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But the most painful part of an otherwise illuminating and extraordinary Forum was Iranian President Rouhani's speech.
Peace cannot be defined as the goal of a state.
Obama is placing all the pressure on 16 Senators from his own party rather than squarely on the Iranians.
By Daniel Pipes
Oman will grant Iran a strategic location on a mountain overlooking the whole gulf region.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeieris is browbeating Israel in public.
President Obama’s core argument on a Middle East peace process is still founded on incorrect assumptions.
By Dov Shurin
This past Shabbos, as we read the weekly Torah portion of Bishalach, my son suddenly said to me, “Dad, I have a feeling Sharon is going to pass away today, because we just read his name in Az Yashir [the Song of the Sea] where it says ‘arik charbi.’ ”
The communities of Gush Katif were miraculous.
Once upon a time in America, every adult could recite at least some Spenglerian theory of decline.
The right-wing Mattot Arim organization annually rates rightist MKs.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
One of the claims made by pro-Arab interests on Jerusalem is against archaeological findings.
By Sara Lehmann
Proud as I am of my daughter’s enthusiasm and her proclivity for outreach, I somehow can’t shake a niggling regret that it had to be in Germany. As the daughter of a Hungarian mother who escaped deportation by running with her family from the Nazis and the daughter-in-law of a Dutch Jewish man whose parents were shot by the Nazis and who was liberated from Bergen Belsen at the age of 12, I am one generation closer to the Holocaust than my daughter. And one degree closer to the idea of shunning anything and everything German.
In return for its withdrawal from Gaza, Israel got a major war.
President Obama’s core argument is still founded on incorrect assumptions.
Not only are social values deconstructing at an accelerated rate, but we are also experiencing territorial deconstruction.
It’s rather a sign of how badly Israel is losing on campus.
By Daniel Pipes
White racists invented the idea that accomplished black Americans are not Africans but "Moors."
Specific strategic lessons from the Bar Kokhba rebellion.
By Daniel Pipes
"U.S. Weighing Closer Ties With Hardline Islamists in Syria"
The widespread support for "Hitler" [Jamal Abu al Rub] reflects the state of dissatisfaction with Abbas and his top aides.
Penn managed to sneak Ostreicher across a hostile border and into a safe and currently undisclosed location in the United States.
Ever since he vanished, the American government had repeatedly asserted that Levinson was a private businessman -- his own safety.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
National park status is, unfortunately, not an ironclad guarantee against Arab encroachment.
It’s been more than ten years since Parkinson’s moved into our home.
Still facing an effectively unhindered nuclear threat from Iran, Israel will soon need to choose between two strategic options.
By Dov Shurin
God decided to cast Truth down to earth and went on to create the world.
I have heard many Rabbis tell me that they don’t wish to dirty their hands by getting involved in political matters.
The more severe scenario of a nuclear Iran is that the Iranians will not even need to go to war.
For states, as for individuals, fear and reality go together naturally.
By Sara Lehmann
Only 26 years ago, 250,000 Jews demonstrated on the National Mall in Washington. It was an unprecedented display of solidarity with Soviet Jewry and played a significant role in facilitating the release of Soviet Jews. The demonstrators were Jews of all stripes and from all across America, Orthodox and non-Orthodox. I know, because as a young student I was there.
Terrorists are not folks and Americans were not attacked but murdered in a despicable and cold-blooded act of terrorism.
The arrest of a businessman is part of a campaign by the PA to intimidate and extort money.
So much of the struggle between Israel and the Arabs continues to concern space.
Why should a young Israeli become an observant Jew when Judaism’s official representatives preserve it in its exile version?
By Daniel Pipes
Saudi media warned that the Iran regime will not be fettered by the accord.
Our government made a commitment to Iraq to return the collection once it's restored.
Israel must start a process of land privatization and the land’s return to its natural owners: the general public.
An undifferentiated or across-the-board commitment to nuclear ambiguity could prove harmful to Israel's's overall security.
By Daniel Pipes
Anti-Islamic sentiments in the West are increasing, probably at a faster rate than Islamic practices.
The PA doesn't want international donors to hear about its corruption and violations of freedom of the media.
The Israeli society has created the Arab MKs’ uncivilized behavior.
It is, after all, difficult for any civilized people to acknowledge self-defense imperatives that could allow killing as remediation.
By Daniel Pipes
Dallas was a bastion of right-wing kooks with a vast legacy -- now, watch how this bastion gets blamed for the communist Oswald...
As far as the PA is concerned, the only "heroes" are prisoners held in Israel. Palestinians who are being tortured and killed in Arab prisons are not worth a mention.
A core element of international law is the basic rule of nullum crimen sine poena, or "no crime without a punishment."
The lords of the land attempted to prevent the residents of Nazareth Illit from voting for Gabso. But the people – heaven help us – disobeyed the lords of the land and nevertheless elected him.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
While the Temple Mount evokes such strong Muslim emotions, it is no longer clear that it does the same for most Jews.
By Daniel Pipes
Barack Obama's approach pulls the United States back from its customary adult role and has it join the children.
By Daniel Pipes
Israeli responses have been stark, blunt unlike anything in memory.
The last time the Americans tried to extract concessions from the Palestinians, within a few weeks the Palestinians launched the Second Intifada against Israel; Abbas has already threatened as much.
In law, one man's terrorist can never be another man's freedom fighter.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Gilo, Har Homa and Ramat Shlomo – among the Jerusalem neighborhoods liberated from Jordanian control during the Six-Day War – are scheduled to gain hundreds of apartments.
By Sara Lehmann
The lack of an effective and proactive public relations campaign by the Israeli government has long been lamented. Somehow, advertisements showcasing Israel’s gorgeous beaches and the Tel Aviv nightlife just don’t cut it when the international media regularly bash Israel for its “apartheid” treatment of the Palestinians. But even a superficial Israeli hasbara effort wouldn’t get snickered at if it had consistent and corresponding government policy to sustain its claims.
By Ali Salim
Is anyone looking at who, exactly, is criticizing the Western world's actions that defend it against terrorism? Do they really believe that terrorism can be successfully fought without violence?
By Daniel Pipes
Unlike nearby Israel, which is also surrounded, Cyprus lacks either a military option or protective fences.
A weak and divided Fatah could further boost Hamas's popularity among Palestinians.
By Daniel Pipes
Should the crackdown succeed in isolating, weakening, and destroying the Islamists, then others will replicate it elsewhere.
Within Israel's decisional boundaries, diplomatic processes that are premised on assumptions of reason and rationality may soon need to be reconsidered.
By SOVEREIGNTY
Israel Prize Laureate Geula Cohen calls for accelerated and frequent action in the Knesset and outside of it until the “historical crack” is found, through which the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria can be advanced.
None of this is a criticism of Reform Jews who are my brothers in every way.
PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's gestures toward President Bashar Assad will only bring him closer to Iran, Hizbollah and radical Palestinian groups that oppose any peace with Israel.
The reaction to his statement has been illuminating as to the double standards that are often employed on matters relating to Israel.
This Sunday, my legislative proposal on medical marijuana will be brought to a vote in the Ministerial Legislative Committee.
There's no shortage of candidates for PA deputy president -- including Marwan Barghouti, jailed for five life sentences for his role in terror attacks.
There are thousands of unqualified soferim in both America and Israel who sell items that, far from being first-rate, are not even kosher.
By Daniel Pipes
In Russia, Christians are declining by 0.6 percent a year and Muslims are increasing at the same rate, which will have dramatic effects over time
The overwhelming majority of Jerusalem's Arabs are still afraid of the radicals.
As I noted here last week, “the situation of survival is the central situation of power. Yet, as the ‘Middle East peace process’ makes Israel's survival more and more problematic, this enterprise now effectively deprives Israel of its power. Left to proceed, the process will eventually permit Israel's enemies to enjoy a triumph that still remains cleverly concealed, the conspicuous triumph experienced by certain still-living persons, when confronted by the powerless one who is dying.”
By Dov Shurin
To me, the biggest joke of it all was the gleeful announcement by Rabin that “We are no longer an am livadad yishkone, a nation that dwells alone!”
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
What exactly does MK Hanegbi mean when he says "no division of Jerusalem?"
Step by step, all Israeli governments since 1967 have ceded the Temple Mount.
In Israel, it’s easy to throw a recalcitrant husband in jail for refusing to grant a get. In the United States it’s much more challenging.
Believing, naively, in a universal international obligation to preserve life, Jerusalem fails to understand that death is identified by its enemies as a zero-sum event.
Last week we witnessed the collapse of the preconception that has guided Israel’s strategy for dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat.
By Sara Lehmann
With national and international crises making headlines, the New York City mayoral race has all but receded to the back pages. But with the first of three scheduled debates between the two remaining major party candidates less than a week away, voters will finally be able to concentrate on substantive issues and policy rather than the circus we were treated to over the summer.
Crimes were committed, but not a holocaust, against both Jews and non-Jews, and even this must still be verified by historians...
Today’s model of outreach is fatally flawed seeing as it necessarily forces a choice on non-affiliated Jews to choose between the Jewish and mainstream worlds.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
While Lyon is backed by the haredi parties, Barkat has been endorsed by leading religious-Zionist rabbis.
In the most truly critical issues of mega-survival, we humans may now be living far more absurdly than ever before.
By Daniel Pipes
In fact, I disagree often and volubly with Israeli policies.
Those who use either chemical, or even conventional weapons to slaughter innocent people must be held accountable.
September 4, 2026 
