August 3, 2024

Israel Will Be Blamed for Iran’s Destruction of Lebanon

Iran’s strategy of Middle East conquest by proxy has proven remarkably effective.  Lebanon, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen have all turned into pawns in the Persian power’s quest for regional dominance.  The latest itera...

April 12, 2024

How the New York Times Foments Antisemitism

The New York Times has a well documented obsession with Gazan hunger that fuels hostility toward Israel and Jews, by falsely suggesting that the world’s only Jewish state is maliciously responsible for the greatest humanitarian crisis on the pl...

April 5, 2024

The NYT and the Politics of Famine

Readers of the New York Times can be forgiven for thinking that Gaza suffers from the greatest famine on the planet today, because that paper's coverage bias leaves room for no other conclusion. But a very different picture emerges when cons...

February 8, 2024

Resettle Gazans to End the Endless War

The Biden administration thinks that a reformed Palestinian Authority (PA) could run a post-war Gaza Strip at peace with Israel, but that ignores several inconvenient facts: 1) The latest poll of Palestinian public opinion sh...

January 31, 2024

Poll Reveals Brutal Gaza Reality

In the 18 years since Israel withdrew its military and civilians from the Gaza Strip, Hamas has fired approximately 30,000 rockets and mortars at Israel: about 12,000 from 2007 until 2019, another 4,360 during eleven days of war in 2021 and, over 12,...

November 25, 2023

Damning Discrepancies in the NYT's Israel Coverage

A close look at how the New York Times (NYT) has been reporting on Israel’s current conflict with Hamas reveals a troubling pattern of omissions, missing balance and context, and an emphasis that inevitably enhances reader sympathy for Gazan mi...

October 5, 2015

Inveterate anti-Israel bias at the New York Times

When Palestinian terrorists recently murdered Israelis before being killed by Israeli forces who neutralized their murderous rampage, the Palestinian Authority (PA) condemned Israel for killing the Palestinian terrorists (clearly,...

May 24, 2015

<em>Islamo-Fascism and the War Against the Jews</em>

We live in an era where mobs and bullies distort the truth and silence dissent -- whether at the UN or at the university -- and that makes the role of fearless truth-tellers all the more critical. This week, Israel was singled out a...

July 28, 2014

How the Media Support Hamas' Efforts to Delegitimize Israel

The Palestinians long ago realized that they cannot defeat Israel militarily and opted instead to delegitimize and diplomatically isolate Israel. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has approached this goal by pushing for unilateral diplomatic recognit...

November 19, 2013

Obama's Iran Moves Could Start World War III

According to a recent news report, President Barack Obama has for over a year secretly conducted negotiations with Iran (through his adviser Valerie Jarrett) and the Geneva talks on Iranian nukes now appear to be just a facade providing internat...

November 12, 2013

Can Israel Survive Obama?

See also: A Dangerous Time for Israel Those who hoped that Obama's Middle East policies wouldn't get any worse have awakened to a nasty surprise: the Obama administration is actively making it harder for Israel to neutralize Iran's nukes, and more li...

October 4, 2013

Are CNN's Iran Reports Biased, Inept, or Corrupt?

Al-Jazeera bought access to US public opinion when it purchased Current TV from Al Gore, but it faces stiff competition from CNN when it comes to misleading viewers about the Middle East. Over the last week, CNN has promoted a biased, re-branded imag...

September 25, 2013

Rouhani Outsmarts Obama

With starry-eyed optimism, Western leaders and members of the media have recently fawned all over the new Iranian president, Hasan Rouhani, as if he had taken any meaningful steps to reverse Iran's illicit nuclear program, abysmal human rights abuses...

September 10, 2013

Lavrov Helped Obama Dodge the Syrian Bullet

Any diplomatic initiative on Syria coming from Russia, whose UN votes have perpetuated Assad's killing machine for over two years, should be viewed with extreme suspicion. Nevertheless, the latest Russian proposal merits serious consideration. Ru...

September 2, 2013

Obama: Spineless on Syria

On August 20, 2012 President Obama warned against chemical weapons' use in Syria, declaring it a "red line." On Dec. 3, 2012, Obama repeated his warning to Assad, saying "The use of chemical weapons is... totally unacceptable. And if you make the tra...

August 31, 2013

India, Israel, and Iran

At first glance, Hindu-majority India, with approximately 1.2 billion people and an entire subcontinent, would seem to have little in common with Jewish-majority Israel, which has only about eight million people living on territory that's just roughl...

August 23, 2013

Christians: On the Front Lines of Muslim Violence

As Egypt's Islamists blame Christians for the ouster of Mohammed Morsi, anti-Christian violence has reached epidemic levels, with an estimated 82 churches across Egypt attacked and heavily damaged by Morsi supporters in a mere 48 hours. Unfort...

August 2, 2013

The Five Flaws of Kerry's Mideast Peace Process

1) No Palestinian reciprocity at the outset. Israel agreed to release 104 convicted terrorists just to get the Palestinians to talk peace. Would the U.S. agree to release 104 Guantanamo prisoners for talks with anyone? Israel will undoubtedly be blam...

July 18, 2013

The EU's Broken Mideast Compass

The European Union recently sent out a directive barring its 28 members from cooperating with Israeli entities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The boycott includes "all funding, cooperation, and the granting of scholarships, research grants and ...

July 16, 2013

Apocalyptic Threats Cannot be Hoped Away: Iranian Nukes Must be Stopped

President Obama's Middle East policy has been an ever-worsening train wreck because it lacks credibility and strategy, as Egypt, Libya, and particularly Syria, have shown. And the region is about to get much worse, unless Obama exercises resolute l...

July 5, 2013

Kudos to Egypt for Mending the Morsi Mistake

Critics who call the recent coup by the Egyptian army "undemocratic" are placing form over substance and forgetting that the election of Mohamed Morsi was itself arguably undemocratic. Because his Muslim Brotherhood party was the only organized polit...

June 30, 2013

Jews From Muslim Lands

June 20 was World Refugee Day, dedicated to nearly 60 million people worldwide who have been forcibly displaced by conflict or persecution. One group of refugees rarely acknowledged is the Jews who were indigenous to Muslim lands but who were compell...

June 20, 2013

Iran's President Rouhani: a Nuclear Fig Leaf

Naive observers of the recent Iranian presidential election call it a "game-changer." Such optimism warrants a sober assessment of the election, Hassan Rouhani, and the context within which he operates. An unelected body of 12 Islamic jurists select...

June 18, 2013

The Troubling Timing of Obama's Syria Epiphany

Last August, President Obama declared that the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons was a "red line." About four months later, Al Jazeera released unconfirmed reports that a gas attack killed seven civilians in a rebel-held neighborhood of Homs. L...

June 9, 2013

Middle East Gay Pride and LGBT Safety Exist Only in Israel

Tel Aviv just hosted its 15th annual Gay Pride Festival, attended by a record-breaking 100,000 spectators and participants, including some of Israel's most powerful politicians.  Here is The Times of Israel report on the event: Tel ...

June 3, 2013

Why Iranian Elections Won't Matter this Time

In his 2009 inaugural address, President Barack Obama declared, "To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing...

May 20, 2013

Obama-gate and World War III

Americans are the biggest losers from the slew of scandals now rocking the White House, but who are the biggest winners?  Iran, North Korea, Syria, China, and Russia.  If U.S. foreign policy seemed spineless and muddled in confronting bad a...

May 18, 2013

IRS Update

So at the end of the week of three massive crises of confidence facing the Obama administration, what has the response been thus far? Wednesday's brief statement from Obama and the resignation of Steven Miller, the IRS acting commissioner (whose term...

May 16, 2013

The Audacity of Disappointment

The timing of so many sensational American crime stories packed together -- Jodi Arias, Ariel Castro, Kermit Gosnell -- were a news cycle boon that gave President Obama some precious time to prepare for a fast approaching storm of scandals while the ...

April 25, 2013

Imagine a Boston Bombing Every Week

I empathize with the victims of the Boston bombing; they were killed, maimed, injured, and/or forever traumatized only because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  As they gathered to compete in or watch the marathon underw...

April 20, 2013

Syria, Hezb'allah, and EU Appeasement

The Syrian civil war may undo the European Union's attempts to appease Hezb'allah, and has revealed how the Iran-backed terrorist organization undermines -- rather than promotes -- Lebanon's interests. Following the July 2006 war that Hezb'allah pro...

April 6, 2013

Land for War

President Obama's recent charm offensive in Israel apparently had two aims: 1) to lull Israel into forfeiting timely military action against Iranian nukes in the hope that Obama will act instead, and 2) to convince Israelis that now is the time ...

February 23, 2013

Beware Turkish Hypocrisy

Recent Turkish pressure on France and Germany regarding accession to the European Union heighten the need to question Turkey's strategic intentions and political identity. Is Turkey a moderate, pro-Western democracy? Or is it run by Islamists embraci...

February 17, 2013

Two Years On: The Arab Spring Could Use Some Talmud

The Talmud is a pillar of Jewish law, containing dialectical opinions from thousands of rabbis debating law, philosophy, history, theology, and myriad other topics.  By displaying argumentation by many minds, a page of Talmud enshrines dissent. ...

February 8, 2013

Will Obama Let Iran Start World War III

Iran could have its first atomic bomb within four to six months of the regime's decision to assemble one, according to an assessment last Monday by Amos Yadlin, former IDF Director of Military Intelligence. About a week earlier, Tehran declared that ...

February 1, 2013

Mali Reveals the Media's Gaza Bias

I support France's military action in Mali. But the media's reaction to it -- when contrasted with coverage of Israel's military actions in Gaza -- reveals flagrant double standards. More on that after my reasons for supporting France's Mali operatio...

December 30, 2012

MidEast Christians: an Endangered Species

During this Christmas season, it is worth remembering the historical roots of Christians in the Middle East, and recognizing just how much the plight of Middle East Christians has deteriorated. Over 2,000 years ago, Christianity was born as a religio...

December 6, 2012

The Five Myths That Empower Hamas

The recent offensive by Hamas, deemed a terrorist organization by the United States, left about 3.5 million Israelis vulnerable or sprinting to shelters as warning sirens blared. If a neighboring terrorist entity were regularly lobbing missiles at US...

August 19, 2012

Only the U.S. Can Peacefully End Iranian Nukes

Israel's deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon recently declared that the (nearly decade-long) diplomatic efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program have failed.  Last Friday, Iranian President Ahmadinejad called Israel a "tumor" that will soon be de...