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  Like it or not, the day is fast approaching when the Palestinian Authority we have known for the past 22 years will cease to exist.   PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’s US-trained Palestinian security forces have lost control over the Palestinians cities in Judea and Samaria. His EU- and US-funded bureaucracies are about to lose control over the local governments…

    According to most polls taken since last month’s party conventions, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton enjoys an insurmountable lead over Republican nominee Donald Trump. Consequently, a number of commentators on both sides of the partisan divide have declared the race over. Clinton, they say, has won.     There are several problems with this conclusion.     First…

  Major media outlets in the US have ignored the leak of thousands of emails from billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation by the activist hacker group DCLeaks. The OSF is the vehicle through which Soros has funneled billions of dollars over the past two decades to non-profit organizations in the US and throughout the world.     According to…

  In a surprise move last month, Hamas announced it will be participating in the Palestinian municipal elections in October. The Palestinian Authority’s Fatah leadership greeted Hamas’s announcement with deep and understandable anxiety. Hamas is expected to win control over a significant number, perhaps even a majority of municipal and local governments in Judea and Samaria. PA leader Mahmoud Abbas,…

    Over the weekend, the Iranian regime unexpectedly announced it executed its former nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri.     As reports of Amiri’s demise make clear, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton may very well be partially to blame for his death.     Amiri spent several months in the US between 2009 and 2010, when he returned to…

    Why did the Obama administration decide to escalate its attacks against Israel last week?     What was the purpose of the State Department’s shockingly hostile assault last Wednesday following the Israel Land’s Authority’s announcement that it is publishing tenders to build 323 apartment units in Jerusalem’s Gilo, Har Homa, Pisgat Zeev and Neve Yaakov neighborhoods?    …

  Next Monday, acting head of the National Security Council Brig. Gen. Jacob Nagel will sit down with his US counterpart Susan Rice and try to conclude negotiations about a new, multi-year defense assistance package.     We must all hope that he fails.     No clear Israeli interest will be advanced by concluding the aid deal presently on…

  Wednesday NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg insisted that the purge of thousands in the Turkish military – including a third of the serving generals – did not weaken the military.     Stoltenberg told Reuters, “Turkey has a large armed force, professional armed forces and…I am certain they will continue as a committed and strong NATO ally.”     It…

  Last Friday, Peter Beinart and a few dozen Jewish anti-Zionists had a marvelous time in Hebron.     They wore funny blue t-shirts and sang about “tikkun olam” in two languages. They pretended they were civil rights activists. They videotaped themselves being brave. They got shown to the door by security forces after wrecking a Palestinian farmer’s grazing land…

  It was an ironic coincidence that the same day the Knesset passed the updated, watered down NGO law, the US Senate Permanent Select Committee on Investigations published its final report on the Obama administration’s use of an Israeli registered NGO to run a campaign to bring down Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the 2015 elections.     Hours after…