Despite the appearance of pandering to local concerns, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Mideast trip has been important in setting straight American priorities in an effort to get the peace process back on track.

In the past, the world has often watched Israel's ingenuity on the battlefield with awe and admiration. We now need to demonstrate some of that very same ingenuity on the new media battlefield by reducing the enemy's arsenal.

Dream on, those of you who forget or don't like to reckon with the element of power in international politics. Things change, but no one knows the future. Dreamers and ideologues may be right, but theirs is a risky bet.

We've been told by economists that there is always a lag, sometimes lasting years, between economic recovery indicators like increases in the GDP and the reduction in unemployment. But that doesn't have to be the case.

Does Arab criminal behavior negate any of their political goals? So why are the Jews always having a finger pointed at them, not to mention the inaccuracies, the false claims, the lousy statistics, the misstated facts, etc.?

While one ADL study reports a drop in the number of Americans holding anti-Semitic views, that number was still 30 million, a not very consoling statistic for our American Diaspora.