOs and more
Israel is a perfect target to distract from ISIS’s weakening position. By attacking Israel it may be able to rally the Sunni street to its side.
By Isi Leibler
Trump's victory represents a revolt against extreme postmodernism which has undermined the West's moral fiber and its willingness to defend itself, facilitating the emergence of brutal Islamic terror.
By Jack Shebson
Facts for your fingertips on the LEGAL reasons for Israel annexing and building in YESHA
The track record of President-elect Trump, Vice-President-elect Pence, and their foreign policy and national security advisors, suggest that US-Israel relations are expected to improve dramatically
The witch hunt against Bannon is animated by the impotent rage of the "anyone but Trumpers."
Nothing casts more doubt on the wisdom of the West’s drive for Palestinian statehood now than the PA’s treatment of the refugee camps over its 22 years of existence.
Arab Jew-hatred has caused Britain to fail occasionally to condemn and to find excuses for Arab aggression against Israelis, all in the name of appeasing the Arabs and their supporters
In defiance of the global financial downtrend – but as a derivative of Israel’s cutting-edge technologies - Israeli hightech companies raised a significant sum this quarter.
By Howard Zik
The transformation of Ulysses Grant the Civil War General and US President. He went from an anti-Semite to perhaps the greatest presidential friend of the Jews.
The debate will be remembered for discussing both Trump and Bill Clinton’s sexual history as well as for the GOP candidate’s unprecedented threat to jail his opponent if he wins.
Defining a dead murderer as a Shahid indicates that according to Fatah, the murder of Israelis is sanctioned and even desired in the name of Islam.
FIFA’s recognition of teams has never been understood as taking any position on the status of the territory where the team plays
Not every moment was bad for Trump. But while Trump has prided himself on being a strong counter-puncher in debates this time the familiar routine fell flat.
By Sean Savage
The Obama administration has taken a policy of accommodation towards the Baghdad government that has reaped negative consequences, thereby fostering ISIS
Even some of Israel's most stalwart opponents are starting to change course, with some discouraging the BDS, movement, others even engaging in joint military exercises with the Jewish state
By Hadar Sela
As ever, the BBC compromises its own impartiality by failing to inform its audiences of the existence of alternative opinions on that particular issue of ‘international law’.
Today, the Indo-Israeli relationship is a success story with a booming bilateral non-defense trade between the two countries. But the primary link between India and Israel remains defense cooperation.
The reality is that polling is incapable of accurately predicting the outcome of elections like this one, where so many voters are angry, resentful, emotional, negative, and frightened.
Hatoum’s Twitter rant was first exposed by Israeli blogger “Aussie Dave,” who had been one of the chief critics of the video Hatoum posted.
With so much power residing in one individual, a president’s health, let alone illness, is no small matter.
If Hillary is elected U.S. president, she should launch a behind the scenes initiative to effect changes in Israel's policies, according to former Clinton adviser and US Mideast envoy Dennis Ross
{Originally posted to the IPT website} They are known as "the 102 minutes that changed America." Fifteen years later, it is increasingly clear that the 102 minutes of the Sept. 11 attacks also reshaped and changed the world. Indeed perhaps even more than Americans, Europeans now feel the strongest aftershocks, having been shaken by more […]
Though Jibril Rajoub is the PA Head of the Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs, he knows nothing about fairplay or sportsmanship; he is a terrorist, plain and simple.
By J. E. Dyer
Earlier this week, the public learned that the entire $1.7 billion had been transferred to Iran in cash, like some illicit deal--which it was.
By David Bedein
With the US government threatening Israel if it acts against illegal Arab building near Susya, the time has come to examine the real facts on the ground.
By David Bedein
Aug. 2005, Rabbi She’ar-Yashuv Cohen traveled to Jerusalem to make a last minute appeal to Arik Sharon to reconsider his plan to retreat from Gush Katif, History has proven him, not Sharon, correct
On September 25, King Hussein took the extraordinary step of meeting with Israel’s prime minister, despite the countries’ lack of formal diplomatic ties, to warn that Syria and Egypt would soon attack
By J. E. Dyer
Does anyone out there know anyone who would stick a laptop in the mail, in a cavalier manner that would leave it susceptible to being “lost”? Is it conceivable this person might become PRESIDENT?
By David Bedein
10 perverse principles brought to you by the Palestinians
Rostow, co-author of the November 22, 1967 UN Security Council Resolution 242, resolved that under international law: “Jews have the same right to settle in the West Bank as they have in Haifa.”
By Jeff Ballabon and Bruce Abramson
A minority within a minority: Jewish Blue-State professionals who plan to vote for Donald Trump. Can they make the difference?
By Noah Beck
The violence in the multi-party proxy war in Syria seems to be getting worse. Nearly 500000 people have been killed with an average of 262 daily deaths
By Noah Rothman
Clinton told the FBI in an interview regarding her special server that it was Powell who suggested to her that she use this personal email account. Powell now denies it.
By Lazar Berman
A close look at Benjamin Netanyahu’s foreign policy reveals an underappreciated and misunderstood record of accomplishment
It would have been in the larger interest of the United States to script a Memorandum of Understanding with Israel which enhanced Israel's capabilities rather than to constraining them.
By Noah Beck
Muslim Zionist Mahdi Satri: “After 3 years of violence against me after coming out publicly with my Zionism and I’m still the last man standing, standing against my village,”
By J. E. Dyer
A key feature of “Trump truth” is Donald Trump’s unvarnished, attention-grabbing imprecision when he frames contentious statements.
By Hadar Sela
The BBC has in the past frequently and enthusiastically promoted UN politicized messaging on the topic of reconstruction in the Gaza Strip while concurrently ignoring the flaws in the UN’s system.
Reports confirm a profound, bilateral disconnect between Israelis living in US and local Jewish communities. We're not embracing Israelis living here, and, unsurprisingly, they're not embracing us.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
Hamas reportedly siphoned 60% of World Vision Gaza's resources in Gaza to reconstruct Hamas' tunnel network and military installations, in addition to purchasing weapons intended to kill Israelis
Israel is one of the top 5 world high-tech powers. The others? USA, China, Russia and India
PA Central Bureau of Statistics: Israelis pay Palestinian workers twice what they are paid by Palestinian employers drawing Palestinian workers to Israel; in the PA they suffer exploitation
A rush to conclude an MOU before the next president takes office would sacrifice long-term strategic interests on the altar of short-term strategic convenience.
Jewish college students face a climate of intimidation on several California campuses, and campuses around the country
By David Bedein
The UNRWA is not merely funded by the UN and international organizations. It is funded by extremist Islamic sources
Lawfare at its most litigious: Abbas and the Palestinian Authority have determined the best way to aid their people is to sue Britain over the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
By Noah Rothman
Day one of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia was all about healing, but the patients in need of therapy seemed to prefer their condition to treatment.
By Ben Shapiro
Trump's speech was powerfully written and wide-ranging in its critique of America’s problems – it touched on virtually all the victims of the left’s political dominance for the past several decades.
The statistics, published by the Palestinian Authority - claim that Jews are a minority west of the Jordan River. This is a classic case of “lies, damn lies and statistics.”
An organization that gets most of its funding from a foreign government isn’t a “nongovernmental” organization at all, but an instrument of that government’s foreign policy and the EU knows that
The coup attempt in Turkey was very weak, lending fuel that this was indeed a false flag attack devised by Turkish leader Erdogan
By J. E. Dyer
However long Boris struts and frets on the world stage, he’ll be by far the most entertaining Official Foreign Minister out there--And by no means the most foolish.
By Sean Savage
Today, Israel’s leadership appears to be less concerned with Iran’s nuclear ambitions than Iran’s regional ambitions, specifically its involvement in Syria and support for its terror proxies.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
Despite Gadhafi honoring his agreement with the West, in 2011 Pres. Obama and Sec'y of State Clinton, for disproven reasons, decided to remove Gadhafi from power, who was replaced by jihadists
How the international community responds to Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear capability will be crucial.
Israel’s role as America’s Major Non-NATO Ally and the most effective and unconditional geo-strategic ally has vaulted to unprecedented levels.
Obama made concessions allowing Iran to keep its nuclear infrastructure because he believed the regime wanted to “get right with the world.” The president’s trust was misplaced.
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
Why? Why do we decry all other types of terrorism, but bend over backwards to legitimize violence against Israeli Jews?
Israel tax transfers to the PA aren’t gifts; they’re Palestinian taxes Israel collects on the PA’s behalf. By transferring this money, Israel is complicit in incentivizing murder of its own citizens.
Vic Rosenthal of Abu Yehuda fame has a recent piece entitled simply, Ten Propositions, and I intend to examine each - tackling the first five below
Referring to the renewed relations with Turkey, Netanyahu said, “The Middle East is in turmoil. My policy is to create islands of stability with our close neighbors,”
By rewarding Palestinian rejectionism and hate education, the EU has encouraged Palestinian terror and distanced peace. Britain is well out of it.
Since the 1993 establishment of the Palestinian Authority, the Christian majorities of Ramallah, Bethlehem & Beit Jala have been transformed into insignificant minorities, due to Muslim intimidation
Contrary to conventional 'wisdom,' Israel’s “occupation” does NOT spur Palestinian terror; irrefutably, terror increases when Palestinians gain control of land, drops when Israel reasserts control
By J. E. Dyer
The Department of Justice initially censored the transcripts of the terrorist Omar Mateen, perpetrator of the Orlando Massacre, deleting his pledge to ISIS.
The drop in settlement construction and an increase in efforts on behalf of Israeli Arabs don’t exactly fit the narrative of a government and public mired in right-wing extremism
That Israel is so consistently blamed for the problem of water it makes it less likely that the Palestinians will deal with it themselves.
There has never been a “dissenting message” that was signed by so many diplomats within the State Department.
Not only is the approach of “going to war” against the Reform &Conservative over a prayer area at the Kotel doomed to fail, it will only further strengthen them.
August 14, 2026 
