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Baroness Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy chief, is in the Middle East this week, and Emanuele Ottolenghi says that it’s time for Ashton to stop letting the Israeli – ‘Palestinian’ dispute drive all of Europe’s other interests in the region. Read More »
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We can’t trust the ‘Palestinians’ or Europe. Can we trust the US?
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens doesn’t get everything right, but he does get a couple of important points. The conflict is existential. The expulsion from Gaza has shown what Israel is likely to get if it gives up territory in Judea and Samaria. Read More »
Is David Landau getting his wish?
Are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton trying to do what George Bush and Condi Rice wouldn’t? Read More »
CAMERA reports on Madrid’s El Pais
Two weeks ago, I reported on anti-Semitism in Spain. One of the reasons that may be behind that anti-Semitism is the extreme anti-Israel bias of the Spanish media. CAMERA reports on the anti-Israel bias at Madrid’s El Pais, Spain’s largest newspaper. Read More »
When the shoe was on the other foot
The fact that the overwhelming majority of those members of Congress coming out to support Israel are Republicans is not a good sign. Once upon a time, Israel was a bi-partisan issue. Jennifer Rubin takes us back to the good old days. Read More »
Boehner, McCain slam Obama
House Minority leader John Boehner (R-Oh.) has slammed the Obama administration for its treatment of Israel (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). “The administration has demonstrated a repeated pattern since it took office: while it makes concessions to countries acting contrary to U.S. national interests,” Boehner (R-Ohio) said in his statement. Read More »
Mr. Mitchell stays home
US Special Middle East envoy George Mitchell is not coming to Israel today (Tuesday) as planned. US Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell has decided to postpone his visit to the region, the US embassy informed the President’s Office on Tuesday.The meeting between President Shimon Peres and Mitchell will therefore be postponed. Read More »
Kadima: ‘We’d also build in Jerusalem’
The Obama administration may be dreaming of having a Kadima-led government replace Netanyahu. But if they think that it’s going to change anything, they’re wrong, at least when it comes to building in Jerusalem. Yes, Kadima would build in Ramat Shlomo too. Read More »
Can this marriage be saved?
The State Department announced on Monday that Israel is still a ’strategic ally.’ Israel remains a strategic ally of the United States, the US State Department reaffirmed Monday amid a dispute over Israeli plans to build settler homes in east Jerusalem. What does that mean?Well, let’s compare it to a married couple. Read More »
Putting principle over party
Jennifer Rubin quips that it will be interesting to see which Democrats put principle above party loyalty, and promptly shows us two who have, Representative Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) and Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.). Lieberman is nominally Independent, but caucuses with the Democrats.Jennifer has several more reactions to the current crisis. Read More »
Smart diplomacy?
John Podhoretz tries to find a rationale for the Obama administration’s attack on Israel. And here’s where we get to the bewildering part. The Obama administration had made its point. Op-eds bloomed all over, well before Hillary’s phone call, denouncing Israel for its maltreatment of Biden. Israel was on the defensive. Read More »
‘Palestinians’ threaten new ‘intifada’
What the West doesn’t chooses not to understand about the ‘Palestinians’ is that even those ‘Palestinians’ who are supposedly committed to a ‘negotiated’ solution, maintain ‘resistance’ (i.e. terror) as an option if they don’t get their way. Read More »
Jewish love affair with Democrats ending?
Roger Simon suggests that the Jewish love affair with the Democratic party may be coming to an end as a result of the Obama administration’s callous treatment of Israel. Is the Jewish love affair with the Democratic Party about to end? I know many will be skeptical. And they should be. But I suspect something is brewing. Read More »
Obama gets with the regime change program
Nine months after the Iranian revolution took to the streets, President Obama suddenly seems to understand that regime change is necessary. There’s only one small problem. Obama seems to want to apply regime change to Israel and not to Iran. Read More »
Herzl no, Arafat yes
You have to wonder why we invited him. slighted Israel by refusing the customary diplomatic visit to Mount Herzl and the gravesite of Theodore Herzl, but during his visit to Ramallah, he is scheduled to visit Yasser Arafat’s grave. Read More »
Overnight music video
Tonight is Rosh Chodesh, the first night of the Jewish month of Nissan. Tomorrow morning, we will say the Hallel prayer in synagogue. So here’s Avraham Fried singing Ana Hashem (please God) from the Hallel prayer.I have a good story about this particular song, but this isn’t the time of year for it. Read More »
Remember real hope and change?
This billboard comes to you from I-94 in Minnesota.More details here. Read More »
Netanyahu: ‘Construction in Jerusalem will continue’
In response to a question from MK Tzipi Hotovely, Prime Minister Netanyahu told the Likud faction on Monday that construction in Jerusalem will continue. “Construction in Jerusalem will continue in any part of the city as it has during the last 42 years,” Netanyahu stressed at the Likud faction meeting. Read More »
Cantor blasts Obama’s treatment of Israel
House Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) blasted President Obama’s treatment of Israel. Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) in the U.S. House of Representatives blasted the Obama administration’s criticism of Israel over its plans to construct 1,600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo, Jerusalem. Read More »
Rosner’s question and answer session
Shmuel Rosner has eight short questions and answers on the current crisis between Israel and the United States. His answers look pretty much on the money to me. And it won’t take you more than three minutes to read (unless you follow his links) so read the whole thing. Read More »
Wall Street Journal blasts Obami on Israel
In an editorial on Monday, the Wall Street Journal blasted the Obama administration’s behavior toward Israel over the weekend (Hat Tip: Memeorandum). The subsequent escalation by Mrs. Clinton was clearly intended as a highly public rebuke to the Israelis, but its political and strategic logic is puzzling. The U.S. Read More »
Another suspicious Iranian ship
Hmmm. Yemen’s security forces have detained an Iranian ship in Yemeni coastal waters off the island of Socotra because of suspicions about its cargo, and the crew are under investigation, state media said on Monday.The ship, which state media said had entered Yemeni waters illegally, was held after fishermen reported its presence to authorities. Read More »
Israel issues 500-page report to refute Goldstone
Israel has issued a 500-page report that refutes many of the allegations in the Goldstone Report. Known as the Malam Report, Israel’s report uses declassified videos, interviews with terrorists and Hamas planning documents to show how Hamas used civilians (including children), mosques and hospitals as part of its war effort. Read More »
Why did Obama and Clinton escalate the crisis?
One thing that is clear to just about everyone here is that the crisis in relations with the US had come to an end on Thursday and the Obama administration – the President and his Secretary of State – chose to escalate it on Friday afternoon with Clinton’s phone call to Obama. Why? David Horovitz takes a shot. Read More »
Another pro-Israel Republican candidate
Jennifer Rubin had an email from another Republican campaign: Florida’s Marco Rubio. A spokesman for Marco Rubio e-mails me, “Mr. Read More »
Ramat Shlomo and the prospects for peace
I understand why the ‘Palestinians’ and their Arab patrons are making such a big deal out of Ramat Shlomo. Since they have no interest in peace and only want to destroy the Jewish state, their actions make sense. Read More »
What will Petraeus tell the Senators?
US General David Petraeus has been a big topic of conversation on this blog since Sunday. A lot of people have expressed doubt whether Petraeus said what former Arafat aide Mark Perry claimed he said in the article I blogged at that link. Read More »
Israel tries to calm the storm, Obami keep ranting and raving
Israel and its allies in Washington are trying to calm the storm over last Tuesday’s announcement of 1,600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo. And the Obami (with apologies to Jennifer Rubin from whom I’m stealing the term) are continuing to fan the flames. Read More »
Netanyahu criticized for skipping Churva re-dedication
MK Dr. Michael Ben Ari (National Union) has criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu for skipping the Churva synagogue re-dedication. MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari said at a Sefer Torah inauguration at the “Churva” synagogue in the Old City that, “Netanyahu has broken the national backbone and brings about the division of Jerusalem. Read More »
What Israel could use right now
In an earlier post, I noted the isolation that we’re feeling here in Israel right now. Interestingly, this weekend I read the chapter in Daniel Gordis’ Saving Israel called A Nation that Dwells Alone. Pure coincidence, but it really drove the point home.A lot of you are probably wondering what you can do for Israel right now. Read More »