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By Dov Shurin
My mother, the eldest daughter of Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky, zt”l, was niftar last month at the age of 92. She took her last breath in her home in Efrat, Israel, next door to the shul that was my father’s for 24 years before his passing in 2007.
Following the Boston Marathon bombing, one crucial point will likely remain overlooked. The most loathsome aspect of this or any other terror bombing attack on civilians will always lie in the inexpressibility of physical pain. While all decent people will abhor the idea of bombs expressly directed at the innocent, whether here or in other countries, none will ever be able to process the very deepest horrors of what has been inflicted.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
It's only natural to see increasing evidence of Jerusalem's glorious Jewish past being unearthed, quite literally, under modern Israeli sovereignty. The new archaeological finds are also very timely – as the Arab onslaught attempting to detach Jerusalem from its Jewish roots gains steam, the facts on the ground, or "under" the ground, show quite otherwise.
To assume that your opponents have any decency, as the Republicans habitually do, is to be left behind in Politics 1.0.
The media loved Obama, but it discovered early on that he did not love it back.
Are we to believe that these Jews who were devout and pious were being punished?
The progressive consolidation imagines that organization can contain the messier side of man.
Palestinian youths from Hebron, though, who met with Israelis near Bethlehem to share their problems and insights have been forced to issue a statement distancing themselves from the meeting.
Benghazi isn't likely to keep Hillary out of the Democratic field in 2016, but after 2008, she is justifiably paranoid.
The growing revelations that the Obama State Department watered down public statements on the attack in order to cleanse them of any mention of al Qaeda and terrorism is a travesty.
Al-Qaradawi's visit and statements also serve as a reminder that the Israeli-Arab conflict is centered, more than ever, around religion.
Everyone who reads newspapers should know at least one thing. Threats to annihilate Israel have always been unremarkable. Almost never, it seems, have Israel’s existential enemies sought any reason for concealment.
Israel’s government did not want to liberate Jerusalem. Or to be more specific, the Labor and National Religious Party ministers did not want to liberate Jerusalem. “Who needs that whole Vatican?” Defense Minister Moshe Dayan explained at the time.
Last Friday, the Western Wall underwent an unwelcome transformation from sacred site to media circus as the group known as the Women of the Wall sought to hold a decidedly non-traditional prayer service.
When in 1948 President Harry Truman recognized the new Jewish State of Israel, Einstein declared it 'the fulfillment of our dream.'
By Daniel Pipes
If Assad is winning, Western governments should respond by helping the rebels to prevent Assad from crushing them.
Palestinians in Lebanon are subjected to apartheid laws that deny them work, social and health benefits, and freedom of movement.
Muslim hearts and minds are the obsession of the policymakers of the dying West, but who cares about the hearts and minds of the men and women who defend us.
By Dov Gilor
The title above is a lovely thought. Unfortunately, there are too many times when Israeli Orthodox Jews behave in very divisive ways. I have mentioned, on occasion, that it would most probably bring the Mashiach if Orthodox Jews in Israel were ever to unite. We are so divided politically that Sephardi Jews will not support Ashkenazi Jews and Ultra-Orthodox Jews will not work with the Modern Orthodox or with the Zionist Orthodox.
In the face of seemingly irrational threats from North Korea, at least one American conclusion should be obvious and prompt: Nuclear strategy is a "game" that sane world leaders must play, whether they like it, or not. President Obama can choose to play this complex game purposefully or inattentively. But, one way or another, he will have to play.
The Arab League is an incompetent and ineffectual body that has long been ridiculed by most Arabs.
Whether or not amnesty comes, the United States of America is becoming too much like Mexico; a society of limited possibilities and diminished social mobility.
Israel has never stopped Palestinians from holding free elections or implementing administrative and financial reforms.
By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Arash Farin
Too many times, the world has learned the hard way by 'turning the other cheek' while dictators terrorized both their own people and other nations.
Netanyahu made an invaluable turnabout in the way Israel explains itself. We must complete that turnabout. We must not go half way.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
A zoning plan that would have enabled the creation of critical Arab facts-on-the-ground in a strategically vital area of Jerusalem has been shelved thanks to efforts by several Zionist organizations.
A fundamental inequality is evident in all expressions of the Middle East peace process.
By Daniel Pipes
Muslims make up 30 out of 31 most wanted terrorists, or about 97 percent of them.
The left understands that it is working against natural emotions of loyalty and loss, and so it uses deception.
In the Hebrew Bible everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes.
Few of those dancing in the circle passing around the fire know what they are truly commemorating and yet the act is its own commemoration.
PA officials and journalists later explained that the ban does not apply to some journalists working for the Israeli daily Ha'aretz and who report on 'Palestinian suffering.'
By Daniel Pipes
Sometimes one is better off when an opponent feels compelled to prove his bona fides.
By Dov Gilor
Israel recently commemorated Memorial Day in memory of its fallen heroes. Sadness permeates the day as we remember the sons, daughters and parents who have sacrificed their lives so that the Jewish Nation can continue to exist.
One must presume that President Obama’s most recent calls for Israeli cooperation in the Middle East peace process are balanced, fair, and well-intentioned. Why not? At the same time, unsurprisingly, these all-too-familiar calls are manifestly thin, in the sense that they lack any genuine intellectual content.
The following is my response to a woman who criticized me for visiting the Temple Mount. In a letter to me, she claimed that I broke the law and irresponsibly provoked Arab anger. She suggested that my actions should conform to the will of the “majority.”
The Afghan soldiers murdering American soldiers often do it unprompted and sometimes even without any prior planning.
If the fathers of Europe would like to see a future for their children, then they must stop bringing crocodiles home to their birthday parties.
By Daniel Pipes
One must expect future non-suicide bombers to turn to niqabs or burqas, as many terrorists and criminals have repeatedly done.
Forgetting how to hate can be just as damaging as forgetting how to love.
There is no need for Obama to play Therapist-in-Chief. It's not his job, even if he is better at it than he is at his real job.
There was no such clear dividing line when September 11 faded from memory and we returned to a September 10 world.
As prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Fayyad was never involved in any of the peace talks with Israel.
By Daniel Pipes
Though my suggestion to now back Assad to prevent Jihadi takeover and allow both sides to fight themselves to exhaustion was rejected, it seems now the administration is taking note of my counsel.
It is always easiest to blame the rest of the world and not to make an accounting of your own ideology.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Rather than ask why Minister Baird met with Minister Livny in the eastern Jerusalem office, why not ask why Minister Livny agreed to meet there with Minister Baird?
Needed changes in Israel's decision making process have simply not kept up with the growing complexities and synergies of Israel's always-hostile external environment.
By Dov Shurin
I want to share a Holocaust story as told to me by Heshy Frank, owner of Quality Carpet and my radio sponsor for the past 32 years.
The state of Israel this week turned 65, defying history and the odds to celebrate its continued existence in a very dangerous part of the world.
Let us also not forget that Adelson criticized many of the social values of the Republican Party before it became fashionable to do so.
Even if Mashaal himself changes, Hamas will always remain the same Hamas.
By Daniel Pipes
The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters to Egypt's Interior Ministry. It further reports that this shipment left Wilmington, Delaware, on Mar. 14 aboard the SS Jamestown and that it has just arrived the port of Suez. They cost the Egyptian government just under US$2.5 million. According to ministry spokesperson […]
The dust is the memory of ages and the children shall always return to the dust of their ancestors.
Fayyad has no grassroots support or political power bases among Palestinians.
The urban political machine has gone national. It's here. It's there. It's everywhere.
Israel must continue to base its policies toward both Iran and 'Palestine' upon an utterly candid and unvarnished awareness of threats to Jewish life.
Why throw years of friendly cooperation into the trashcan?
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
Israel, for its part, knows that developing E-1 is critical for its own existence.
We must have peace in our time, the peacemakers say. And Israel must provide it.
By Tzvi Fishman
The next chapter of the award-winning novel.
By Daniel Pipes
What is it about Jewish organizations that they acclaim their opponents?
Are we on an inevitable evolutionary trajectory rising up or are we doomed to repeat dark ages, progress and then dark ages again?
Criticizing terror as a means while approving of its ends leads to absurdity.
Under Clinton, the anti-war business was booming on the fringe, but the news media never deigned to show up and inflate rally counts the way they did once Bush was in office.
A fatwa allows the jihadis to have sexual intercourse with women who fall captive during war.
Through the process of the ten plagues, the Jews saw the Egyptians for what they were, just another group of petrified humans.
Under all relevant criteria of international law, Iran's ongoing stance toward Israel remains unequivocally genocidal.
By Daniel Pipes
Middle East expert Daniel Pipes advocates backing Assad in Syria to keep the civil war there going.
The left's deconstruction of social institutions is not a quest for equality, but for destruction.
The fatwa purportedly allows the jihadis, who abandoned their wives to fight against Assad's regime, to marry girls for a few hours to satisfy their sexual needs.
By Daniel Pipes
Now that Israelis humiliated themselves and Erdogan is rampaging ahead, some are awakening to the fact that this apology only made matters worse.
When all the ribbetting is silenced, we begin to hear an old, familiar tune: the melodious song of our own souls.
The Palestinian Authority, which has often displayed a large degree of intolerance toward journalists who refuse to serve as a mouthpiece for its leaders, wants to work only with sympathetic reporters.
There have been no recognized examples of anticipatory self-defense as a specifically preventative anti-genocide measure under international law.
The struggle for Israeli sovereignty on the Temple Mount symbolizes humanity’s struggle in the transition from enslavement to liberty.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdogan's government has mastered the art of provocation and is being rewarded for it.
Like the rest of the Arab and Islamic countries, Palestinians have been told that the U.S. is the "Great Satan" and the number one enemy of all Arabs and Muslims.
As I write these words, a Jewish toddler injured in a Palestinian terror attack is lying in a hospital bed struggling for her life.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
One doesn't have to be a Temple Mount loyalist to realize that something not good for the Jews is happening in the world's holiest spot – under Israeli sovereignty.
Do you really think that retreat from the very foundations of our lives will bring us quiet?
Every year Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad instructs the UN General Assembly that Israel is a defiling historical error, a hideous mistake bound to be rectified. Sometimes he goes cheerfully beyond such a narrowly predictive denunciation and proceeds to offer an alleged rationale for Israel's "disappearance."
In the free market, money made you king. But under socialism, money just buys you access and leverage.
By Daniel Pipes
Western powers enjoy overwhelming battlefield superiority but face great difficulty when trying to shape other countries.
The argument that democracy had made the Muslim world dysfunctional was always chancy.
By Daniel Pipes
Both Hamas and Fatah are playing the game of pretending to end violence.
The greatest tragedy made manifest in Steubenville is the attitude of teenage men toward girls.
Schools across the country are banning not the gun, but the idea of the gun.
By Daniel Pipes
Erdoğan can be seen as the anti-Atatürk, the leader who seeks to undo substantial parts of his predecessor's legacy, especially Atatürk's rejection of Shari'a, or Islamic law.
As Obama visits the region, he would do well to take the following facts into consideration.
By Daniel Pipes
Publishing house Palgrave Macmillan apologized for appearing to endorse "the Palestinian struggle."
September 4, 2026 
