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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 Guest Author
Our Radio guy Yishai Fleisher is joined by Walid Shantur, an Arab American hailing from a village near Ramallah whom Yishai had met in Ithaca, NY.
By dvora
An armed Palestinian domain is merely a stepping-stone to the eventual escalation of conflict.
By David Bedein
Above Solomon’s Stables - where years ago a huge mosque was built underground, it is possible to build a synagogue.
By J. E. Dyer
The Gitmo Five were released without a prisoner exchange.
By Soeren Kern
"If we deal with him one time, with violence, and show him what time it is, he will never disrespect our religion again ... For Muslims, you'd say it's good, but for non-Muslims, it's very, very bad."
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
By Jeremy Rosen
But surely, you will say, Judaism requires one to respect one’s religious leaders. In theory this is so.
By Barry Rubin
Did President Obama have to lie in a UN speech?
By David Wilder
The first time was many years ago. I had just concluded explanations about Yeshivat Knesset Yisrael” which arrived in Hebron from Slobodka, in Lithuania in 1924. The Hebron Heritage Museum at Beit Hadassah features an exhibit about this illustrious Torah-learning academy, nicknamed the ‘Hebron Yeshiva,’ which includes a ‘class picture’ from 1928. As I finished […]
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.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah threatens the US-led "peace talks," saying he will back “Palestine resistance” to ensure that all of the Land of Israel will not remain in Jewish hands.
By dvora
From 1993 on, the Israeli government's fundamental mistake in the war against terror was to capitulate to the terrorists’ political demands.
By dvora
Among the most important policies which must be adopted in the face of terrorism is the refusal to release convicted terrorists from prisons.
By Guest Author
After helping themselves to large salaries and allowing fraud to persist under their noses for over a decade, the Claims Conference is too broke to serve the survivors.
By Barry Rubin
Obama, a man who has spent a few hours in Israel and has no empathy with it, dares to say that he knows better what that country needs than does Prime Minister Netanyahu.
In Lebanon there is a rare opportunity to cut off a significant part of one of the most important arms of the Iranian octopus, which comprises Syria and Hezbollah.
Since a majority of Palestinians cannot envision mutual recognition even after all issues are resolved and they get a state, they see it as merely a pause before the conflict would begin anew.
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.
The Supreme Court has yet to deliver a final word on whether American citizens born in Jerusalem can have their passports list “Israel” as their place of birth if they so choose. Last week, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in the case of Benjamin Zivotofsky, invalidated a federal law authorizing such recordation on the grounds that the president has exclusive power to conduct the foreign affairs of the United States.
The hoopla surrounding the meeting in Washington this week of Israeli and Palestinian representatives appears to be much about little.
History shows that people who become inconvenient to the Clintons, even close friends like Webb Hubbell, do not have happy endings.
By Daniel Pipes
The military has grown so large because of preferential tax treatment, subsidized labor, an extra-legal status, and old-boy networks.
By Boaz Bismuth
Dr. Oz, who is visiting Israel this week with his wife, Lisa, and their four children, is not just any physician. A cardiac surgeon by training, he is the most watched physician in the United States. Millions of Americans view his television program. “The Dr. Oz Show” is broadcast to more than a hundred countries, including Israel’s Health Channel. His books, which have been translated into dozens of languages, including Hebrew, are runaway bestsellers.
At the mikveh they were discussing Egypt. So many things seem to be unraveling. It’s not just Egypt but the entire Middle East. No, it’s not just the Middle East; it’s the entire world.
By Guest Author
Rouhani's campaign symbol was a giant golden key that symbolized his ability to open locked doors, but now he may find it difficult to deliver on his promise.
By Barry Rubin
Why would the PA keep any post-treaty commitments? We know that Hamas will not.
By J. E. Dyer
If we should have learned anything since January 2011, it’s that Middle Eastern unrest is growing because of a good half a dozen really important things other than “Israel.”
By David Wilder
Everything is up for grabs. Beginning with Hebron, Beit El, and Elon Moreh, onwards to Jerusalem and finally, Tel Aviv, Beer Sheva and Haifa.
By Barry Rubin
Why is Israel releasing the worst terrorists for no gain, not even good publicity?
Peace must start from the ground up, not with grand slogans coming from pontificating politicians.
As thousands of radical jihadis have moved into Syria and the Sinai, Israel is perfecting its ability to neutralize these targets.
By Jeremy Rosen
The myth about the idyllic Jewish life if the ghettos of the East is dishonest, manipulative, and a betrayal of the memory of those who lived through it.
By Barry Rubin
America can never be helping the Brotherhood because America is evil and satanic.
By CAMERA
First published on CAMERA Palestinian officials and the public have long pressed for the release of Palestinian prisoners, who are revered as heroes in government-controlled Palestinian media. Over the last several decades, Israel has released thousands of such prisoners, often times as goodwill gestures. This spring, President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly insisted in talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on the release of all Palestinian prisoners, […]
It took the Europeans more than thirty years to understand that the Hizb'Allah organization, founded in 1982, is a terror organization. Good Morning, Europe!
By Ben Cohen
Unfortunately, Israel, a stable democracy and Western ally, can be relied upon to be cooperative.
His dream was to reach out to every Jew, even the most secular.
The nation of Israel is losing its grip on the Temple Mount.
Why would our tradition fill our fun-filled summers with such restricting limitations?
Blunt and forthright, he declared that “Due to our common roots, a Christian cannot be anti-Semitic!”
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 Jason Maoz
It’s certainly been a while, hasn’t it? And yet it seems like the conversation was never really interrupted, as I’ve enjoyed, in the three and a half months since this column last appeared, many an interesting exchange, via e-mail and phone, with some very intelligent readers.
The alleged breakthrough orchestrated by Secretary of State Kerry last week between Israel and the Palestinians was the culmination of a series of desperate attempts to project the appearance of progress toward a resumption of real negotiations when, given the current circumstances, none are likely to occur.
President Obama is playing a cynical and dangerous game with his comments in the wake of George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The problem is not that Mr. Obama may feel that by acquitting Mr. Zimmerman the jury was saying race played no role. That is his prerogative. But it is a problem when the president, in introducing a national dialogue on race relations at this time, indelibly links Trayvon Martin’s death with race and thereby inserts himself in the middle of a concerted effort by some, who will simply not accept the jury’s verdict, to have Mr. Zimmerman indicted on federal anti-hate laws.
Writing about Israeli politics can sometimes be a depressing endeavor, but P. David Hornik has been doing it consistently for over a decade for such media outlets as FrontPage Magazine, Pajamas Media, American Spectator, and The Jewish Press.
Eighty years ago, in January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Barely a month later Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated president of the United States. For the next twelve years, until their deaths eighteen days apart in April 1945, they personified the horrors of dictatorship and the blessings of democracy.
This latest decision tells us nothing about Israel or the West Bank. But it tells us what we need to know about the EU.
By Barry Rubin
Does anyone notice that the Palestinians keep demanding more preconditions, Israeli concessions but never come to the table?
By Guest Author
Why aren't you boycotting Chinese entities operating in occupied Tibet?
By now it’s known that I have strongly supported Samantha’s nomination.
There is also widespread belief that Patterson's "meddling" in Egypt's affairs is not limited to General Sisi and the Egyptian media.
By J. E. Dyer
Is this the face of Christianity, as Christian Century would like to see it displayed? For my part, I repudiate it without hesitation.
By Barry Rubin
The PA will keep doing stalling tactics and come up with new preconditions that it hopes Israel will not meet.
By Jeremy Rosen
I don’t expect thinking Muslims to object to a reasoned critique of Islam.
In 1992 the Dallas Cowboys won Super Bowl XXVII. Among the members of the team was a young Jewish man named Alan Veingrad. Alan, now Shlomo, became frum several years later and found a much more significant calling: as an in-demand speaker he captivates Jewish and non-Jewish audiences around the world with lessons from his football days and from his teshuva journey.
In a time when service to one’s community seems to be a forgotten ideal, it is our pleasure to continue sharing with you the stories of those men and women who were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
The State Department and the White House fear Islamic terror more than anything else.
By Barry Rubin
This story brought home to me that to do one’s task rightly, to bear witness honestly, and to face the consequences without flinching should be the hallmarks of my field.
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 Rabbis Yitzchok Adlerstein and Abraham Cooper
The Anglicans are urging their faithful to “educate the church about the impact of illegal settlements” on the West Bank.
The words over the yeshiva's main doors used to be in English.
Kerry’s working with actors who have acted in this movie before, and the script is built around the same elements. But the theater is new.
Dermer is seen by the left as the worst of all possible creatures: a “right-wing neocon with close ties to the Bush family.”
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.
In the past we have explored how President Obama’s penchant for unilateral executive actions has resulted in encroachments on the powers of Congress and the courts. This despite the constitutional blueprint for a federal government limited by a system of checks and balances through the Constitution’s separation of powers among the executive, legislative and judicial branches.
We are troubled by the reactions of some to the “Not Guilty” verdict in the Zimmerman/Martin case. The unanimous conclusion by the jury notwithstanding, there is a hue and cry that racism was behind the shooting and an injustice was done simply because Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted.
Signs of the impending trouble awaiting King Abdullah emerged in the past few days.
A thousand years ago, the great Rabbi Sa’adia Gaon taught that our Torah is reasonable and that the human intellect, by itself, can discover the great truths taught in Scripture. Given enough time and brilliance, the human mind can, unaided, arrive at the precepts and concepts revealed by God at Sinai.
By Meir Indor
Instead of giving new young couples some time in public housing until they’re ready to move forward, they want to give away the apartments to people who have been reaping the benefits for years.
The central quality of leadership is not eloquence but moral courage, a preparedness to be hated in the pursuit what’s right.
By Barry Rubin
The military-civilian governors of Egypt are the same people who have always run the country. They have not done a great job.
By J. E. Dyer
Western culture as a whole lost the habit of defining authority for social purposes, and training its children to both respect and administer it.
By Soeren Kern
Politically correct Britons are forced to confront the previously taboo subject of endemic sexual abuse of children by predatory Muslim pedophile gangs.
By Jeremy Rosen
The super hero myth is dangerous because it is an excuse for inaction and fantasy.
The target of the car bomb attack was the Center for Islamist Cooperation, the operational center for many of Hezbollah's offshoot organizations.
By Ben Cohen
Mandela once wrote that Jews, in his experience, were far more sensitive about race because of their own history.
It is already illegal to conduct bias-based profiling, and there is no need for legislation that will make the job of police officers that much harder
By Isaac Kohn
The thug knew exactly what you are and he went after you anyway, Mr. Anteby.
By Alan Krinsky
Was the humble Rabbi Zechariah ben Avkulos the real hero of the destruction story?
By Barry Rubin
You can no longer argue that solving the Arab-Israeli or Israel-Palestinian conflict will fix the region.
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.
Almost every person viewed Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av in a different light from the minor fasts.
By Boaz Haetzni
An appeal to keep the satirical show Latma running.
By Barry Rubin
Suddenly, as the still-alive Confederates reached the Union line, we charged forward to go into action.
By Irwin Cohen
"I had to grow a tough little hide as everybody was fair game to be razzed and needled."
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?
In the beginning, President Obama really thought he could change the world. And he had specific plans to do so, both here and abroad.
It’s time for Secretary of State John Kerry to take stock of his obsessive and peripatetic efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. It is an obvious fool’s errand that demeans our diplomatic image around the world.
November 13, 2026 
