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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.
Many readers have probably seen the film “Sarah’s Key,” a powerful 2010 movie that reminds its viewers of overwhelming French collaboration with the Nazis. Even today it seems widely believed that France carried on more or less heroically under the German occupation, and that the 1942 roundups of Jews in occupied France must have been carried out by the SS or Gestapo directly. In fact, however, as “Sarah’s Key” instructs in understated yet utterly hideous detail, these roundups were executed, more or less enthusiastically, by the regular French police.
Republicans would be foolish to give up on minority voters, but even more foolish to give up on low- income white voters.
What infuriates New York Times reporters and State Department trolls alike is that Israelis can go for hours and even days without contemplating the tortures prepared for them.
Palestinians claim that the mere presence of Jewish visitors is a 'desecration' of the holy site.
Eric Garcetti’s caring for those who are struggling would become his defining political legacy as a Los Angeles council member and as President of the Council.
By Daniel Pipes
Other characteristically Muslim crimes taking place in Western countries include honor killings, female genital mutilation, and slave holding.
Praising Abbas for instructing his security forces to stop torturing Palestinian detainees is like welcoming a convicted armed robber's promise to retire.
The importance of the caucus on organ harvesting in China, sponsored recently by the Liberal Lobby in the Knesset, cannot be exaggerated.
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.
October 30, 2026 
