Israel

This year’s Palestinian Nakba Day, the holiday in which Palestinians mourn the creation of Israel, has been particularly active.  Aside from the violence that has erupted in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, pro-Palestinian protestors from both Lebanon and Syria have confronted the Israeli northern border.  A group of Palestinian refugee’s stormed and crossed the […]

George Mitchell, the former Senate Majority Leader and Obama administration’s lead Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiator, resigned, effective next week, but his true impact on the peace process will only emerge when the memoirs are written years from now. On the face of it, though, Mitchell, who managed to secure a northern Ireland peace deal, was not […]

The smoke has hardly cleared from the revolution in Egypt, and the Egyptian people already have a new adversary: Turkey. Recent reconciliation talks between Fatah and Hamas may have taken place in Egypt, but few have cheered more loudly for the results than Turkey. And while Egypt has the power, but not quite the will […]

As I stated in my last article, Egypt is trying to showcase its apparently rejuvenated power and strength by facilitating Palestinian reconciliation.  I personally believe it is a PR move.  However, if Egypt wants to prove its might is legitimate, it should find a way to return Gilad Schalit to Israel.  No individual, political party, […]

From House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office: Jerusalem – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and a bipartisan delegation arrived in Israel today and met with Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu to discuss U.S.-Israel relations and regional security issues.  Leader Pelosi issued the following statement this evening: “Our bipartisan delegation was pleased to arrive in Israel to […]

A few days ago Egypt facilitated and hosted a meeting between Fatah and Hamas in Cairo.  It was largely viewed as a public relations move to legitimize the Palestinian push for statehood through the United Nations, as well as boost Egyptian image.  There is serious doubt about the sincerity of the unification attempt and many […]

President Barack Obama’s statement today on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom haShoah) references the Adolf Eichmann trial, which were central to the Israeli psyche’s grappling in the afternoon of the systematic slaughter of six million Jews. Prior to the Eichmann trial in Israel, Jews who emigrated to Israel did not often speak about their experiences in […]

During this so-called Arab Spring, Middle Eastern dictators have attempted to suppress revolutions by murdering demonstrators, prompting the Obama administration to condemn those actions in the “strongest possible terms.” It appears that Hamas, the Palestinian Authority’s  new governing partner, has reserved that kind of condemnation for the U.S. attack that killed terrorist mastermind Osama bin […]

The reconciliation between the Iran-backed terror group Hamas and the West Bank-governing Palestinian Authority will not result in an inherent repositioning of either group or the moderation of proposals to wipe Israel off the map and instill a government operated under the auspices of radical Islam. That inherent radicalization of the Palestinians could, though, benefit […]

There was a really interesting article written this week by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Patrick Clawson and Michael Singh about Palestinian state building.  The article discussed the claim by the IMF and World Bank that the West Bank is very close to being prepared for statehood.  Clawson and Singh argued that in […]

Israel’s worst fears on the so-called democratic revolution in Egypt seem to be taking shape, with a majority of Egyptians calling for an annulment of the peace agreement and extensive support for the terror-aligned Muslim Brotherhood continuing to take root, according to a new poll of Egyptians from the Pew Research Center. Pew found that […]

Over the course of the last month, Conservative and Reform synagogue’s in Israel have been under attack. They have been vandalized and had stones thrown at them. They have had their windows broken and the ensuing glass shards scattered amongst their playgrounds and sanctuaries. Some of these attacks have come during Shabbat, while the congregation […]