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UN Secretary-General weighs lumping Israel in with ISIS and Al Qaeda

This week Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz have posed a challenge for would-be presidents and all Americans: if the United Nations criminalizes Israel’s exercise of the right of self-defense it will pay a heavy price. The organization has no…

‘Angel of Peace’: How the media failed Pope 101

They say the devil is in the details, but even if it’s an “angel,” many in the media don’t get it right. When Pope Francis met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas on May 16, he urged Abbas to be…

Boehner playing dangerous game by mixing Israel, race

Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) trip to Israel this week is so blatantly political that even the avowedly impartial Associated Press describes it as looking “like a jab at the White House.” It is worse than that. President Obama can jab…

Netanyahu Changes Stance On Opposition To Two State Solution

“I haven’t changed my policy,” newly reelected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his first interview since the election. “What has changed is the reality. I don’t want a one-state solution; I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but…

Top violator of women’s rights around the world? It’s Israel says UN

Guess who is the number one violator of women’s rights in the world today? Israel. Violating the rights of Palestinian women. At least that is the view of the UN’s top women’s rights body, the Commission on the Status of…

Palestinians buck US, put UN resolution before Security Council demanding Israel withdraw from West Bank

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pressed the resolution despite US opposition. (AP Photo/Luis Romero) Arab nations backed Palestinians Wednesday, putting a resolution before the UN Security Council Wednesday that would demand an Israeli pullout from the West Bank and East Jerusalem…

Gaza Strip conflict: Time to face the ugly truth — the UN encourages terrorism

As the terrorist organization Hamas breaks yet another ceasefire, it operates with the firm belief that it will be protected on the international stage. That’s because the modern United Nations has become an instrument of war, just seven decades after…

The risks of Israel’s Gaza incursion

While Israel has demonstrated enormous strategic patience with Hamas’ over 1,500 rocket attacks which sent some two-thirds of Israelis into bomb shelters, the potential cost to Israel of even a limited ground incursion in northern Gaza — the death of…

A dramatic shift in Middle East alliances: Egypt, Israel and Hamas

Egypt’s initial failed effort to mediate an end to the latest confrontation between Israel and Hamas reflects a dramatic shift in Middle Eastern alliances since the last eruption of intense violence between Palestinians and Israelis, the third in nearly six…

Israel crisis: Obama’s obscene moral relativism

As Palestinian terror dramatically escalates, the Obama administration is working hard – not to defeat the terrorists, but to tie Israel’s hands behind its back. Sure, there is background noise paying lip-service to an Israeli right of self-defense and babbling…