By LEE SMITH, TABLET— This past weekend the White House clarified yet again what’s been apparent to everyone in the Middle East for quite a while now: The United States wants out, for real. “There’s a whole world out there,” National Security Adviser Susan Rice told the New York Times, “and we’ve got interests and…
By YUVAL STEINITZ, NY TIMES— On Sept. 26, the Palestinian Authority’s president, Mahmoud Abbas, told the United Nations General Assembly that the Palestinians “keep reaching out to the Israelis saying: let us work to make the culture of peace reign.” Honorable sentiments, to be sure, but sadly not free of hypocrisy. Just after returning from…
By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— “Peace” talks. “Peace” negotiations. It is imperative that the people of Israel wake up and realize that there will never be peace with the Palestinians as long as there is a State of Israel populated by Jews. The problem is not settlements or construction or small pieces of land in…
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Twenty years ago this week, Israel committed one of the greatest strategic blunders in its modern history, one that is still casting a long and painful shadow over the entire Middle East. Ignoring military intelligence, moral principles and basic common sense, then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Accords with PLO…
By ADIV STERMAN, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Two days before the scheduled resumption of peace talks with the Palestinians, a diplomatic source said Monday that Israel secretly authorized construction of 900 new housing units in East Jerusalem. The Housing Ministry later confirmed that additional permits for housing construction had indeed been issued. The new units will…
By YOSSI TZUR, ISRAEL HAYOM— Today (Monday) we bereaved families will once again hold a “ceremony” at the Supreme Court. Every few years, under one pretext or another, the government decides to release murderous terrorists. Perhaps in exchange for a captive soldier, perhaps to recover soldiers’ bodies, or merely as a precondition for talks. Talks,…
By SULTAN KNISH— In one of the most famous events in the Bible, G-d commanded Abraham to sacrifice his only son. So Abraham took his son Isaac, bound him on an altar and prepared to bring him up as a burnt offering. And then the voice of the angel called to him and told him…
By ASHER ZEIGER, TIMES OF ISRAEL— Most Israeli Jews would oppose a peace agreement with the Palestinians if it included a full West Bank pullout with land swaps to let Israel retain major settlement population centers, according to a new poll that appears to contradict the conclusions of other recent surveys. The poll, released Tuesday…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST—- Standing next to US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday morning, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni gushed that through his indefatigable efforts to bring Israeli and Palestinian officials to Washington, Kerry proved that “nothing can stop true believers.” As usual, the cognitively-challenged Livni told us something she hadn’t intended to say.…
By WARREN MANISON, UCI— The proposed Two State solution to the Israel/Palestinian impasse is an impossibility. Separate states for Jews and Palestinian Arabs, living side by side in peace in the Holy Land, have been proposed and rejected by Arabs in recent history. When one fails to learn from history, one is doomed to repeat…