06/20/2020
Many Israeli media outlets hailed United Arab Emirates’ US Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba’s decision to publish an article in Yedioth Ahronoth last Friday. Otaiba’s media fans proclaimed his piece – reportedly the brainchild of former Israeli and current top Democratic Party donor Haim Saban – a testament to the friendship and friendly ties that have developed and grown between Israel and the Sunni…
06/12/2020
Donald Trump was elected four years ago because Americans wanted to save their country. Both in domestic and foreign policy, in the eighth year of Barack Obama’s presidency, America was going off the rails. At home, Obama’s identity politics were tearing the country apart. As is now graphically apparent, identity politics are not about expanding justice. They are geared towards…
06/05/2020
Scattered among the thousands of cellphone videos depicting looting and destruction in the streets of America’s greatest cities are clips of a different sort. In these short videos, we see throngs of white people on their knees, bowing before black people and asking for forgiveness for their “white privilege” and the “structural racism” in the deplorable, irredeemable United States of…
05/28/2020
The first casualty of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to form a governing coalition with left-leaning Defense Minister and Blue and White Party head Benny Gantz was Yamina. The five members of the ideological right-wing, national religious party were the odd men out. With his Likud party members braying for senior ministries, Netanyahu was unable to satisfy Yamina’s demands. But…
05/22/2020
Tuesday evening, Palestinian Authority and PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced that the PA is renouncing the peace deals it signed with Israel along with its agreements with the United States. According to several left-leaning Israeli television commentators and retired generals, his speech was an earthquake. It was a calamity of epic proportions. Most importantly, it was a reason to…
05/19/2020
Should Jordan’s King Abdullah have veto power over Israel’s plan to apply its sovereign laws to its cities, towns and villages in Judea and Samaria and to the Jordan Valley, in accordance with the Trump peace plan? Monday morning, senior leaders of the Blue and White party began making noises to that effect. In an interview with Germany’s Der…
05/17/2020
In the coming months, Israel is expected to apply its civilian law and administration to the 30 percent of Judea and Samaria (or the “West Bank”) that President Donald Trump’s recently unveiled peace plan anticipates remaining with Israel after a final peace agreement. One might expect that Israel’s plan would be hailed for advancing peace and the equal rights of…
05/15/2020
On Sunday, Saudi journalist Abdelhameed Al-Ghoban gave an interview to the BBC in Arabic. His remarks, which were translated by MEMRI, were devoid of nuance. “Today, the public is informed. There is a deluge [of opinions] against the Palestinian cause. It is no longer just public support for normalization and building ties with Israel. [Our] public has turned against the…
05/08/2020
There is a landmine on the road to Israeli sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria. It must be defused before it blows up Israel’s efforts to secure its national interests and takes President Donald Trump’s peace plan, and U.S.-Israel relations along with it. The landmine is not an actual explosive charge but the clique of unelected lawyers at…
05/08/2020
Americans considering the contents of the documents that have been released over the past several days regarding the investigation and prosecution of President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Gen. Michael Flynn are right to greet them with a mixture of anger and fear. But they should also feel lucky. To understand why, it is worth considering the parallels between…