July 12, 2022

How the light dawned

As we know, young people have always been — and certainly are today — filled with idealistic notions.  That is good and is part of growing up.  I certainly was idealistic and, not surprisingly, had automatically wished...

June 14, 2022

Words and Consequences: 'West Bank' vs. Judaea and Samaria

When did it become an accepted truism that peace between Israel and the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians requires that Israel give to them its very own Biblical birthright in the Jewish heartland? When did the Oslo Accords supersede the eternal...

July 31, 2021

The Warped Vision of a Two-State Solution

During eight baleful years, President Barack Hussein Obama made Israel’s life utterly miserable as he pursued relentlessly his warped vision of a ‘Two State Solution’ to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. But that vision, being i...

June 29, 2021

Forget About Making Peace with the Islamic World

The great humorist, Jerome K. Jerome, suggested many years ago that, “… we all love peace, but not peace at any price.” Peace is only a reality between states that are rational and can in time become friendly towards each other....

August 24, 2017

Mr. President: Don't negotiate with the swamp. Drain it.

What we saw emerging in Charlottesville was the violent wing of the unholy alliance that exists in tandem with what is called "the swamp."  Democrats and even some renegade Republicans have their tentacles deep into our duly ...

January 12, 2017

A Look Back at the First Disastrous 'Two-State Solution'

In the 11th hour and the 59th minute of his miserable term in the White House, Barack Hussein Obama struck his knife deep into the heart of the embattled Jewish state. With the appalling anti-Israel passage of U.N. Security Council Resol...

April 19, 2016

Is Obama plotting yet again to harm embattled Israel?

According to a report dated April 16, 2016 in the sometimes reliable Debka Special Report, “Israel’s top political leaders and military commanders were stunned and shocked last weekend when they found out that US President Barack Obama an...

April 18, 2015

There Is a Storm Coming

Along with Tax Day, this year April 15th marked Holocaust Remembrance Day, to remind us of the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany and its European allies against the stateless and hapless Jews a mere 70 years ago. The largest Jewish cemetery in the ...

August 19, 2014

To Cross the Rubicon

There is a time in a nation’s history when a decision of immense and fundamental importance must be made.  Such a decision means embarking on a new direction that alters everything that has gone before.  It is a veritable crossing of ...

April 21, 2013

Why Do So Many Muslims Embrace Religious and Ideological Warfare?

Mahatma Gandhi is quoted in his book, Gandhi: The Power of Pacifism, by Catherine Clement, as follows: While Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Parsees and Jews, along with several million adherents of an animistic religion, all coexisted in relative...

March 24, 2013

Passover's gift: The Promised and Undivided Land

Billions, of the world's people do not know the meaning of the towering festival of freedom and liberty known as Passover; a festival of spring, recognizing an event that has blessed the world for over 3,300 years. The festival begins on March 25th o...

January 31, 2013

Is the Obama administration deliberately feeding the flames in Egypt?

What the Muslim Brotherhood's victory in Egypt meant was the end of any hope on the part of secularists, women, and especially Egyptian Christians who were yearning for equal rights and the beginning of a true and enlightened fledgling democracy. Ins...

November 20, 2012

What Israel Must Do

Israel must choke off the endless supply of weapons and missiles into Gaza by repossessing the Philadelphi Corridor -- the narrow strip of land separating Egypt from the Gaza Strip. It should do this as a most basic but vital military act for its own...

November 13, 2012

Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent

In Shakespeare's Richard III, the Duke of Gloucester wins a military campaign, later becoming Richard III and bringing tyranny and calamity to his opponents and the realm.  So, too, the re-election of Barack Hussein Obama as president of the USA...

August 22, 2012

Obama's World: Through a Glass Darkly

For anyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear, and who is not terminally obtuse, the present incumbent of the Oval Office has deliberately helped engineer Islam's latest and successful lust for world domination through sharia law and geopolitical c...

June 10, 2012

The Six-Day War: Israel's Miraculous Victory

Forty-five years ago, on June 5, 1967, the world was writing Israel's obituary.  The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, along with military contingents from many other Arab and Muslim regimes, were all poised...

May 21, 2012

The Scourge of Araby

In the 1921 hit song, The Sheikh of Araby, there is one line that goes as follows, "...While you're asleep, into your tent I'll creep." Of course the song was referring to the sheikh who romantically pursued the headstrong British heroine who then fe...

February 19, 2012

Who Truly Deserves a State? The Kurds or the Palestinians?

There are over twenty Arab states throughout the Middle East and North Africa, but the world demands, in a chorus of barely disguised animosity towards Israel, that yet another Arab state be created within the mere forty miles separating the Mediterr...

January 8, 2012

Looming Destruction: Will Jews Ever Learn?

On the eve of the Second World War, Chaim Weizmann, who was to become Israel's first president, wrote the following about the persecutions taking place in Nazi Germany: It would require the eloquence of a Jeremiah to picture the horrors, the human...

December 23, 2011

Israel: Some Basic Facts

The more things change, the more they stay the same.  Nothing could attest to that fact more than the Israel-Arab conflict, which in reality is the Israel-Islamist conflict. This is not a territorial dispute between Israel and those Arabs who ...

September 18, 2011

ErdoДџan's Not-So-Sublime Porte

The Muslim and Arab world smells blood.  Like sharks circling their prey, many in most of the world's 57 Muslim states are eager and willing to commit genocide against embattled Israel. With the Palestinian Authority's leadership pressing ahea...

August 11, 2011

The Rule of Lawlessness

Mark Levin, the conservative philosopher of the airways, reminded me recently of what Milton Freidman once said: Why is it considered nobler when a politician spends your money than when you spend your money? Which begs the following questions. Why ...

March 29, 2011

Hillary's War

Let us first look back to the bombing of Serbia by President Clinton and who was most instrumental in encouraging him. According to Dean Murphy in the New York Times of October 2000, "Hillary Clinton called for the US to reject isolationism and ...

February 5, 2011

Obama Well Knows What Chaos He Has Unleashed

Not content with creating havoc in the U.S. economy, setting Americans against each other, and forcing through a health reform act which has nothing to do with health but everything to do with the redistribution of wealth and an immense increase in g...

October 17, 2010

Forward to the Past

Edmund Burke, British statesman and philosopher, known for his famous aphorism "all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing," also uttered other words of wisdom.Reflecting on the parlous condition of the stat...

October 3, 2010

The Plague of the Un-Jews

Some years ago, posing as a supporter of the PLO, I infiltrated an Arab anti-Israel meeting held in a room above a London pub. There were mostly Arabs present with a sprinkling of non-Arabs, mostly local Brits. Among the Brits was a man who told the ...

September 3, 2010

The Siren Song of Arab Rejectionism

Another round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians began yesterday at the White House. Present were the two Arab leaders and autocrats who are putatively at peace with Israel, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's kinglet, Abdullah. But, a...

July 13, 2010

The Mosques of War

Of the three monotheistic religions, Judaism is considered the mother faith and the other two, Christianity and Islam, her daughters. The first daughter, Christianity, under the influence of the early church fathers, rejected the mother and distanced...

July 7, 2010

The Arab Veil of Deception and the Left

Though they will not expose it in the media, Arab-Muslim anti-Israel activists feel a profound and debilitating sense of humiliation at the inherent failings of their own societies. So what better way to deflect their dissatisfaction within Araby tha...

June 6, 2010

Israeli and Kurdish victims of Turkey

Sometime ago, before Turkey chose to lurch further into the deadly embrace of Islamism, I received a plea from a Kurdish friend who remains supportive of Israel's epic struggle to survive among its hostile Arab neighbors. He is also devoted to the Je...

April 12, 2010

Abdullah in Wonderland

When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, encountering situations that defied logic and characters who acted in bizarre ways, she was fortunate not to meet Jordan's kinglet, Abdullah II. Kinglet is an apt description for this monarch, first coined by col...

March 3, 2010

Apartheid is Alive and Well in Araby

We stand in the midst of a new round of Israel-bashing called by the organizers of "Israel Apartheid Week." Those doing the bashing are busy turning logic on its head. For them, up is down, day is night, and right is wrong. The collected ha...

November 22, 2009

If I Forget Thee O Jerusalem

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was ordered by the Obama apparatchiks to express displeasure at the decision by Israel to build houses in the East Jerusalem suburb of Gilo. But Gibbs failed to disclose that the land on which Gilo was built, as wit...

October 2, 2009

In every generation

Not one alone has arisen against us to destroy the Jews. Rather in each generation, there are those that rise up against us to destroy us. These chilling and prophetic words have been told and retold for untold generations as Jews celebrate the great...

September 15, 2009

Wrong use of the 'P word'

Throughout the Arab, and most of the Muslim world, the territory between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea is called Palestine while the name, Israel, is blotted out.The so-called moderate wing of the Palestinian Authority displays a wall ma...

August 14, 2009

Obama bulldozing Israel's future

President Obama is demonstrating an alarming hostility toward the Jewish state and has gone out of his way to describe Israeli homes in Judea and Samaria and in parts of Jerusalem, as "illegitimate."     The British gove...

May 15, 2009

A Two State Solution - on both sides of the River Jordan

The phrase "Two State Solution" has been embraced by politicians and journalists alike, repeated endlessly, and touted as the panacea for a "just and equitable" solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.It has assumed the r...

April 28, 2009

Obama's Kindness to the Cruel

There is an ancient saying best summarized as: "Those who are kind to the cruel in the end will be cruel to the kind."We saw this warning vividly and sorrowfully cast aside at the Summit of All Americas as President Obama smiled and warmly ...

April 12, 2009

Today's Mad, Mad, World

The other day I happened to watch the original 1963 Stanley Kramer directed movie, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. 46 years later, that title seems frighteningly apt when looking at what the world has become. Stanley Kramer would have been har...

March 29, 2009

The Two - State Solution is 87 Years Old

In 1920, Great Britain was given the responsibility by the League of Nations to oversee the Mandate over the geographical territory known as Palestine with the express intention of reconstituting within its territory a Jewish National Home. The terri...

March 5, 2009

If Obama abandons Israel, what then?

August 15, 2005, began as a day of infamy. It ushered in a great tribulation for the Jewish state, but one forced upon it by its very own Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon.It began one day after the annual commemoration of the saddest day in the Jewish ca...

February 19, 2009

The hatred that never dies

The hatred that never dies was alive and well this last month in the streets of London. The Gaza War was notable for the horrible scenes that erupted in European and British streets. Who can forget the sight of British bobbies running for their lives...

February 1, 2009

Gaza's Rich Jewish History

The four thousand year old association of Jewish life in Gaza is little remembered in today's world. Of course people know of the biblical story of Samson being blinded by the now extinct Philistines and how he brought down the temple to their gods i...

January 14, 2009

Media and activists ignore horrors when Israel can't be blamed

Perhaps as many as 400,000 people have been killed and some two million driven from their homes since 2003. Are we talking about Gaza? No, it is Darfur and the victims are black Christians and animists in southern Sudan. The culprit? The Ar...

December 17, 2008

Arabs: If the Shoe Fits

Apparently, showing the sole of your shoe to someone in the Arab world is a sign of extreme disrespect, and throwing your shoes is even worse. Iraqi journalist, Muntadhar al-Zeidi, who was kidnapped by Arab terrorists last year, chose to show hi...

August 10, 2008

There Is No Such Thing as Making Peace

On September 10th, 1964, the Radio Times, a British magazine, quoted President Woodrow Wilson that, "Right is more precious than peace." The great humorist, Jerome K. Jerome, suggested many years before that, "... we all love peace, bu...