Last Thursday, yet again, we learned that pro-Palestinian activists couldn’t care less about Palestinians. For them, the Palestinians whose rights they claim to champion are nothing more than means to another end.   Our latest lesson came from the University of Chicago.   Last week, Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid was abused and threatened by supposedly pro-Palestinian and pro-peace…

    Recently I found myself in a  chance conversation with a former head of the Mossad’s Directorate of Operations. The former master spy, whom I had never met before, knew that I am a journalist.   He was aware of my political views.   Directing his remarks at a friend of mine, he declared that 99 percent of Mossad and…

  This week Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told government ministers that he may wait for the next US president before signing a new military assistance deal with America. Israel’s current military assistance package is set to expire in 2018 and the new package is supposed to include supplemental aid to compensate Israel for President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.…

  Last week marked the 17th anniversary of Jordan’s King Abdullah’s coronation after the death of his father, King Hussein.   Abdullah’s ascension to the monarchy was unanticipated. His uncle Hassan was his father’s long-serving crown prince and was expected to inherit the throne. Hussein made the change in succession from his deathbed.   Today it is hard to believe…

  On Wednesday the US media interrupted its saturation coverage of the presidential primaries to report on President Barack Obama’s visit to a mosque in Maryland. The visit was Obama’s first public one to a mosque in the US since entering the White House seven years ago. The mosque Obama chose to visit demonstrated once again that his views of…

  Amjad Sakari made no effort to hide his feelings and intentions toward Israel. The soldier in the Palestinian security forces filled his Facebook page with paeans to Saddam Hussein.   Last weekend he published two posts indicating his imminent plan to carry out a terrorist attack.   In other words, if the Palestinian Authority forces he served had been…

  Our government is playing games with itself. And losing.   On Wednesday Chaim Levinson reported in Haaretz that for the first time in nearly two years, last week the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria approved new building plans for a small number of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.   Levinson also reported that last month Jerusalem’s municipal…

  Under President Barack Obama, the United States has been fundamentally transformed. From the land of the free and the home of the brave, seven years into the Obama presidency, America acts like the land of the overregulated and the home of the risk averse.   In the Middle East, the new America is treacherous, and pathetic. It is despised…

  “I’m proud of him.”   That’s what the father of Dafna Meir’s murderer said when the Palestinian media asked him what he thinks of his cold-blooded son Murad Adais.   On Sunday afternoon, Adais butchered Meir in her home, in front of her children.   Whether Adais Sr. is really happy that his son will rot in prison is…

  Israeli Air Force commanders are reportedly deeply worried about Russia’s military presence in Syria.   When Russian President Vladimir Putin deployed his forces to Syria last year, he claimed that the deployment would be brief. Russian forces were placed in Syria, Putin said, to protect Assad and would leave once he was able to defend himself.   Last week,…