There is something surreal about the coverage of developments this week at the UN. The general tenor is akin to the showdown at the OK Corral. Either the Palestinians win recognition of statehood, or they don’t. If they do, they win. If they don’t, Israel wins. The problem with this message is that even if the Palestinians don’t receive…
Watch the amazing interview below with Dakota Meyer, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor last week for unbelievable heroism in battle in Afghanistan. It made me cry for two reasons. First, because his heroism is so awesome. And second because this sort of thing is inevitable when governments don’t want to win wars. The officers at the…
Speaking Sunday at the UN’s conference of donors to the Palestinian Authority, Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon warned that while Israel supports economic assistance to the PA now, that is liable to change within the week. As he put it, “Future assistance and cooperation could be severely and irreparably compromised if the Palestinian leadership continues on its path of…
This week on the Tribal Update, the weekly satirical newscast produced by Latma, the Hebrew-language, satirical media criticism website I run, we bring you and interview with Egyptian Field Marshal Tantawi, the head of the ruling military junta who our intrepid reporters tracked down during last weekend’s mob assault on the Israeli embassy in Cairo. We also bring you…
If nothing else, the Palestinians’ UN statehood gambit goes a long way towards revealing the deep-seated European and US pathologies that enable and prolong the Palestinian conflict with Israel. In a nutshell, the Palestinian Authority – or Fatah – or PLO initiative of asking the UN Security Council and the General Assembly to upgrade its status to that of…
In response to my post yesterday reporting the Jerusalem Post/Reuters article outlining how the Israel Project and J Street have been encouraging Congress to maintain aid to the Palestinian Authority even after they abandon the pretense of wanting peace with Israel by asking the UN to recognize a Palestinian state outside the framework of a negotiated settlement, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi,…
The Israel Project was the brainchild of a lot of very wealthy Jewish philanthropists who decided rightly, that there was a pressing need for a professional operation in Washington capable of getting out the truth about Israel to a hostile media. Millions upon millions of dollars have been lavished on this project. And what do we see from this?…
As I expected, Pamela Geller is all over the anti-Israel NY subway ad campaign I discussed yesterday. She submitted the ad above to CBS Outdoor/NY Transit to run on NY subway cars. Go to Atlas Shrugs to help her finance this effort. In the event that the ad is rejected, she will sue and you are invited to…
We are able to consider the lessons of the weekend’s mob assault on the Israeli embassy in Cairo because the six Israeli security officers who were on the brink of being slaughtered were rescued at the last moment and spirited out of the country. If the Egyptian commandos hadn’t arrived on the scene at the last moment, the situation would…