David Keyes ..Commentary/Contentions..09 February ’12..On Tuesday, Peter Beinart chastised American Jews for not listening more closely to Israeli soldiers. “There’s nothing American Jews love more than Israeli soldiers, except perhaps, Israeli spies,” he wrote in a piece in the Daily Beast titled “U.S. Read More »

Sarah Honig ..Another Tack..09 February ’12..By August 11, 1942, pioneer psychoanalyst Sabine Spielrein must have ditched all illusions about German civility. Read More »

Dr. Aaron Lerner ..IMRA Weekly Commentary..09 February ’12..It could not be simpler: The Palestinians claim that the Hamas-Fatah unity government that is to reunite that West Bank and Gaza Strip is committed to honor the Oslo agreements. Read More »

P. David Hornik ..frontpage.com..09 February ’12..The cruel farce known as the peace process took another downturn this week as Fatah and Hamas signed a unity agreement in Doha, Qatar.It’s not the first such agreement they’ve signed, and none of the previous instances was a smashing success. Read More »

Ma’abara housing Jewish refugees at Bet Lid, Israel, 1951 Bataween ..Point of No Return..08 February ’12.. Even the Israeli government seems to agree that it’s time to fight for the rights of Jewish refugees. Read More »

Michael Rubin ..Commentary/Contentions..09 February ’12..When I did a post-doc in Israel back in academic year 2001-2002, the Palestinian terror and bombing campaign was at its height. Hordes of Western journalists circulated through Israel on their way to the West Bank and Gaza. Read More »

Shoshana Bryen ..pjmedia.com..09 February ’12.. Iran makes threats, the U.S. gets blamed for “saber-rattling.” Israel is often in this position. Its enemies threaten it in unacceptable ways or commit acts of violence just under some unspoken-but-very-real threshold of tolerance (not Israel’s threshold, mind you, but that of the U.S. Read More »

David M. Weinberg ..A Citadel Defending Zion..09 February ’12..The Palestinians keep telling us and insisting to every international interlocutor that they are ready for statehood, and supposedly this means a Palestinian state at peace with Israel.Well, I wonder – on both accounts. Read More »

Michael Freund ..Fundamentally Freund..Jpost..09 February ’12.. The Land of Israel is a living curriculum, with a wide array of sites that impart our people’s story and evoke pride in its very special saga. Read More »

Jonathan S. Tobin ..Commentary/Contentions..08 February ’12..Some staffers and diplomats at the State Department with time on their hands are, no doubt, working hard right now to come up with a legal rationale for continuing U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority. Read More »

Petra Marquadt-Bigman ..The Warped Mirror..09 February ’12..After hackers managed to obtain access to the e-mails of some high-ranking officials at the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Ha’aretz got hold of some of the mails and posted them together with relevant background information. Read More »

Fresnozionism.org ..08 February ’12..I’ve dumped on the New Israel Fund (NIF) before. But there are still those who think it is a progressive organization that funds initiatives to make Israel more democratic, to improve the treatment of women and Arab citizens, to increase tolerance of non-Orthodox streams of Judaism in Israel, etc. Read More »

Yisrael Medad/Eli Pollak ..Media Comment/JPost..08 February ’12..The truth is that Galatz today is a luxury that Israel can do without. Read More »

Leo Rennert ..American Thinker..08 February ’12..The Feb. 7 editorial page of the Washington Post features a letter from reader Joanne Heisel, who castigates Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for supposedly approving housing subsidies for 70 settlements in the West Bank. Read More »

Simon Plosker ..Honest Reporting/Backspin..08 February ’12..The Financial Times has been a long-time cheerleader for supposed Hamas “moderation”, blaming settlements for the impasse in the moribund peace process. This trend continues in the FT’s latest editorial . Read More »

Richard Cohen ..Washington Post/Opinion..07 February ’12..There are three red lines when it comes to Iran’s nuclear program. The first is the moment when Iran tunnels so deeply underground that Israeli bombs will be incapable of doing real damage. Read More »

Adam Levick ..CiF Watch07 February ’12..The book, “Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s most important newspaper “, written by Laurel Leff, is an in-depth look at how The NYT failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939-1945. Read More »

Jonathan D. Halevi ..Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Blog..08 February ’12..On February 6, 2012, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal signed a new agreement to create a Palestinian national unity government for the West Bank and Gaza. Read More »

myisraelHE ..05 Feb ’12.. (Expressed as clearly, succinctly, and respectfully, as possible. If you agree, please share this important video. Yosef ) Naftali Bennett, a former Chief of Staff to Benjamin Netanyahu, urges President Obama’s administration to either stop Iran, or let Israel do the job. Read More »

Fresnozionism.org ..07 February ’12..News item (WAFA is the official news agency of the Palestinian Authority): JERUSALEM, February 7, 2012 (WAFA) – The European Union and Sweden Tuesday contributed €24. Read More »