Rabin's yahrzeit is the time for the truth about the vision of this pragmatic leader, rather than the leftist assertion that, had he lived, he would have continued the Oslo process and split Jerusalem. Look at his face as he shakes hands with Arafat. Today, 18 years after signing the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and
The money was not used to better the lives of Palestinian Authority Arabs, of that one can be sure When I was a kid, there was a fun saying when you took a cookie before you were allowed to. We would all declaim in turn: "who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? Not
How Jewish should Israel be? Why does the West recognize that democracy must be accommodated to Arabic culture world over, but not to Judaism in Israel? A thought provoking analysis based on Prof. Paul Eidelberg's "Jewish Statesmanship". PM Netanyahu has made it clearer than ever, that the PA must recognize “Israel as the national
It is detrimental to your health to write or say anything against Islam. In Moscow they used to call it a purge. In Paris it is known as “incitement to hatred”. This is the charge against Ivan Rioufol, one of the most famous and respected columnists of the French newspaper Le Figaro, where
Sometimes you need to spend billions to unearth supreme strategic military secrets. Other times, self-intoxicated leaders let the cat out of the bag. On 3 March 1917, German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman blurted out, "I cannot deny it. It is true." Zimmerman had just admitted that as a German gambit to keep America "busy,"
Phyllis Chesler took a break from writing opeds for Arutz Sheva to write this book, just published and a must read. I would have loved to have been part of the packed audience at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan on the night of October 1st, when Professor Phyllis Chesler talked about her newly
Is it Israeli or not? Plenty of blood was shed to make it part of Israel. Israelis are afraid of Muslims in the most important piece of real estate on earth. They panic at the possibility of being involved in a real struggle for control of the Temple Mount. Instead of turning the 150,000
The drafting of the new Egyptian constitution has been making headlines since the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood rule. Several articles in the 2012 constitution are currently the subject of controversy, particularly those pertaining to the Islamic identity of Egypt, even though the representation of Islamists in the new constituent assembly has been drastically reduced in
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” ~ John Adams, “Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials”, December 1770 A serious problem Progressives (no matter which side of the aisle
Abbas is proud of his role in the Munich Massacre. Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas financed the Abu Daoud/Black September terror call to murder 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972. Read the reports, then decide. Wikipedia reports that: “As a commander of Black September, Abu Daoud was the mastermind behind the
