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By Ben Shapiro
There's good news and bad news. First the bad news: Pres. Obama has 2 weeks left in office. Now the good news: Pres. Obama has ONLY 2 weeks left in office. Let's hope he goes on an early vacation.
If Haaretz had its way, it’s progressive and politically correct to ignore the wishes of Israeli Arabs who don’t want to be described as Palestinian and call them, Palestinian regardless.
By Rick Richman
It is ludicrous to argue that the settlements are an “obstacle to peace,” because they were not an obstacle to Israel offering the Palestinians a state on three separate occasions.
It is little known that hundreds of thousands of Arab squatters in ''Arab East Jerusalem'' live on land still owned by the Jewish National Fund.
FACT: The only state without 1 town named for a biblical site is Obama’s home state, Hawaii, adding a touch of irony to the lame-duck POTUS' refraining from vetoing the UN resolution condemning Israel
By Barry Shaw
The most abhorrent aspect of the UNSC resolution is the fact that it tries to give control of all Jewish holy sites in the “occupied” areas to the Palestinians.
For those who support a Jewish, Democratic Israel, committed to civil rights for all its citizens- including the right to not be murdered-David Friedman is the right choice for US Ambassador to Israel
By Aryeh Green
Real moderation, tolerance and co-existence on the Arab side, with an accurate Western understanding of the historical, legal & social factors perpetuating the situation, would make all the difference
The Judean Rose cites her 10 Condemnations of the most recent and offensive UN/US travesty
By Mindy Stein
It seems the Chanukah party co-hosted in Washington by the country of Azerbaijan and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations was THE Chanukah party to attend in the Capital
Most of my fellow Israelis' (especially my neighbors here in YESHA) objections to Secretary Kerry’s speech stems from assumptions he makes. We find these assumptions absurd. Here's the SHORT list:
For the last night: Chanukah is a multifaceted festival and we aspire to reveal its many faces so that they may shed their radiance on the nation returning to its land and to its independence.
A nation that acknowledges the importance of spiritual values alongside national security and material prosperity becomes a national candle on the world arena, a veritable 'light unto the nations'
Obama's considerable self-regard, coupled with his very thin skin, has propelled him to scapegoat and punish a blameless target for his frustration and rage. The target? Jewish Israel.
By Zionist Organization of America
Kerry’s speech was a few tossed bones to Israel while again stabbing Israel in the back with a proposal that endangers the Jewish state.
Kerry and the Obama team won't acknowledge that Israel is the victim and the Palestinians are the aggressors nor recognize the difference between democratic Israel and the terror-promoting PA regime.
By Elie Pieprz
Kerry has demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of international diplomacy and Kerry's hubris has deluded him to believe that every one of his colossal failures was actually a success.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Commenting on Kerry’s speech, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon said the Obama Administration “acted against Israel at the U.N., and any claim to the contrary is a distortion of reality.”
By Bruce Abramson and Jeff Ballabon
It is Obama, not President-elect Trump, who has the bully pulpit. Obama chose to wield that power in a way that will make another Arab/Israeli war more likely and create a diplomatic crisis for the US
As awareness about child safety grows, there are practical questions that arise on how to deal with convicted sex offender within the community.
Because numerous Jewish organizations refuse to support the legal, political, historic, and religious right of Jews to live in the Jewish homelands in Judea/Samaria and east Jerusalem, Obama succeeded
There’s really only one suitable Zionist response to last week’s UN Security Council resolution on the settlements: massive settlement construction.
By Barry Shaw
Obama’s dereliction of international and humanitarian responsibilities by failing to implement his infamous “red lines” in Syria led to the Syrian genocide and made a mockery of his Nobel Peace Prize
The UN resolution effectively demands that Israel withdraw from the Jewish Quarter, from Jerusalem's new neighborhoods and from all of Judea and Samaria.
By Edwin Black
The Conference Chanukah party was timed to coincide with the official Obama's WH Chanukah party nearby and proved Israel has great ties with numerous Muslim countries and is NOT as isolated as feared.
This year, the UN was bookmarked by startling resolutions orchestrated by Pres. Obama: the Iran Nuclear Deal in Jan., and in Dec. Jewish presence declared illegal in areas integral to Jewish history.
It is one thing to advocate the two-state solution in the pursuit of peace, and entirely another when argued as a matter of belief in the 'lie of occupation.' Obama indicted Israel as a criminal state
By Barry Shaw
The UNSC calls the Old City with the kotel, Jewish Quarter populated by Jews and filled with Jewish sites, synagogues, businesses, and East Jerusalem “Palestinian Territory" occupied since 1967
By Isi Leibler
With the indigenous population shrinking and the Muslim birthrate soaring, unless the flow of migrants is stemmed, by the end of the century the foundations of European civilization may be destroyed.
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.
Dreidels are my talisman, my touchstone. They reassure me in the most innocent and delightful way that our miracles will continue. And so, wherever I am, anywhere on the globe, I look for dreidels.
If a paper holds a pro-Palestinian agenda, they cease reporting the news, rather they promote an agenda. The NY Times and Washington Post are both guilty of this.
AMCHA reports nearly 100 more incidents of anti-Semitism in college settings during the first 6 months of 2016 compared to the first 6 months of 2015. Not surprisingly this has hardly been publicized.
What horrifies opponents of Friedman isn’t his opinion of JStreet but he opposes the two-state solution, supports Israel’s settlements, and believes in moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem
I decided to take my audience to somewhere they’d never been before, to my world, the world of authentic Judaism and love of Israel. That’s why I performed with my Yarmulke and not a hat
The Arabs precipitate a conflict, make explicit demands of the victor and threaten another Intifada unless Israel complies with their ultimatums, yet they have NEVER been criticized for intransigence
David Friedman, President-elect Trump's choice for ambassador to Israel, is completely unlike his predecessors. And that's what drives the critics of Israel crazy.
For the NY Times, as for so many on the “progressive” left, the problem with Trump wasn't Trump but the Republican Party itself.
Is there anything we can learn from Laban? The very thought of it seems absurd! Yet, for many in our community, there are lessons – important lessons – that we can learn from him.
I've got news for the world: Israel doesn't 'ocupy' the Palestinians. With one of the world's largest per-capita security forces, the Palestinian Authority are the ones who "occupy" the Palestinians.
A loving memorial to two great pillars of the venerable The Jewish Press
I was recently approached by someone who asked me why childhood sexual abuse in our communities is such a hot topic right now. My response was that it’s about time.
The alt-left’s eagerness to embrace the alt-right’s fantasy of Israel shows how alike both fringes are: the alt-right wants a white state without Jews, the alt-left wants a world without a Jewish state.
"If a single yeshiva student is implicated in terrorist activities, the yeshiva must be closed" said Mr. Yoffie. Does he also propose closing mosques whose members commit terrorism? Somehow I doubt it
Overturning government decisions on the basis of its own radically expansive interpretation of human rights is not the only tool through which the court has usurped political power
Trumpian truth-telling about Iran, Syria & the Palestinians can improve the strategic environment, gut Palestinian strategy of delegitimizing Israel, and improve the tone of American foreign policy
A senior journalist told me they refrain from using the term “terrorism” because it can mean “lots of things to lots of people.” I don’t understand how “terrorism” can mean that many different things
The Obama administration's discrimination against political viewpoints the Democrats disapprove of is a clear, even astonishing, violation of the First Amendment
By Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper
Mr. Trump, you have said you want to apply your unique negotiations skills to the Israel-Palestinian dispute. Suggestion number one: Move the United States embassy to Jerusalem where it belongs
By Isi Leibler
Far left-Liberals are free to engage in political campaigns but leaders of mainstream Jewish organizations must cease exploiting their positions by using anti-Semitism to promote their partisan agenda
By Abed AlMaala
The Jordanian Opposition Coalition (JOC) received intelligence that the Jordanian intelligence desk in cooperation with the PA's Pres. Abbas were plotting “An unprecedented mother of all Intifadas”
This demonstration by one pillar of French society, the police, was the biggest that ever happened in modern France. Yet, virtually no one in France's mainstream media covered the event.
Given Ellison’s troubling voting record on Israel and disturbing past affiliations, his ascension to DNC chair could spell disaster for the Dem. Party and the bipartisan nature of US-Israel relations
At least 141 US citizens have been murdered by Palestinian terrorists since the 1960s. Yet the US has never asked the PA to extradite even a single terrorists for prosecution.
Ellison represents the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party, just when the party -- if it is to win again -- must move to the center
Kerry let loose with a harangue putting the blame for the lack of Mid East peace on Israel and gave the PA and its undemocratic ruler, Mahmoud Abbas, a pass for their refusal to negotiate seriously
By Bassam Tawil
The EU and others pay for constructing illegal Palestinian settlements while demanding Israel halt building new homes for Jewish families in Jerusalem neighborhoods or existing West Bank settlements
By Yoni Berg
Dear Mr Kerry, saying that the majority of violence is where the settlements are is like saying most traffic accidents take place on roads. Your logic is classic victim-blaming.
By David Mark
A year has passed since the Litman's were murdered, and in that year I have begun to understand in a different way what our sages meant when a tzaddik is alive even in their death.
We are losing the battle of social media that allows today's youth to be educated with lies and deception. Organizations must highlight Israel’s peace efforts and the resistance of the Palestinians
The 3 concepts of learning to accept help, setting up cues for positive habits, and always seeing the good have enabled my friend’s mother to succeed in childrearing and in her post-childrearing life
"Lawfare" at its finest: The Palestinian Authority intends to sue the British government because of the Balfour Declaration
Cynicism is insidious; sly; cunning. hard to silence, It is so obviously wrong on all levels- the personal, the communal, the religious, paralyzing even the most logical and appropriate response
By Doron Shafir
We couldn’t sleep that night, thinking of all emergency personnel still involved in the battle for our beautiful city of Haifa, of the fire that refused to be put out, of our neighbors who all
If Obama chooses to use his post-presidency to pursue his vendetta against Netanyahu and to push for pressure on Israel, he could be almost as much a problem for Israel out of office as he was in it
Many Clinton voters have ceased communicating with friends, and even family members, who voted for Trump. It is so common that The NY Times published a front-page article on the subject
The outrage with the media is because many believe false news stories attacking Clinton cost her the election. Israel has long been the victim of fake news stories. Where has all this outrage been?
By Zionist Organization of America
If leading friends of Israel and Israeli leaders all say that Mr. Bannon is not anti-Semitic, why are the Conservative movement and Hadassah committed to spreading lies about him?
Obama is not a conventional politician. He’s an organizer and a campaigner at the vanguard of a radical movement that seeks to control traditional institutions, but doesn’t feel bound by them.
Radical activists are threatening to burn down the edifice of Israel-Diaspora relations.
Reuters' bureau chief in Israel tweeted a sensationalist Palestinian claim that the fires were set by Jewish settlers trying "to destroy as much as possible of the Palestinian agricultural land."
By Paul Miller
Bannon is the target of a political ideology in desperation mode, which has been excusing antisemitism for over a decade and euphemistically referring to the murder of Jews in Israel as “resistance.”
Between 1910 to 1941 there were 628 professional Jewish boxers in the United States. Many of them, including the greatest, Barney Ross, were raised in Orthodox homes
By Ben Cohen
Many of the world's illiberal and authoritarian states will become our friends and trading partners and our newfound tolerance of their norms will eventually come into conflict with preserving our own
For some reason, the US government's special envoy for combating Anti-Semitism does not seem to exhibit a sense of urgency in his response to Palestinian desecrations of Jewish holy sites.
How did Trump win? Because I and many like me never felt comfortable admitting publicly we were voting for Trump. At work and play Democrats assumed everyone around them was in lockstep agreement.
The NY Times dismissed the canard that Trump or Clinton were recruiting tools for ISIS yet editorialized that Israeli settlers are at the heart of the reason people join the terror group.
Ellison trafficked with incredibly virulent, open anti-Semites supporting and defending them until it became politically inconvenient, then lied about it, once in office he started targeting Israel
In this age of J-Date, bar scenes, parties it seems that finding a mate is near impossible. But do we really believe it is any more or less difficult now than in the past?
When you sit shiva over the election of a president, you’ve made a religion of politics.
By Bruce Abramson and Jeff Ballabon
Observant Jews have an option: Remain irrelevant or become leaders of the many millions of American Faith & Values voters who value religious freedom and the security of the Jewish state
Modi likened the Indian Army’s recent strikes against terrorism as “no less than the Israel Army.” He must therefore give India's defense forces the autonomy Israeli leadership gives to its own forces
I will not join the chorus of condemnation that employs this radioactive term against Bannon without compelling evidence.
I see people like Lot all the time, young and not so young, raised in Williamsburg, Boro Park, and other Abrahamic communities who are seduced willingly and not-so-willingly by contemporary Sodoms
By Ted Roberts
Thanksgiving. Thanks Giving. Sammy, from Lodz, knew about that. As an observant Jew, did he not give thanks before and after every meal?
Regardless of Trump’s policies towards Israel, the prime responsibility of Israeli leaders is to protect Israel's citizens. We must ask: Will their policies bring Israel greater or lesser security?
Liberals seem to be liberal only to their own. We can only move forward if we work together with understanding and sensitivity – not just to our own biases but to the needs of others.
Israel should make it clear, both as a threat and as a policy principle to be put into action, that unilateral action (against Israel) will beget unilateral Israeli action in response.
Rather than spreading fear and false propaganda about Trump, the EU should hope he will provide the strength so desperately needed today, and working out how best it can support rather than attack him
Even if Trump had lost by a narrow margin, the fact that he got nearly 60 million votes would still be significant in telling us about the current mindset of the American people.
We must reinvigorate Zionism, and fight and defend our Birthright, otherwise when the wheels come off the cart for American Jews one day, many of us will wake up to an ugly reality
More than the election’s vote was a victory for Donald J. Trump, it was a searing defeat for Barack Hussein Obama and his 8 years in office
By Soeren Kern
America has just liberated itself from political correctness. The American people expressed their desire to remain a free and democratic people. Now it is time for Europe. We can and will do the same!
By Susan B. Tuchman and Morton A. Klein
The entire community including public officials should be calling on the Coop to stop indulging a group of Israel-bashers who are obsessed with singling out and discriminating against Israel.
I am Jewish, and I know you hate me for that reason. Can we talk about this in a rational way?
Before anyone concludes only "right-wingers" oppose the Paris conference, it's worth recalling that one of the most outspoken critics of the conference idea was the hero of the "Left," Yitzhak Rabin.
The heart of the reason why the two-state solution has repeatedly failed: Not only have the Palestinians never suffered any consequences for intransigence, but they have actually been rewarded for it
Because the Knesset is elected by the free market it is the only entity in Israel that can be called public. All the rest, with no exceptions, are anything but faithful representation of the public
Consider the situation in America compared to the situation in Israel on almost any foreign or domestic issue, and you’re forced to admit that, heck, Israel is in a better place
September 25, 2026 
