06/26/2014
Four years ago I participated in the Aspen Counterpoint Conference in Aspen, Colorado. I gave an address there about the information war being waged against Israel. The folks in Aspen just posted my speech and I just watched it. Although some of the things I discussed are now dated, all in all, I think most of it remains relevant. …
06/20/2014
The main guarantor of Israel’s Jewish majority has always been aliyah. Today, Jewish birthrates in Israel are higher than Arab birthrates in Judea and Samaria. They are converging with Arab Israeli birthrates. According to the latest data from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, whereas in 1985 Jewish births made up 69% of the total births in Israel, in 2013, Jewish…
06/20/2014
The article linked below, by Pinchas Inbari from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs discusses the massive demographic shifts taking place in surrounding Arab states and how those shifts are changing the face of the region, presenting Israel with new threats and new opportunities. Inbari also mentions the mass emigration of Palestinians from Judea and Samaria and the potential for…
06/17/2014
Three Jewish boys were abducted by Palestinian terrorists while trying to catch a ride home from school Thursday night. And as far as the foreign press is concerned, it’s their own damned fault. As Honest Reporting documented, everyone from The Guardian to CNN, to Sky News to the Christian Science Monitor blamed Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali…
06/17/2014
Barbarians. Savages….and the recipients of $500 million a year in US taxdollars — including military training. -Caroline Glick See more images here
06/13/2014
The Middle East is rapidly changing. Indeed, it is convulsing. After generations of stasis, where strong, despotic central governments ruled with an iron fist and everyone knew who he was and who he was not, today everything – borders, regimes, identities – is in flux. Take Iraq. Last week, residents of Mosul lived under Iraqi government control. On Tuesday,…
06/12/2014
The conversation in Israel has moved past the 2-state nonsense. The discourse now revolves around how much of Judea and Samaria Israel needs to retain in perpetuity. On the Left, Yair Lapid and Michael Oren want to keep maybe 10-20%. On the Right opinions vary between Naftali Bennett’s plan of applying Israeli law to Area C – around 60% to…
06/11/2014
For nearly six years, Obama and his supporters have managed to fend off allegations that his foreign policy is even more ideological – and far more radical – than Bush’s by channeling the public’s aversion to pie-in-the-sky rhetoric and obfuscating facts. US President Barack Obama is an artist of political propaganda. Both his greatest admirers and his most vociferous…
06/10/2014
I find the interview below with former US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford extraordinary. I cannot recall a similar instance of a senior Obama administration official attacking Obama’s foreign policy in this way. -Caroline Glick Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford: I could no longer ‘defend the American policy’ By Mick Krever Originally published at CNN.com …
06/05/2014
By Natasha Mozgovaya Originally published by Haaretz.com Arab residents of East Jerusalem are divided on whether they would want Israeli or Palestinian citizenship should a future Palestinian state be created, suggests a new poll released on Wednesday in Washington. The survey, conducted by Pechter Middle East Polls in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations, asked a simple…