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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.
If Hamas believes Egypt wants to topple their regime, they would never dare initiate war against the Egyptian army, but firing rockets at Israel is cheap and easy.
Again and again, we hear the nearly visceral incantations from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah: "We love death."
Immediately nullify all the orders that discriminate between Muslims and non-Muslims at the entrance to the Temple Mount.
By Daniel Pipes
"Whoever tries to uproot us from the city of our forefathers will achieve the opposite."
The Jordanian monarch fears being accused of treason and collaboration with the "Zionist enemy."
By Dov Shurin
Hashem simply goes beyond the letter of the law in His love for us.
Shamir’s blunder was even greater than Golda Meir’s in the Yom Kippur War.
Easily misrepresented or abused, international law can generally be manipulated to serve virtually any preferred geo-political strategy.
The delay allowed Assad to go on TV with Charlie Rose and come across as calm, measured, and reasonable.
Hamas faces two options: initiate new confrontation with Israel, or to confront the Egyptian Aramy in the Sinai.
Tragically, we are heading straight for a repeat of the U.S. attack on Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 1991.
Now more than ever it is apparent – incontestable, in fact – that the Arab/Islamic world has long been preparing to destroy itself.
We can afford a few cruise missiles fired at Bashar Assad’s air force and presidential palaces.
By Daniel Pipes
By all accounts, the mullahs in Tehran are getting ever closer to the point where they at will can order nuclear bombs to be made and readied for use.
When children die, God forbid, I want to hear Rabbis who demand that God be a protector of life rather than blaming tragedy on human sin.
"The Egyptians are strangling the Gaza Strip." — Fawzi Barhoum, spokesman for Hamas.
Any lingering makes the national camp a partner in these crimes.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The Israeli curriculum is also offensive, according to Ma'an, because it actually dares to refer to Israel as a bastion of human rights and democracy.
If the gassing of children is not an urgent matter than nothing is.
How to win the support of the Israeli public for peace.
"I can get along with you – but with the Zionists, I can’t.”
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
If peace talks are such a good thing, why is there so much pessimism regarding the chances of success for the Israel-PA talks? This is not a rhetorical question; it has a very concrete, specific, one-word answer: Incitement.
By Daniel Pipes
Surviving the strikes will permit Assad to boast that he defeated the United States.
The lobbyist tried to convince me that this is pragmatic politics, that this is the argument around which we can now achieve a consensus.
By Daniel Pipes
His singular foreign policy accomplishment, trumpeted ad nauseam, was the execution of Osama bin Laden.
Palestinian leaders have legitimized Israel to the point where it has become a "crime" for any Palestinian to be seen talking to, much less negotiating with any Israeli.
Islam is undergoing a modern crisis which perhaps only its clerics and lay leaders can rescue it from.
By Daniel Pipes
Ahmed Shafiq, the former air force commander and former president Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, actually won the presidential race by a narrow margin.
My problem is with the part of the law that requires 61 signatures in order to submit a no-confidence measure in the Knesset, which effectively neutralizes the no-confidence option.
By Dov Gilor
It really is time for painful sacrifices for peace. No one wants his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to suffer the pangs of war and strife. It is time to end the strife and make peace in the Middle East.
By Dov Shurin
I just celebrated the 29th anniversary of my aliyah to Israel. I have experienced two intifadas, the disastrous results of the Oslo agreements, the assassination of a prime minister, and the tragic expulsion of thousands of our citizens from their beautiful homes in Gush Katif.
For the second time in the past three months, Israel on Sunday declared its intention to build over 1,000 housing units in areas beyond the 1967 lines.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Yes, Israel made a sickening decision to release high-profile terrorist murderers in exchange for the PA's consent to sit at a table and insist that Israel's generous concessions do not suffice. However, it seems to have come together with a consolation prize of sorts: The announcement by Housing Minister Uri Ariel of tenders for the construction of nearly 400 new housing units in Judea and Samaria, and another close to 800 in three of Jerusalem's post-'67 neighborhoods.
We watched and watched, anticipating the kill.
By Daniel Pipes
The point of having embassies in the first place is for them to remain open...
The activists do not care about the Palestinians' suffering as much as they are interested in advancing their anti-Israel agenda. They rarely have anything good to offer the Palestinians.
The capitulation on the Temple Mount leads to the construction halt in Jerusalem.
They regard the prisoner release as something Israel was supposed to have done years ago. Many will continue to see it as part of an Israeli-American scheme to extract concessions.
By Daniel Pipes
As Netanyahu appears to be making excessive and immoral concessions to the Palestinian Authority, Danon has emerged as a leading dissident ready to challenge his prime minister
Mehmet, perhaps the world’s most famous Muslim who is not a head of state, is a righteous and proud Ambassador of his faith and feels an innate kinship and brotherhood with the Jewish people.
The collective subconscious that pulls the young people of Tel Aviv’s trendy Shenkin Street to alternative lamentations on the city rooftops discovers something in Tisha B’Av.
By Daniel Pipes
The military has grown so large because of preferential tax treatment, subsidized labor, an extra-legal status, and old-boy networks.
The nation of Israel is losing its grip on the Temple Mount.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
The name of the diplomatic game over the past few weeks seems to have been "Bear Down on Israel." The pressure has come in many forms:
By now it’s known that I have strongly supported Samantha’s nomination.
While the Egyptian coup was taking place, the Knesset passed a law that testifies to the fact that Israel does not really have a democratic culture, either.
By Dov Shurin
What were you thinking on Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the year? The day when we mourn the destruction of our two Temples; our expulsion from Spain, England and France; the Crusades, the Holocaust; our two thousand years of wandering the earth?
Nearly seven decades since the end of World War II, Poland is once again turning on its Jews. In a stunning move last week, the lower house of the Polish parliament rejected a bill that would have restored the legality of shechita, or kosher slaughter, by a vote of 222 to 178.
Signs of the impending trouble awaiting King Abdullah emerged in the past few days.
The central quality of leadership is not eloquence but moral courage, a preparedness to be hated in the pursuit what’s right.
The principle that we must defend ourselves by ourselves was the guiding light of all of Israel’s governments – from the Sinai Campaign until the First Gulf War.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
How many times does PA chieftain Mahmoud Abbas have to repeat that the Israelis are planning to rebuild the Holy Temple atop the most volatile spot in the world before the world begins to accept it as true?
The downfall of the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt is a severe blow to Hamas
Originally published at the Gatestone Institute. The consequences in the long-term are disastrous: they embolden the radicals and help raise new generations of Arabs and Muslims on hatred and anti-Western sentiments. Last week, Hussam Khader, a prominent Fatah activist, woke up to the sounds of gunfire outside his home in the Balata refugee camp in […]
Peter Beinart and Jeffrey Goldberg maintain far-left sentiments on Israel, while others invest their lives in bringing people like Cory Booker closer to the Jewish community.
The legal authorities in Israel have all the legal tools necessary to completely reject the petitions against the residents of Amona.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
What could be more natural for a column dealing with Jerusalem than to pay special interest to the Temple Mount, the site of the Beit HaMikdash and the very center of the world? Especially given the distinct impression that throughout Israel, interest in this holiest spot has been swelling notably?
By Dov Shurin
In recent years, the way people greet each other in Israel has changed. For as long as I can remember the greeting was always, “mah shlomcha,” which is equivalent to “How are you?” The Israeli answer was generally, “B’seder, Baruch Hashem,” equivalent to “I’m OK, thank God.”
My parents arrived as Austrian Jewish refugees in Switzerland almost exactly sixty years ago.
By Dov Gilor
Israel is a country that understands security concerns. Many civil rights have been sacrificed in the name of security and Israelis are used to being checked every time they enter a shopping center, a large store or any public building. Americans recently learned that they, too, are subject to many checks on their most private activities.
Without a vision, strategy is impossible. Tactics become farcical.
Noone, least of all me, wants to see any Arab child suffer, God forbid.
What, exactly, can we expect from 'Palestine'?
I was surprised to learn that the MK Miri Regev-led Knesset Interior Committee and I, a Knesset member, were not allowed to visit the Temple Mount.
By Daniel Pipes
Secure Freedom Radio Originally published at Daniel Pipes
By Daniel Pipes
Things have never been so good in the Jewish state.
Back in 2009, the now infamous Goldstone Report was first released by the UN’s Human Rights Council.
We are witnessing a complete loss of common sense on the part of Israel’s government and security forces
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
When we talk about developing Jerusalem and ensuring that it remains united under Jewish sovereignty, what could be more critical than actually building Jewish housing? Yet it is an open secret that the Netanyahu government has been waging a long-running general construction freeze in the Jewish areas of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), as well as in the liberated areas of Yerushalayim.
On the political arena, the appointment of Hamdallah will have no impact whatsoever.
They have begun threatening businessmen who want to work with Israeli counterparts.
Kerry's plan to boost the Palestinian economy has hardly impressed the Palestinian Authority leadership.
“This area is under Muslim sovereignty,” the senior officer on the Temple Mount said to me. “I thought that we were in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel,” I answered, as I set out on a series of letter-writing campaigns and meetings with the chief of Israel police, the attorney general and the minister for internal security.
By Dov Gilor
The Israeli Parliament is usually controlled by a coalition of different political parties because no one party receives enough votes to have a majority. Unlike in the U.S., where there are two major political parties and one of the two political parties commands a majority of the seats in the Senate and/or in the House, in Israel the government is composed of many, many small political parties, each pushing its own agenda.
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