P. David Hornik Feb 9th, 2012The 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 »

Dr. Michael Ledeen “It’s rather like getting a death threat on the telephone, you know. The nutjob that makes the call isn’t going to do anything, because if he were, he wouldn’t have told you about it. Read More »

Arlene KushnerIt pleases me to begin with mention of Tu B’Shvat, which starts tonight. A holiday with religious significance in the Mishnah (as the “New Year of the Trees” with regard to how years are calculated for harvest of fruit), Tu B’Shvat has Read More »

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hundreds of Israeli teachers have sent a letter to Israel’s education minister opposing school trips to Hebron.The trips are part of an Education Ministry program to take students on “heritage tours” in the West Bank city. Read More »

BENJAMIN WEINTHAL , JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT 02/07/2012 Jobbik spokesman questioned Holocaust figures, said Israel was created by ‘terrorists. Read More »

David Suissa Being a weekly columnist while visiting Israel can be really stressful. Every hour or so, you get hit with a potential subject for a column. After a few days now in the Holy Land, I have no clue how to pick from this embarrassment of riches. So let’s go on a mini-tour of some of those difficult choices. Read More »

Wayne Kopping In May 2010, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg posited that the individual who packed a Nissan Pathfinder full of explosives and parked it in Times Square, was likely a homegrown American “with a political agenda who doesn’t like the health care bill or something.”Fortunately, the car bomb did not detonate. Read More »

SHARON UDASIN The Jerusalem Post http: //www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=256320 All but one of 22 Palestinian villages refuse connection to sewage line,Environmental Protection Ministry says. Read More »

Khaled Abu Toameh Fatah leaders in the West Bank announced this week that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is their only candidate for the presidential election expected to take place in May 2012. Read More »

Challah Hu Akbar | Feb 03, 2012 Last Saturday, I reported that InLightPress, a site that has run a number of articles critical of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, was hacked by the Palestinian Authority under the orders of Abbas. Read More »

Barry Rubin President Barack Obama will probably be defeated in November by people voting for the Republican candidate who will then tell their friends that they voted for Obama. For them, that will be a compromise between responding to the reality they see as opposed to being in fashion and not being called nasty names by one’s peers. Read More »

Prime Minister Netanyahu bluntly told UN Sec’y-Gen. Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday there will be no new construction freeze in Judea and Samaria.By Chana Ya’ar Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bluntly told United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday there will be no new construction freeze in Judea and Samaria. Read More »

Daniel Pipes The scourge of the twentieth century was overly-powerful governments; could the looming problem of this century be too-weak governments?The political scientist R. J. Rummel estimates, in his evocatively titled study, Death by Government (New Brunswick, N.J. Read More »

Chana Ya’ar Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is “ready to go to Ramallah” to meet with Palestinian Authority / PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and open negotiations, according to an interview published Monday night by the PA-linked Ma’an news agency. Read More »

David Wilder January 31, 2012Where are American Tax Dollars being spent?According to ForeignPolicy, in an article titled: Hard times in Hebron the United States: has spent $3. Read More »

Yoram Ettinger The discussion about the cost of a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities has added value only if it is intended to advance the attack and neutralize the potential response from Iran and its allies. Read More »

HERB KEINON Israel tells Palestinians its flexibility on territory dependent on their flexibility regarding security requirements. Read More »

The Iconoclast Florida citizen lobbyists attended a prayer breakfast yesterday at the University Club on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee. The prayer breakfast was sponsored by Christian Family Coalition (CFC). Read More »

MARTIN SHERMAN, JPOST Israel’s diplomatic reaction to recent charges that its water policy is racist exposes a preference for passivity over preemption.The politics of water in the Middle East By CourtesyWater reveals a new apartheid in the Middle East. The 450,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank use as much or more water than some 2. Read More »

Gavriel Queenann Former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi warned, Thursday, that Israel could not afford to cut its defense budget and should prepare itself for war. Read More »