A core question arises from last weekend's Arab League summit in Damascus. Boycotted by half the league's members, the conference demonstrated the depth of Egyptian and Saudi opposition to Iran's rise to prominence in the Arab world. So too, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki's ostentatious participation at the summit showed the strength of Iran's... [ Read entire Post ]
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March 2008 Archives
March 31, 2008 at 11:49 PM
America's coalition confusion
March 30, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Update on The New Israeli Guardsmen
Since my article appeared last week, I have been inundated with requests to help support the organization. Some people have asked to join. Others have asked to contribute.For those who wish to join the Guardsmen, contact Ro'i Sonnenberg. His phone number in Israel is 054-638-3998.As to contributions, the group is just completing the process of... [ Read entire Post ]
March 28, 2008 at 2:55 PM
Israel's accountability problem
On April 10 two brothers are scheduled to begin serving prison sentences for a crime they never committed. Yitzhak and Daniel Halamish were convicted of aggravated assault and were sentenced respectively, to seven and eight months in jail. The two men, who live in Maaleh Rehavam south of Bethlehem were arrested on February 22, 2004.... [ Read entire Post ]
March 26, 2008 at 10:44 AM
Rice's betrayal of Israel
In her monthly trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority next week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to criticize Israel for its announced plan to build new housing for Jews in Jerusalem. Referring to the government’s plans in a recent tour of the city, U.S. Ambassador Richard Jones said that as far as... [ Read entire Post ]
March 25, 2008 at 12:07 AM
The New Guardians of Israel
Moshav Tzipori, in the Lower Galilee, is a microcosm of the history of the Land of Israel. A regional capital under King Herod, Tzipori was the seat of Jewish learning and the preservation of the Torah through some of the most tumultuous periods of Jewish history. After the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem... [ Read entire Post ]
March 21, 2008 at 11:44 PM
Iraq, the Palestinians and the necessity of political debate
US Vice President Richard Cheney's visit to Iraq on the fifth anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom was given scant coverage in the media. And yet it may go down in history as a pivotal moment in the transformation of post-Saddam Iraq into a beacon of democracy and freedom in the Arab world. Hours after Cheney's... [ Read entire Post ]
March 19, 2008 at 11:05 PM
My book is out!
My book, Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad is OUT.Click on the link to order from the publisher. Or you can order it on Amazon.Great reading for yourselves and all your friends, family, casual acquaintances, nodding acquaintances and complete strangers who you happen to pass on the street!Buy it, read it, and let me... [ Read entire Post ]
March 18, 2008 at 8:45 PM
The Quality of Obama's Character
I grew up on the south side of Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s so I have a bit of local interest in Senator Barack Obama’s race for the White House. Obama and his family live in my old neighborhood, Hyde Park. My siblings and I all attended our local public high school –... [ Read entire Post ]
Germany's pro-Israel power play
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's speech in German before the Knesset this afternoon will be the culmination of what the Israeli media has referred to as an "historic" three-day state visit to Israel. The day before Merkel launched her "historic" visit, Der Spiegel reported on the "historic" visit of another German to Afghanistan. That visit ended... [ Read entire Post ]
March 14, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Musharraf's Israeli disciples
To understand the strange twists that Hamas's war against Israel has taken over the past week, it is instructive to cast a glance at the current situation in Pakistan. For in their dealings with Hamas, the Bush administration and the Olmert-Livni-Barak government have apparently been operating in accordance with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's playbook. In... [ Read entire Post ]
March 11, 2008 at 1:12 AM
Whither Israeli Arabs?
Last Thursday, a 28-year-old IDF non-commissioned officer was killed by a roadside bomb along the border with Gaza. A Beduin from the South, he served as a combat tracker. At his funeral, his cousin said, "He did everything he could to convince [Beduin] youth to enlist in the army to serve the state. He said... [ Read entire Post ]
March 7, 2008 at 6:54 PM
Condi's echo-chamber
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left many Israelis and supporters of Israel scratching their heads in disbelief this week. Rice arrived in Israel in a week marked by Fatah-incited violence against Israel and Israelis, both in Judea and Samaria and within sovereign Israel. On Monday, a well organized group of hundreds of Arab thugs... [ Read entire Post ]
March 6, 2008 at 11:00 PM
8 murdered in massacre at Mercaz Harav yeshiva
I heard the ambulance sirens wailing from my window and from the sheer quantity it was clear that something terrible had just happened. I checked the internet and saw an initial report relating that one student at Mercaz Harav Yeshiva was wounded. And I knew that it was a massacre. That’s how it always starts.... [ Read entire Post ]
March 4, 2008 at 12:07 AM
Sound and fury signifying incompetence
The Olmert-Livni-Barak government's latest exercise in saber-rattling has ended with customary haste. Sunday Palestinian terror forces maintained their rocket and missile offensive against Israel, shooting 40 rockets, including upgraded Katyusha missiles at Sderot, Ashkelon, Netivot and surrounding areas. Whereas in 2005, 25,000 Israelis lived within Palestinian rocket and missile range from Gaza, the past week... [ Read entire Post ]
