07/03/2014
Go into any Jewish community in the United States these days and spend a few hours talking to people. At a certain point in the conversation, at least one person will bring up Ari Shavit’s bestselling book, My Promised Land. Mention of the book will arouse great enthusiasm. Invariably, a prominent member of the group will say, with…
07/03/2014
The David Horowitz Freedom Center posted the video and transcript of a speech I gave in Dallas in early May — right after John Kerry said Israel was going to become an Apartheid state and Martin Indyk threatened us with national destruction. -Caroline Glick It’s amazing. You know, the Peace Process fell apart over the past six weeks.…
07/02/2014
Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel were teenagers. They were abducted and brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists from Hamas, a partner in the Palestinian Authority’s unity government, and a terrorist organization dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people. The teens’ abduction and murder was supported by Palestinian society as a whole. While Israelis were…
06/30/2014
If you can get past Haaretz’s trademark anti-Israel bias, the article below substantiates my argument in The Israeli Solution that the integrationist trend among the Arabs of Jerusalem and Israel has positive strategic implications for Israel and must be used as a template for the extension of Israeli law to Judea and Samaria. The article below also states,…
Three families in Israel are in agony. On June 12, when their sons Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gil-Ad Shaer were kidnapped by Islamic savages, the Fraenkels, Yifrahs and Shaers entered a new world where every breath they take is filled with devastating guilt – that they breathe free while their sons suffer unknown miseries. Every moment that passes…
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. …
For most Westerners, Turkey is a hard nut to crack. How can you understand a state sponsor of terrorism that is also a member of NATO? How can you explain Turkey’s facilitation of Kurdish independence in Iraq in light of Turkey’s hundred-year opposition to Kurdish independence? What is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyep Erdogan trying to…
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…
06/20/2014
Watching the undoing, in a week, of victories that US forces won in Iraq at great cost over many years, Americans are asking themselves what, if anything, should be done. What can prevent the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – the al-Qaida offshoot that President Barack Obama derided just months ago as a bunch of amateurs…