March 1, 2013

Obama's choices

As the dreaded Sequester begins, we are in an age of trade-offs. Consider this shocking number: Housing 500 Federal Prisoners for five days is the same as operating Air Force One for just one hour. Here are the numbers: Operating AF1 per hour was $1...

September 16, 2012

Why Obama Shunned Bibi

U.S. President Barack Obama's dramatic refusal to meet with PM Benjamin Netanyahu when Netanyahu visits the U.S. at the end of the month is a psychological minefield.  Obama's people claim that the refusal is just a scheduling problem.  But...

August 5, 2012

No Logical Solution

Two logical frameworks govern world politics.  Every country has an imperative for self-preservation.  Every country also has an imperative to maintain sound and fruitful relations with other countries. The Zionist Movement and the State of...

July 22, 2012

Palestinian Perfidy

In his famous speech at Bar Ilan University in June 2009, Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed for the first time in his political career to the establishment of a Palestinian state.  He made two conditions: that the Palestinian state be demilitarize...

May 22, 2012

Afghanistan: Chronicle of a Conundrum

Afghanistan has been an international conundrum since 1979, when the USSR invaded the country.  The military and other conflicts in Afghanistan have known numerous twists, turns, and permutations since then.  The most recent episode, howeve...

April 11, 2012

Arab Riots, Then and Now

On March 30 in Israel, Arab anti-Israel demonstrations turned violent, and the security forces had to suppress the violence with crowd control measures.  Dozens of Palestinians were hurt in the West Bank and Gaza Strip while marking Land Day pro...

February 19, 2012

Hatred versus Occupation

The most rudimentary analysis of the Palestinian Authority's position on Israel leads to only one conclusion -- the most influential element in the Palestinian Authority attitude toward Israel and to the Jewish people is blind hatred.  Hatred mo...

January 22, 2012

Understanding Islamofascism

The exact identity of the person who coined the expression "Islamofascism" isn't crystal-clear.  But the late Christopher Hitchens should be given credit for defining the term. The most obvious points of comparison would be these: Both moveme...

December 22, 2011

On the Holiness of Jerusalem in Judaism and in Islam

For 3,000 years, the eternal city of Jerusalem has held the most exalted position in the Jewish religion and a place of unparalleled importance in Jewish life and history. First and foremost, King Solomon built the first Holy Temple in Jerusalem betw...

November 12, 2011

What If Hamas Wins Again?

A flurry of activity in the Palestinian camp raises the possibility that elections for the Palestinian Authority will be held in the spring.  President Abbas is planning to meet with Hamas political boss Khaled Mashal to discuss the elections. ...

August 21, 2011

Lies Lead to Murder: The New York Times and the Crown Heights Riots

The riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in the summer of 1991, started after a Hasidic Jewish man accidentally swerved his car onto a sidewalk and fatally injured a black youngster named Gavin Cato.  Claiming that the Jews were receiving preferent...

July 24, 2011

The Palestinians Are Bluffing

The Palestinian Authority has been agitating to become a U.N. member-state for two years.  It appears they have secured the support of a majority of other member-states in the General Assembly to achieve U.N. recognition as a state.  But th...

July 24, 2011

Israel Is Not Being Delegitimized

On July 21, the Jerusalem-based Jewish People's Policy Institute (JPPI) posted an article by Brig. Gen. (ret.) Michael Herzog entitled "Don't Underestimate the Delegitimization of Israel." I strongly disagree with Brig. Gen. Herzog's ideas on the sub...

July 7, 2011

After The Palestinians Declare Statehood

Pinhas Inbari's important essay, "What Are The Palestinians Planning After September?," appears on the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs website In a nutshell, Inbari's thesis is that "what the Palestinians really envisage after September is to exp...

June 29, 2011

Israeli Defeatism In The Flesh

On June 24, Yossi Alpher, Colette Avital, Shlomo Gazit, and Mark Heller, published an opinion article in the pages of the New York Times entitled "Buying Into Palestinian Statehood." The instant I saw the title I said to myself that in fact the corre...

May 29, 2011

Israel's 1967 Borders: What's The Big Fuss?

The place to begin an examination of Israel's 1967 borders is the 1947 UN Partition plan. In 1947, Great Britain relinquished to the UN the power to make decisions relating to the status of the Land of Israel. The General Assembly appointed a special...

May 15, 2011

The Big Lie Called Nakba Day

A prime example of Palestinian brazen malicious deceit against Israel is their so-called "Day of Catastrophe" or Nakba Day. Apparently the first Arab to coin this meretricious concept was Syrian historian Constantine Zureiq in his 1948 book...

May 1, 2011

After a Palestinian Unilateral Declaration of Statehood

Until Friday I believed that the Israeli government did not know what to do about the threatened Palestinian statehood declaration in the UN and was doing nothing. However, an article in the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot (not available online) rev...