By JNi.Media
While the PM and his ministers were negotiating the peaceful evacuation of Amona in recent weeks, Netanyahu promised the residents that the state would build them a new community wherever they wish.
By JNi.Media
There was absolutely no new policy idea in the Trump speech Monday night, but there was an implied promise to encourage all levels of law enforcement to be less restrained in pursuing their targets.
By JNi.Media
There is a dispute between the professional echelon in the defense ministry and Prime Minister Netanyahu over the American proposal.
Defense Secretary Carter said the U.S. would engage in "director action on the ground" against the Islamic State.
Netanyahu: Were it not for Israel's actions, Iran would have already armed itself with nuclear weapons.
By Daniel Pipes
Extra thoughts that could not make the main text of "When AIPAC Went AWOL."
By Greg Lauren
The best thing we can do is educate the next generation on what the source of our light in the world is.
By Daniel Pipes
You expressed having had "genuine concerns" about Hagel prior to your White House meeting with him; now is the moment for you to follow the dictates of your conscience.
The Emergency Committee for Israel released a new web ad highlighting Chuch Hagel's confused response about U.S. policy on Iran.
What are brave United States lawmakers to make of AIPAC’s surrender?
By Barry Rubin
Hagel's brain is the mass market version of Kerry's and Kerry's is the collector's edition of Obama.
If Schumer buys Hagel's transformation so will a majority of senators.
By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel
President Obama spent his first term pushing from power longstanding Arab allies in Egypt and Tunisia, seeking to engage the now blood-soaked Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, pulling his punches against Iran’s nuclear program, and putting “daylight” between his administration and Israel.
Why would the Senator insist on the Biblical teachings regarding homosexuality but not those of protecting Israel?
While it is the right of every American to lobby congress for their legitimate needs, I think our case has already been well made.
The burden is now on Senator Hagel to persuade the Senate, the American people, and the leaders of Iran that he is fully supportive of the President's commitment to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
By Barry Rubin
Smart people can make bad judgments; regular people with common sense often make bad judgments less often. But stupid, arrogant people with terrible ideas are a disaster.
I fear that if Israel ever faces existential danger such as that threatened by Iran, Hagel might just say that he is not the Defense Minster of Israel.
This is one of those times that I wish the anti-Semites were right, and that there was actually a semi-covert, powerful and well-funded Jewish lobby forcing the US to do its bidding.
The best most pro-Israel leaders were willing to do was downplay the policy-making role of the secretary of defense.
How many times do we have to hear statements like 'the Jews have too much Power' before we realize that the people saying it are anti- Semites?!
By J. E. Dyer
Chuck Hagel writes his own narrative, in which threats aren’t really threats and policies that actually work are just horrible.