BY EARL COX, JPOST— United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta recently returned from the Middle East with a warning directed at Israel. “It’s pretty clear,” he said, “at this dramatic time in the Middle East, when there have been so many changes, that it is not a good situation for Israel to become so…
BY RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY— As expected, the Israeli-Arab conflict has been a major foreign policy campaign topic in the run-up to the 2012 US presidential election. And of the many Republican candidates vying for the chance to challenge President Barack Obama at the polls, Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) is widely viewed as by far…
By TAWFIK HAMID, JPOST— Palestinian officials reacted furiously to Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s assertion that they are an “invented” people. A senior Arab League official immediately condemned Gingrich’s claim that Palestinians are “invented,” calling the claim racist and a cheap stunt to get votes. Israeli Cabinet minister Uzi Landau said Gingrich was right. He…
BY DEBKAFILE— US President Barack Obama’s half-hour tête-a- tête with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Washington Friday, Dec. 16, was vitally concerned with the coming steps in the Syrian showdown and the latest developments in the controversy over Iran’s nuclear weapons program, debkafile’s Washington and intelligence sources report. Their conference was urgent because key…
BY RON JAGER– ARUTZ 7— “Uncle” Tom Friedman has done it again in the New York Times; he has proven that you can be a useful idiot and a Jewish anti-Semite all in one. Evidently, the means justify the ends, Friedman, who has always used his Jewish identity to infer that he is “one of…
By RYAN JONES, ISRAEL TODAY — One of the candidates who currently has a very real chance at becoming the next president of the United States could fundamentally alter Middle East peace-making were he to stick to his campaign platform and rhetoric after taking office. In an interview with The Jewish Channel on Friday, former…
By CAL THOMAS, TOWNHALL.COM– In a season in which there is very little “peace on Earth” and even less “good will towards men,” it is a particularly tough time for Jews, who may be finding it more and more difficult to tell who their real friends are. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta fired an unusually harsh…
BY DAVID HORNIK, FRONTPAGEMAG— Worried about losing some of the Jewish vote for 2012, President Obama has been sweet-talking American Jews lately and making some staunchly pro-Israel statements. In September he told the UN General Assembly: Let us be honest with ourselves: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel’s…
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— With vote tallies in for Egypt’s first round of parliamentary elections in it is abundantly clear that Egypt is on the fast track to becoming a totalitarian Islamic state. The first round of voting took place in Egypt’s most liberal, cosmopolitan cities. And still the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists received…
BY JENNIFER RUBIN, WASHINGTON POST— Just when you think that the Obama administration hasn’t annoyed the American Jewish community quite enough or publicly insulted our democratic ally Israel sufficiently, along comes an administration figure willing to stick his finger in the eye of the Jewish state. On Friday, that task fell to Defense Secretary Leon…