“We never had, don’t have and will never have nuclear weapons. This doesn’t mean that if someone decided to use such weapons against us, we wouldn’t use them first.” Reportedly by Moshe Dayan*. The above is an elegant (in an uncouth military way) prelude to the subject raised twice in [Read More]
Netanyahu’s trip to Sochi to meet Putin and to persuade him that Iranian corridor to Mediterranean is not a good idea, doesn’t seem to be a great success story. The Russian version of that same article in Pravda is titled: “Netanyahu’s Fiasco in Sochi…“. For the English version the Pravda’s [Read More]
President Trump and Jared Kushner have actually made some progress towards achieving a Mideast peace agreement between Israel and the PLO. The progress mainly consists of shifting the entire context around. I still ultimately doubt it will be successful as long as The PLO/Fatah and Hamas are involved, but just [Read More]
Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee finally took a major step in penalizing Palestine’s blood money, it’s knowing and enthusiastic financing of terrorism. The committee voted 17-4 to send the Taylor Force Act to the full senate for a vote, where it will undoubtedly pass. The bill, named after an [Read More]
Recent events continue show exactly why the peace process in the Middle East is dead on arrival right now, at least where Israel and the Palestinian authority is concerned. The Jerusalem Temple Mount crisis is the latest example of Mahmoud Abbas’s destructive tactics in attempting to sabotage it and stay [Read More]
There’s a fair amount of attempts among the usual suspects to present Islam as a religion of peace in defiance of all the evidence to the contrary. While there are quite a few Muslims who are peaceful and decent people, that would likely be the case no matter what faith [Read More]
President Trump came into office with the idea of succeeding where other presidents had failed. His goal was to forge a comprehensive Mideast peace process that would both end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and create a bloc between the most powerful Sunni States of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Emirates (and [Read More]
Discussing the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting the Jewish state, Ambassador Dani Dayan, Israel’s Consul General in New York, declared that the “real war” is the intimidation, disruption and attempted silencing of pro-Israel voices on U.S. college campuses. “There we have a real war,” Ambassador Dayan said, [Read More]
A new book, “A History of the Palestinian People: From Ancient Times to the Modern Era,” has become the number 1 best seller on Amazon in its Israeli and Palestinian History category. Written by Israeli publicist and editor Assaf A. Voll, the book sells for $7.99. Here’s a summary of [Read More]
The past week has reinforced one of the most important rules in life and politics: Never give a Leftist an opening. Block him at every turn or you lose. Never give a Leftist an opening about Israel. As I mentioned earlier, I had the pleasure of attending the 14th Annual [Read More]
The deeply moving 14th Annual Ariel Avrech Lecture was the anchor for an inspiring weekend that cemented old friendships and introduced me to new friends. Some of you may remember that, about a week ago, I wrote a post saying that I’d be flying down to L.A. to attend the [Read More]
Today is the anniversary of a modern miracle, the Israeli victory of the Six Day War, מלחמת ששת הימים, or Milhemet Sheshet Ha Yamim in Hebrew. It saw an outnumbered Israel beat back an attempt at destruction and genocide, reunite Jerusalem, bring the strategic Golan and the historic Jewish homelands [Read More]
By Maggie Villines It is an inconvenient truth that under international law, it’s not illegal to win a territorial fight. Media rhetoric pummels hearts and minds and rallies a false cause, and the United Nations depicts the people of Israel to be a pariah, a hated “occupier,” and routinely takes [Read More]
By Scott Kirwin – Cross posted at TheRazor Last in series. Part 1. Part 2. Coming of age in the 1970s when Israel was often in the news, usually battling for its survival, I developed a strong affinity to the Jewish state even though I knew little as a Catholic [Read More]
By Scott Kirwin Cross-posted at TheRazor 2nd in a 3-part series. Part 1. Part 3. In the Machane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem at the craft beer stall the bartender’s accent gives him away. “I’m from Baltimore,” he says, and he’s lived in Israel for 7 years. I ask him what [Read More]
By Scott Kirwin – Cross posted at TheRazor First in a series. Part 2. Part 3. My first awareness of the Jews and Israel probably was typical for Catholics, the stories of the Bible told to us as children at school and church. But my first awareness of the State [Read More]
According to Israel’s Hebrew calendar, today marks the Jubilee celebration of Israel’s Six Day War and the liberation of Jerusalem. Take a good look at the three men standing there, along with Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, Dr. Yitzhak Yifat, Tzion Karasenti and Chaim Oshri. they took a tour [Read More]
The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on [Read More]
Being Jewish and being a stalwart Israel supporter, I watch a lot of videos about modern antisemitism. This may be the best I’ve ever seen. I urge you to watch it and to share it: My simplified version of the message Rabbi Sacks gives is that, throughout history, a society [Read More]
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