By MITT ROMNEY, WALL STREET JOURNAL– Disturbing developments are sweeping across the greater Middle East. In Syria, tens of thousands of innocent people have been slaughtered. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has come to power, and the country’s peace treaty with Israel hangs in the balance. In Libya, our ambassador was murdered in a terrorist…
By ISI LEIBLER, ISRAEL HAYOM— The disproportionately high profile of American Jews in the U.S. presidential election contest and the efforts invested by both candidates portraying themselves as supportive of the Jewish state has assumed surrealistic levels. Overall, Israel’s standing in the U.S. today is at an all-time high. Yet, the Democratic convention spotlighted the…
By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— US presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently suggested that if he wins the current race for the White House, he will significantly alter the degree and manner of America’s involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Likening the situation to the ongoing tug-of-war between China and Taiwan, Romney told a room of…
By CHRISTOPHER COLLINS, EXAMINER— Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician appeared on Special Report with Bret Braier and spoke about the State Department’s response to the protests in Cairo. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comKrauthammer said, “It looks as though the administration thinks about what has just happened.” He agreed…
By JONATHAN TOBIN, COMMENTARY— President Obama may be enjoying a slight, if likely temporary, bounce in the polls this week. But one of the surveys showing him with a lead in a tight race over Mitt Romney also provides a breakdown of the data that confirms predictions that he is losing up to a quarter…
By JOSEPH KLEIN, FRONTPAGE— Despite some introductory bromides proclaiming the “unshakable commitment” of President Obama and the Democratic Party to Israel’s security, the 2012 Democratic National Platform, titled “Moving America Forward,” mirrors perfectly President Obama’s decision to turn his back on our closest ally in the Middle East. It represents a radical break with prior…
By DANIEL PIPES— “President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus.” That’s what Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, said in the high-profile speech accepting his party’s nomination last week, repeating a slang phrase for sacrificing a friend for selfish reasons. Romney had deployed this phrase before, for example in May 2011 and…
By VICTOR SHARPE, AMERICAN THINKER— For anyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear, and who is not terminally obtuse, the present incumbent of the Oval Office has deliberately helped engineer Islam’s latest and successful lust for world domination through sharia law and geopolitical contrivance. The Muslim cry of “first the Saturday people…
By JENNIFER LIPMAN, THE JC— The man picked to run for the White House alongside Republican hopeful Mitt Romney has stated that the US has “no better friend in the Middle East than the nation of Israel”. Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman named as Mr Romney’s running mate, is a committed Catholic and considered to…
