Wish I'd said that
“When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.” Abba Eban, Former Israeli ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations
Thousands of US troops land in Israel. Aircraft carrier coming soon
DEBKAfile — Thousands of US troops began descending on Israel this week. Senior US military sources told DEBKAfile Friday, Jan. 6 that many would be staying up to the end of the year as part of the US-IDF deployment in readiness for a military engagement with Iran and its possible escalation into a regional conflict. They will…
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US support: Is Israel losing the battle?
BY STEVE RUBIN, YNET— The de-legitimization of Israel is being perpetuated by the Jewish state’s lack of a concrete plan to counter a new generation of anti-Israeli attitudes amongst both the American Jewish community and on college campuses. With regards to college campuses, this is not an issue of bigoted anti-Semitism; rather, it is a…
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The U.S. and Biblical Israel
By BARBARA LERNER, NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — By now, most Americans know that the “two-state solution” is no solution to the war that supremacist Muslims have been waging against the state of Israel since its rebirth in 1948. Most Americans in public life know it too, but in public, nearly all of them pay lip…
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The land-for-peace hoax
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPost — The rise of the forces of jihadist Islam in Egypt places the US and other Western powers in an uncomfortable position. The US is the guarantor of Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. That treaty is based on the proposition of land for peace. Israel gave Egypt the Sinai in 1982…
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Saudis, Gulf states on war alert for early US-Iran clash
BY DEBKAFILE— The armies of Saudi Arabia and fellow Gulf Cooperation Council states stood ready Thursday Jan. 5, for Washington to stand up to Iranian threats and send an aircraft carrier or several warships through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf. Riyadh has been leaning hard on the Obama administration not to let…
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Intro to the Middle East
BY YORAM ETTINGER, ISRAEL HAYOM— In the pursuit of peace, alliances and interests, Western policy-makers have tended to sacrifice the perplexing realities of the Middle East on the altar of oversimplification and wishful-thinking. Yet their attempts to implement unsubstantiated policies often have served to inflame rather than extinguish regional fires. Lebanese-born professor Fouad Ajami, the…
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Panetta’s negative attitude toward Israel
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…
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Panetta's negative attitude toward Israel
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…
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ADL: Fighting Yesterday’s Battles
By CHARLES JACOBS, Boston Jewish Advocate — The ADL is now caught flatfooted by its own paralysis. Republicans are all over national TV, arguing passionately over which (and whose) approaches – given the sorry state of American society – might best set things right. They know Democrats will use the best barbs they throw at…
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Moshe Dayan’s colossal blunder
By GIULIO MEOTTI, YNET — The World should not allow Arab effort to deny Jewish connection to Jerusalem. It’s the site where humanity received the gift of one God. It’s where God’s “shechina”, or presence, dwelt. Even the secular imagination, Jewish or not, has been shaped by the “Holy of Holies,” the Temple Mount in…
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Video: aerial view of Israel's security dilemma
Have you ever used Google Earth to take a look at Israel and the West Bank? Israel and its neighbors are often very close together, and understanding that is important to making peace. Come along with us as we examine this tenacious problem from a birds eye view.
Mythomaniacs and the Arab-Israel Conflict
BY RICHARD BOOKER— An excited crowd of 5,000 Christian Zionists attending the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem leaped to their feet with thunderous applause when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked them to join Israel in their historic struggle to present the true story of Israel and the Arab world. Israel has certainly been losing the…
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Scripture reading for January 7, 2012
Torah: Genesis 47:28 – 50:26 “Vayechi” ( He lived …) Haftorah: I Kings 2:1 – 12 New Testament: Hebrews 11:21-22; I Peter 1:3 – 9 Gospel: John 21:15 – 25 “Leachar” (Afterward …)
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Constraining Iran in the Straight
BY ILAN BERMAN, INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE— The past two weeks have seen a dramatic escalation in Iran’s war of words with the West. Last Wednesday, Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi told Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, that new economic pressure currently being contemplated by the West would come at a steep cost. According to Rahimi,…
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Why US won't be center stage in new Israeli-Arab talks
BY HOWARD LAFRANCHI, CSMONITOR The United States won’t take its usual center-stage position when Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meet today for their first direct talks in more than a year. The talks, set for Amman, Jordan, are designed to explore the potential for a return to formal direct peace negotiations, which collapsed in October 2010.…
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Israel, Palestinian envoys to hold talks in Jordan on Tuesday
BY REUTERS— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s personal emissary Yitzhak Molcho and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat will meet in Amman on Tuesday in a bid to restart stalled Middle East peace negotiations. The meeting will be hosted by Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh. Judeh and representatives of the Middle East Quartet – the United States,…
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