By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Over the past two decades, Israel has managed to destroy its regional reputation. With our own hands, we have twice shown our neighbors they have little reason to tie their fates to ours. We are unreliable. In 1994, Israel betrayed the Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Gaza who had helped us…
By DAVID HOROVITZ, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013, chose to give his book on that period in Washington the catchy title “Ally”. But this new memoir — an unprecedented case of a former public servant so quickly writing up sometimes intimate revelations on acutely sensitive…
BY MICHAEL OREN, WSJ— ‘Nobody has a monopoly on making mistakes.” When I was Israel’s ambassador to the United States from 2009 to the end of 2013, that was my standard response to reporters asking who bore the greatest responsibility—President Barack Obama or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—for the crisis in U.S.-Israel relations. I never felt like I…
Torah: Numbers 16:1 – 18:32. “Korach” (Korah … ) Haftorah: I Samuel 11:14 – 12:22 New Testament: Romans 13:1 – 7 Gospel: Matthew 22:15 – 22, “Keesar” (Caesar … )
By ABRAHAM MILLER, JPOST— Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, now serving the eleventh year of his four-year term, should pause and consider that Israel is no longer his biggest problem. Even Hamas is no longer his biggest problem. Abbas’ Fatah organization grew out of secular ideologies. Its largest threat now comes from the growing…
By WND— The Middle East essentially is one big battlefield over Israel’s right to exist, and it long ago spread onto American college campuses as the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” movement gained strength. But human-rights activist, documentary filmmaker and New York Times bestselling author Joel Richardson charges many people have fallen victim to a false…
By ABRA FORMAN, BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS— Stephen Curry, who Tuesday helped lead his team the Golden State Warriors to their first NBA Finals win in 40 years, has always felt a strong connection to the Bible and the Hebrew language through his Christian faith. “My parents had us in church every Sunday and every Wednesday…I’m…
By HERB KEINON, JPOST— In polite diplomatic circles, former ambassador to the US Michael Oren is the Israeli envoy to Washington to love; current envoy Ron Dermer the one to hate. Oren the diplomatic diplomat open to everyone; Dermer nothing more than Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “ambassador to the Republican Party.” Oren the disciplined golden…
By MARK LANGFAN, ARUTZ 7— Everyone is coming up with different theories and cures for the Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel, and everyone ignores the simple truth staring them in the face: The so-called “Two-State Solution” is the sole cause of the BDS movement. Until the Israeli government exposes the “Two-State Solution” as a charade…
By JOSH GELERNTER, NATIONAL REVIEW— Last week, President Obama said that he is “the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat” in the Oval Office. Which means, he said, that when people say he’s “anti-Israel,” “it hurts.” Since taking office, Mr. Obama has said many noxious things. Mostly overlooked was something he said…