Bibi vs. the Children

BY DAVID RUBIN— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been broadly respected in America as a champion of the biblical heartland, but sadly, it’s time to take a second look. A bill has just been defeated in the Knesset, which would have retroactively legalized several of the younger Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria…

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Palestinians: Refugees forever?

BY ASAF ROMIROWSKY AND ALEXANDER JOFFE, HA’ARETZ— A couple of weeks ago the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously passed the Kirk Amendment as part of the State Department and Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill for 2013. The bill requires the State Department to specify to Congress, for the first time, what proportion of the five million…

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God Bless Canada!

BY SHIRA SORKO-RAM, MAOZ— Canada has long been considered a classical liberal democracy. In fact, according to Wikipedia, Canada is presently one of the more liberal countries in the Americas a nation with government-regulated free market, with an emphasis on social justice and social progressivism such as abortion issues and same-sex marriage. However, a quiet…

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Understanding the Iran talks

BY JAY BERGMAN, JPOST— As a professional historian, I normally do not place much stock in historical analogies. They usually obscure and confuse more than they clarify. But in the case of the recent P5 + 1 talks in Baghdad that will resume in Moscow later this month — when the five permanent members of…

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From Berlin to Jerusalem

BY KEN BLACKWELL, TOWNHALL— The Obama administration refuses, time and again, to say that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Victoria Nuland, speaking from the State Department, recently repeated over and over that the status of Jerusalem is subject to final status negotiations. Israel thus becomes the only country recognized by the U.S. that is…

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IAF strikes in Gaza after rocket attacks on Israel

BY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— IAF aircraft struck a weapons-manufacturing site and a terror tunnel in northern Gaza on Sunday night, according to an IDF statement. The statement noted that direct hits at the targets were identified. All Israeli planes returned safely to their base. The attack came after terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza fired a…

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Pat Leahy's anti-Israel extremism

BY BEN SHAPIRO, FRONTPAGEMAG— Last Thursday, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) targeted an amendment by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) that would force the State Department to determine how many actual Palestinian refugees – not their children, relatives, friends, or distant relations – are being served by US tax dollars. Leahy was upset because he knew, as…

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The Nazi Palestinolatry

BYGIULIO MEOTTI, INN — Future generations will wonder how an organization such as the PLO, one of the worst ideological criminals of the twentieth century along with Al Qaeda, Pol Pot, the SS and the Iranian ayatollahs, has been able, in spite of its proudly proclaimed anti-Semithic barbarism, to achiev world-wide acclaim and support. Take…

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B'tayavon: Corn Kugel

Ingredients 1 medium onion, chopped 1 tablespoon olive oil 3 ½ cups fresh or canned corn kernels 1 cup chicken broth 4 large eggs, beaten 2 tablespoons fresh parsley 4 tablespoons toasted bread crumbs (for Passover use matzah crumbs) salt and pepper to taste Directions 1) Preheat oven to 325. 2) In a medium skillet,…

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Corn kugel

Ingredients 1 medium onion, chopped 1 tablespoon olive oil 3 ½ cups fresh or canned corn kernels 1 cup chicken broth 4 large eggs, beaten 2 tablespoons fresh parsley 4 tablespoons toasted bread crumbs (for Passover use matzah crumbs) salt and pepper to taste Directions 1) Preheat oven to 325. 2) In a medium skillet,…

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The reign of the fantasists

BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak has done it again. Speaking Wednesday at the Institute for National Security Studies, Barak warned that if Israel can’t cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, it should consider surrendering Judea and Samaria in exchange for nothing. Even the diehard leftists in the media had a…

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The Egyptian Election: Why the Western Media Continues to Be “Surprised” by the Inevitable

BY KYLE SCHIDELER, EMET— The outcome of last week’s Egyptian presidential elections was about as preordained as it gets when it comes to predicting foreign events, yet somehow most of the major media outlets seemed to miss it. The Telegraph, on May 25th after the first round of Presidential voting, described the Muslim Brotherhood candidate…

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Zionism and bigotry

BY MELANIE PHILIPS— In the wake of the festival of Shavuot, when Jews have been celebrating the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai from where he presented them to the Jewish people camped at its foot, I have been brooding over the fact that Zionism has become a dirty word in…

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Apartheid comes home – the New South Africa

BY RON JAGER— Since 1991 when South Africa hosted the infamous “Zionism is Racism” United Nations World Conference against Racism in Durban in 2001 followed later on by the flawed and erroneous Goldstone Report, headed by the South African jurist, Richard Goldstone after the 2006 Gaza War between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group.  South…

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Evangelicals : Righteous Gentiles for Israel

BY MICHAEL CURTIS, GATESTONE— Jews in democratic countries are disproportionately disposed more than other groups to prefer the left spectrum of political and cultural affairs — a spectrum that is in general unfriendly to the evangelical Christian movement. It is therefore not surprising that only 20% of Jewish Americans hold a favorable opinion of the…

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