BY DICK MORRIS— If the election were held today, President Obama would get only 56 percent of the Jewish vote against a generic Republican candidate, down from the 78 percent he won in 2008 and less than the 74 percent John Kerry received in 2004. This is the key finding of a survey of 1,000…
BY GEORGE GILDER, WALL STREET JOURNAL— America’s enemies understand deeply and intuitively that no U.S. goals or resources in the Middle East are remotely as important as Israel. Why don’t we? Israel cruised through the recent global slump with scarcely a down quarter and no deficit or stimulus package. It is steadily increasing its global…
BY LAWRENCE SOLOMON— In the first 25 years after Israel’s founding in 1948, it was repeatedly attacked by the large armies of its Arab neighbours. Each time, Israel prevailed on the battlefield, only to have its victories rolled back by Western powers who feared losing access to Arab oilfields. The fear was and is legitimate…
BY FRANK GAFFNEY— The Obama administration chose the eve of the holiday marking our Nation’s birth to acknowledge publicly behavior in which it has long been stealthily engaged to the United States’ extreme detriment: Its officials now admit that they are embracing the Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan in Arabic). That would be the same…
BY JONATHAN SCHANZER, WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE— The Palestinian government doesn’t intend to declare statehood until September, but the ramifications of the move are already clear. Jordan’s King Abdullah predicts a “third intifada,” Israel is bracing for renewed violence and France has convened a conference to try to reach a compromise. Luckily, there may still…
BY AVIEL MAGNEZI, YNET— For the second time in recent days, a Gaza-bound ship attempted to leave its Greek port without authorization en route to the Strip, prompting Greek forces to stop it at sea. This time it was the Canadian Tahrir vessel, which left Crete Monday afternoon and headed towards Gaza, before being taken…
BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, JPOST— The Palestinian Authority will abandon its plan to ask the UN in September to recognize a Palestinian state along pre-1967 lines if Quartet members – the US, EU, UN and Russia – recognize the two-state principle as the basis for a settlement and call on Israel to withdraw from the…
BY EARL COX To those who embrace the truth and support Israel, the following is lengthy but it contains many facts which have yet to be disseminated by the media. To know the truth you MUST have the facts which I am providing to you below. From all reports, the anticipated flotilla provocation of Israel…
BY JEFF JACOBY, THE BOSTON GLOBE— THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE announced to the world the birth of a new nation and every birth “excites our interest,” President Calvin Coolidge said on the Declaration’s 150th anniversary. But that is not why July 4, 1776, “has come to be regarded as one of the greatest days in…