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Candidly Speaking: President Obama: Do not forsake Israel

The disgusting behavior by the vast majority of members of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) in relation to the Goldstone Report was no surprise. An international body with an automatic majority of Arab and rogue states was not expected to ...

Center Field: Why left-wing McCarthyism is no better than right-wing McCarthyism

In her recent Jerusalem Post Magazine column, in which she gave Israel a "Democracy Check" fourteen years after Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, Naomi Chazan ominously failed her own test. In analyzing Israel's "ongoi...

Heart-Earned Wisdom: American Justice Department, where art thou?

The American Justice Department is not behaving any better than the American State Department when it comes to helping victims of overseas terror. The State Department has seemingly wiped its hands of Israeli victims of terror. They have a highly regarded R...

A Link in the Chain: A crisis for Zionism?

The recent elections in Israel exposed a new low point in its prolonged crisis of governance and leadership - a crisis rooted in an electoral system which generates constant instability, a fragmented Knesset and ineffective governance. Reforming ...

Inside the Middle East: Shalem College takes off

I've been tapped to serve as the president-designate of Shalem College, Israel's first liberal arts college, which will go from plan to reality over the next three years. Elliot Jager, editorial page editor of The Jerusalem Post , interviewed me about th...

Koch's Comments: For the jobless, the Great recession continues

According to The New York Times of October 30, "The nation's gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the quarter that ended in September, matching its average growth rate of the last 80 years."  I'm no...

In the Trenches: Time to be put out to pasture?

When I turned 50, everything was fine, or so I thought, until that first mailing arrived from the American Association of Retired Persons inviting me to join. Was it possible, despite a full-time job, kids at home, and a daily jogging routine, that I ...

A Point of View: Hillary's Middle East saga

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's excursion to the Middle East has the look about it of a leader responding to the latest political pressure point. She goes to Jerusalem and says that Israeli settlements should not stand in the way of negotiations, and e...

Double Standard Watch: Goldstone criticizes UN Council on Human Rights

Richard Goldstone, the primary author of the infamous Goldstone Report, is now trying to distance himself from the way in which the report is being used to single out Israel for condemnation. Most recently he criticized the United Nations Council on Human R...

Building Bridges: Surprise - Fatah isn't joining the WZO

At its convention in Bethlehem this week, Fatah refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state or adopt Hebrew as its official language, and didn't conclude with a rendition of HaTikva (Israel's national anthem). What a disappointment, what ...
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