The results of yet another Palestinian opinion poll show that a very sizable portion of that public would still vote Hamas if elections were held today. Many commentators and Western leaders say that means Hamas is an inescapable reality and must be engaged, not isolated. They are wrong. Continue reading »

We all know that a large bulk of US taxpayers’ dollars sent to the Palestinian Authority ultimately go to finance acts of terrorism against Israelis. But the Palestinians say that even with the cash, in the absence of US military training, they could have never killed so many Israelis over the past seven years. Continue reading »

While child sacrifice is not exactly condoned in Islam per se, Palestinian Muslim terrorists regularly send young, impressionable children to their deaths in service to Allah’s cause of eradicating the Jewish cancer from the Middle East. Continue reading »

The Evangelical Christian community in Israel is abuzz this week after learning that a well liked and widely respected Christian couple who have been living in the Land for 20 years have been told to leave. Continue reading »

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office confirmed this week that he is willing to offer the Palestinians joint control over the Temple Mount as part of a final status peace agreement. Doesn’t Israel first need to actually have control over the Temple Mount in order to make such an offer? Continue reading »

An Israeli news site last week quoted a Hamas leader telling a Lebanese newspaper that his group plans to declare independence in the Gaza Strip*. The Israeli site posted a follow-up analysis that noted with a certain degree of fascination that if the declaration takes place, it would mark the first time a full-fledge terrorist organization had become a government in charge of a territorial entity. Continue reading »

That is the kind of headline I expect to see on all those anti-Semitic websites hiding behind the mask of being critical of Israel when they read the news that Israeli scientists have discovered how to erase long-term memory.

It just fits so well with all those “the Jews are trying to secretly rule the world” conspiracies. Continue reading »

We all know that the peace between Israel and Egypt is cold at best. But even the peace between Israel and Jordan, which is often held up as a model for Israeli-Arab coexistence, is a worthless scrap of paper whose success is entirely dependent the temperament of the king in Amman. Continue reading »

This weekend we watched The Last King of Scotland, and as the movie ended it reminded me that Israel used to defend its people with a level of courage, daring and zeal that I can only call “biblical.” Continue reading »

Is the growing apathy apparent in both the US and Israel in the face of mounting threats further evidence that we are very close to the end of the present age described in the Bible? Continue reading »