By Isi Leibler | Posted October 20, 2009 | Comments: 42
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 ...
By Gil Troy | Posted November 19, 2009 | Comments: 1
The great Israeli disconnect is the chasm between what you experience living in Israel day to day and what you read about Israel in headlines day after day. Life in Israel is far calmer, safer, smoother and lovelier than the media coverage - pro o...
By Sherri Mandell | Posted October 25, 2009 | Comments: 3
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...
By Gidi Grinstein | Posted March 01, 2009 | Comments: 1
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 ...
By Martin Kramer | Posted October 13, 2009 | Comments: 3
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...
By Ed Koch | Posted November 19, 2009 | Comments: 12
If General Stanley McChrystal's request of President Obama for 40,000 additional troops for Afghanistan is to be met, the cost would be $40 billion to $54 b. a year, according to an internal government estimate published by The New York Times on November ...
By David Harris | Posted November 08, 2009 | Comments: 28
I was born with a simple, straightforward name - David Harris. Thankfully, it never generated attention, much less teasing, while growing up.
Yet it was actually quite unique in my milieu. I was surrounded by Jewish kids, and Harris was not ...
By Abraham Foxman | Posted November 05, 2009 | Comments: 17
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...
By Alan M. Dershowitz | Posted October 22, 2009 | Comments: 42
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...
By Yariv Oppenheimer | Posted August 06, 2009 | Comments: 40
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 ...