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By Sara Lehmann
Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a 2008 Republican presidential candidate, completed a three-day tour of some of Israel's holiest and most contentious sites last week with leaders of Ateret Cohanim.
By JNi.Media
Bills introduced in Virginia and Tennessee legislatures recently and in Congress in December.
The 'One State vs. Two State' solution.
Trump may be telling the Palestinians that if they want a state they have to show up at the negotiating table and bargain for it. No one is going to hand it to them on a silver platter
For more than a century, the US State Department has been an opponent, not an ally of Israel and Zionism.
By Guy Millière
France today is among the main enemies of Israel -- maybe its main enemy -- in the Western world. France's disregard of threats faced by Israel is more than simple willful blindness. It is complicity.
Is the State of Israel, Jewish or not? And what is a Jew?
By J. E. Dyer
"People are not quitting and running away in disgust. This is the White House cleaning house.”
By JNi.Media
Congress had been looking at the PA's unilateral attempts at statehood, corruption, incitement of violence, and paying salaries terrorists in jail, which is why Congress put a hold on the payment.
Contrary to the State Department worldview, Arab policy-makers never considered the Palestinian issue a top priority, nor a core-cause of regional turbulence, nor the axis of the Arab-Israeli conflict
Like the old Monty Python bit, the two-state solution is a 'dead parrot.' The Press 'shopkeepers' keep trying to sell us its stiff body insisting the peace process is just pining for the Oslo accords.
Do you think the so called Palestinians deserve a state? Which terrorist attack was it that finally convinced you?
By David Bedein
The highest policy official overseeing PA and UNRWA matters looked me straight in the eye and said PA school books used by UNRWA advance peace and reconciliation. Clearly, he never read the books.
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.
By JNi.Media
A local official believes most of the missing money is being kept in the Agriculture Ministry's coffers.
By JNi.Media
Netanyahu's office issued a written directive at 4 PM Sunday asking cabinet ministers not to make contact with the president-elect or his staff.
By Marc Gronich
We have to be very clear-headed and cautious about what is said because what is said by the U.S. president is paid minute attention to by the rest of the world.
By JNi.Media
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted that "we must adjust to the fact that American foreign policy will get less predictable in the near future."
By JNi.Media
The Netanyahu cabinet has been extra careful not to provoke the ire of the retiring emperor on the eve of that portion of his term when he no longer needs to worry about the Jewish vote.
By JNi.Media
The two-state solution does not stand a chance unless the leaders of both sides "are willing and able to make decisions" — and it’s highly unlikely that whomever is chosen to succeed Abbas would be able to make them.
UNESCO reminds us once again – as if we needed reminding – that the UN is hugely populated with four types of nations: the brainless scare-crow, the heartless tin-man, the cowardly lion and Dorothy.
By JNi.Media
Like the bulk of the Democratic party, Biden supports a two-state solution.
Shimon Peres was brought to Jerusalem ahead of his funeral.
By JNi.Media
The SPD is expected to form a new regional coalition government with the Left and the Greens, who suffered a 2.5% drop to 15.1%.
By Batya Medad
There's nothing more dangerous for the State of Israel than dependence on a foreign country-The more weapons Israel gets from America, the more control the POTUS has on the State of Israel.
By Jeff Dunetz
New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman does not believe that justice is blind. Rather, it seems he believes justice is his tool to score "Progressive" political points.
Oh yes, there IS Illegal building in Judea and Samaria, but you will not believe by whom!
By JNi.Media
On Friday, DOS Press Director Elizabeth Trudeau rebutted Netanyahu's accusation, although a careful reading of her attack on the PM reveals she didn't really answer his main argument.
By David Bedein
10 perverse principles brought to you by the Palestinians
By Marc Gronich
I can tell you our price point is probably lower than our competitors at the New York State Fair. We want to make it where everyone can try the food….
The candidates we have endorsed are capable, bright, personable, and enthusiastic, and have shown they work well with the Jewish community and all the many other ethnic and religious communities that comprise or will comprise their districts.
For years, Israeli leaders have accused the PA and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, of inciting violence and anti-Semitism. Last year amid increasing terror attacks on Israelis, Abbas called for Jerusalem's holy sites to be cleansed of Jews.
By JNi.Media
The report on eradicating racism against Israelis of Ethiopian origin is 170 pages long and includes 52 recommendations intended to help correct institutionalized and societal racism.
By JNi.Media
"Reform Jews in the US don’t have a single mikvah. All of a sudden they need a mikvah over here?"
By JNi.Media
Meanwile, President Erdogan has announced that the death penalty could be restored in Turkey following the failed military coup, as part of his efforts to enhance democratic values.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jewish and Christian pro-Israel leaders worked with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's team to bring revisions in the GOP party platform's language, strengthening it on Israel
By JNi.Media
Minister Ze'ev Elkin (Likud) said that the State Dept. funding of the V15 campaign proves once again how timely and vital the new NGO transparency legislation has been.
By JNi.Media
"It's time to expose the truth behind this shocking episode, an episode that is a black stain on the history of the State of Israel."
Question: "So securing – adding security to settlements is the same as settlement activity?"
By JNi.Media
The re-mapping effort of those 62 thousand hectares constitutes a significant increase in the rate of this work, compared with only 20 thousand hectares re-mapped in 2014 and 13 thousand in 2013.
By JNi.Media
Defense Minister Ya'alon was in the habit, during security cabinet meetings, of forcing officers to remain silent if their views did not match his own.
Bill Clinton’s experience with the Palestinians should be a cautionary tale to the next President.
A Palestinian state has never existed during any period in human history. Let’s change that.
By JNi.Media
The arresting officer declared: "On the Temple Mount I decide what's prayer."
By Fred Maroun
Arabs exploit the Jews' Achilles heel – a highly developed culture, which respects and values life, and supports human rights.
By JNi.Media
We redacted and edited the exchange to make it a tad more entertaining. But one can smell the danger hidden in the spokesman's evasions.
By Atara Beck
Israeli politicians have interfered to prevent the Jerusalem Patriarchate from firing Nadaf and destroying his livelihood.
The Fatah-Hamas divide in itself should have killed the idea of a two-state for two peoples’ paradigm.
This past month several dozens of jihad organizations operating in Syria came to the conclusion that the disagreements among them harm their fighting cause and strengthen Asad.
By David Bedein
Netanyahu should formulate an interim solution to the "West Bank."
Easily misrepresented or abused, international law can generally be manipulated to serve virtually any preferred geo-political strategy.
Now more than ever it is apparent – incontestable, in fact – that the Arab/Islamic world has long been preparing to destroy itself.
By Ben Cohen
Sarcasm aside, this is anti-Semitism of the ugliest, most primitive kind.
By Barry Rubin
Why have those who govern Syria followed such a pattern for more than six decades under almost a dozen different regimes?
Eventually Prime Minister Rabin, who had offered up so many Israelis as sacrifices of peace, was privileged to himself became a sacrifice of peace.
The lobbyist tried to convince me that this is pragmatic politics, that this is the argument around which we can now achieve a consensus.
By Chabad.org
The rabbi, in his early 30s, hails from Miami, Fla., and Raizy, in her late 20s, grew up in Israel. What’s it like to live in the least populated state in the nation?
Does President Obama know that his Administration is launching an all out effort to kill or capture people in the name of Islam?
"We believe that every person in Israel must have their fundamental rights met..." Not applicable to terror victims and their families' fundamental right to justice.
By Danny Danon
Like Erekat, Indyk has been a major player in the peace industry since the early 1990s, and he also can point to zero achievements in bringing peace and prosperity to our region.
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
The JVP claims to be a Jewish movement that values peace but instead promotes the BDS Movement, supports the "Palestinian right of return," and works to undermine true peace and security for Israel.
By Jeremy Rosen
But surely, you will say, Judaism requires one to respect one’s religious leaders. In theory this is so.
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.
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.
By Barry Rubin
Living well, as the saying goes, is the best revenge, even if it comes at the cost of international criticism.
By JTA
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution proposed by Israel that establishes entrepreneurship as a critical development tool for countries around the world.
Looking ahead, there's more than a little reason to take a sober view of the future.
Now that the Palestinian Authority has been recognized as a non-member observer state at the United Nations, it will now use its new power to ask the Security Council to force Israel to abandon plans to build in the E-1 area near the Jewish city of Maale Adumim.
By Barry Rubin
Satire but Very Close to Actual Experience.
Only 42 years ago, King Abdullah's father slaughtered at least 10 thousand Palestinians.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce his nominees for secretaries of state and defense in the next two weeks, with former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel on the short list of potential choices to head the Pentagon, senior administration officials told Reuters on Tuesday. The Republican Jewish Coalition reminded readers that, in the past, Jewish […]
Amir Peretz, former Histadrut union chief and former Defense Minister, is now a former member of the Avoda (Labor) party. He is moving over to the Movement (HaTnuah) party of Tzipi Livni (former head of Kadima, and former Foreign Minister). Also moving over to Livni's party is former general Elazar Stern. Stern announced on the […]
By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel
The United Nations General Assembly’s vote to make “Palestine” a “non-member state” of the UN has done no less than legitimize the two Palestinian regimes that promote terrorism and Israel's destruction. How can the world claim to be fighting terrorism when it has just declared that two terrorist regimes should enjoy sovereignty?
By Ron Kampeas
WASHINGTON – Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who is widely seen as a leading candidate to replace Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has garnered plaudits from Jewish communal leaders for her work at the world body.
By Barry Rubin
We must understand how Clinton's mind and that of a large portion of the Western elite works.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu betrayed the Obama administration by announcing a new settlement expansion and the cutoff of tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority, JTA reported. Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff in his first term, delivered the rebuke over the weekend at the Saban Forum in Washington. Emanuel's […]
Egypt seems today like a rickety cart that strong, immense horses are pulling in different directions.
By JTA
American billionaire Ronald Lauder agreed to bail out the financially troubled Israeli television station Channel 10.
PM Netanyahu said today at a cabinet meeting that, "a Palestinian state will not be established until they recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people along with a decision to end the conflict. Israel will not let Judea and Samaria turn into a terror base where missiles will be launched at Israel." In […]
By Barry Rubin
The non-member 'state' status will sink the Palestinian leadership even deeper into an obsession with intransigence in practice and paper victories that mean nothing in the real world.
Israel has a simple option: Immediate withdrawal from the United Nations.
In a symbolic vote the "state" of Palestine was created today, but the vote has no legally binding status.
The entire concept of non-member observers has no bearing on international law.
By JTA
Lieberman's apparent endorsement of Rice on Tuesday is largely symbolic.
Israel's final decision concerning what to do about a nuclear Iran will depend on answers to certain core psychological questions. Is the Iranian adversary rational, valuing national survival more highly than any other preference, or combination of preferences? Or, on even a single occasion, is this enemy more apt to prove itself irrational, thereby choosing to value certain preferences more highly than the country's indispensable physical security?
Reports in recent days suggest that Republican opposition to the possible nomination of UN Ambassador Susan Rice as secretary of state seems to be softening. Critics such as Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are changing or at least modifying their tune regarding concern over Ms. Rice’s statements in the aftermath of the attack on U. S. diplomats in Benghazi.
By JTA
Americans for Peace Now called on President Obama to support the Palestinians’ bid to upgrade their status in the United Nations to non-member observer state. The stance by the left-wing group issued in a statement Tuesday places it at odds with the pro-Israel community. The statement by the group's president and CEO, Debra DeLee, was […]
Israel is losing the diplomatic edge.
"We expect continued firing of hundreds of rockets in the coming days."
If the UN accepts Palestine as a nonmember state, effectively recognizing its bid to become a state, Israel may cancel all or part of the Oslo accords according to reports, and may even go as far as working to oust Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas from his position.
Hamas called the meeting to try and avoid further casualties.
Chairman of the Knesset State Comptroller’s Committee MK Uri Ariel reacted to the deteriorating security situation in Southern Israel, saying: “Israel’s weakness in the face of the escalating terrorism against residents of Southern Israel must end. It’s about time to let the IDF win again, to stop allowing the fear from the International Community’s reaction […]
President Obama on Friday renewed America's 33-year-old state of emergency against Iran.
New York’s Republican party has little to celebrate Thursday, seemingly close to losing control of the state Senate in addition to losing the state for the presidential election.
By Adam Levick
The legal impunity Jamal Zahalka will continue to enjoy – the rights of citizenship, and special rights as an MK, afforded him by the very state whose existence he incites against – represents stubborn proof attesting to the continuing vitality of Israeli democracy.
In his op-ed in Ha'artez, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Israel disputes the Levy Report. He does not understand that we are Jews returning, not being transferred to Judea and Samaria.
By JTA
Delegates to the Jewish People Policy Institute conference proposed a new model for Jewish communal fundraising and stressed the importance of cooperation between Israel and Diaspora Jewish communities. At a conference session on how the global Jewish community spends its funds, former CBS executive and Fox News founder Mark Pearlman suggested that the community shift […]
By Adam Levick
Benjamin Pogrund, a former South African journalist, and anti-Apartheid activist, who made Aliyah in 1997 and founded Yakar’s Centre for Social Concern, published a piece at ‘Comment is Free’ on Oct. 25 titled ‘Israel has moved to the right, but is not an apartheid state.' Pogrund refuted the recent poll on Israeli views of Arabs, and the profound distortion of the poll results, which smeared Israel with the charge of apartheid, by Gideon Levy of Ha’aretz.
