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Weekly Quotes “When I was overseas…I kept remembering one verse: ‘Chazak Chazak v’Nitchazek.’ [Be strong, be strong, and may we be strengthened].… We need that strength every day of the year. We’re undergoing a great struggle but we also have some great achievements. Forty-four years ago, Israel’s soldiers fulfilled the vision […]
“We’re sitting right now on the ridge and we’re seeing the Old City. Shortly we’re going to go in to the Old City of Jerusalem, that all generations have dreamed about. We will be the first to enter the Old City.… The Temple Mount is in our hands! I repeat, the Temple […]
LESSONS OF NETANYAHU’S TRIUMPH Caroline B. Glick Jerusalem Post, May 27, 2011 Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was hoping to avoid his clash with US President Barack Obama [last] week in Washington. Four days before his showdown at the White House with the American leader, Netanyahu addressed the Knesset. His speech was […]
Last Friday, US President Barack Obama announced that “the long war in Iraq will come to an end by the end of this year,” marking the conclusion of a nearly 9-year war that cost the U.S more than 4,400 lives, more than 33,000 injured servicemen and servicewomen, and upwards of one trillion dollars. As the […]
BOOK EXCERPT: AMONG THE TRUTHERS— THE ENDURING INFLUENCE OF THE PROTOCOLS OF ZION Jonathan Kay National Post, May 10, 2011 In August, 1897, Theodor Herzl and two hundred fellow activists convened at a concert hall in Basel, Switzerland, to attend the First Zionist Congress. The capstone of their deliberations was The […]
IRAQTHREAT ASSESSMENT: THE DANGERS TO THE UNITED STATES, IRAQ, AND MIDEAST STABILITY OF ABANDONING IRAQ AT THE END OF 2011 Frederick W. Kagan The Critical Threats Project Of The American Enterprise Institute, May 2011 Iraqis live in a tough region. Although none of their neighbours have been designing military forces specifically […]
AN ANTI-ISRAEL PRESIDENT Bret Stephens Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2011 Say what you will about President Obama’s approach to Israel—or of his relationship with American Jews—he sure has mastered the concept of chutzpah. [Last] Thursday at the State Department, the president gave his big speech on the Middle East, in […]
PRESIDENT OBAMA, THE ‘WINDS OF CHANGE,’ AND MIDDLE EAST PEACE Robert Satloff Washington Institute for Near East Policy, May 19, 2011 President Obama…sketch[ed] out a new paradigm for U.S. engagement with the Middle East in his State Department “winds of change” speech this afternoon, in which he raised the goal of […]
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY IDEOLOGY AND EDUCATION Itamar Marcus & Harel Zioni Palestinian Media Watch, May 18, 2011 On the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of Israel’s independence, Palestinian Media Watch has prepared a comprehensive report describing how the establishment of the state [of Israel] […]
THE MIDEAST TAKES CENTER STAGE IN WASHINGTON Rick Moran FrontPage Blog, May 17, 2011 Despite what promises to be a big week for Middle East diplomacy at the White House, President Obama appears nearly oblivious to the mortal threats facing Israel and the U.S., which have only increased in the wake […]
ENDLESS CATASTROPHE Editorial Jerusalem Post, May 15, 2011 ‘Nakba Day” has expanded into “Nakba weekend,” and judging from the potential diplomatic and military fallout in the wake of the turmoil in the north, now threatens to occupy our attention for days to come. But while the developments in Majdal Shams and […]
ISLAMISTS TRIUMPH IN TUNISIA Jacob Laksin FrontPage, October 25, 2011 The “Arab Spring,” the regional upheaval that swept Tunisia, Egypt and Libya over the past year, was supposed to mark the beginning of a new, more democratic Arab world. But if this week’s election results from Tunisia, the birthplace of the Arab Spring, are any […]
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