If Israel had not beaten Syria’s air force in its day, as it did with Syria’s army – and the Egyptian, Jordanian, Iraqi and Saudi Arabian armies, too – today Israel would not exist. And without Israel, the whole region would be in the hands of unscrupulous tyrants and radical Islamist groups whose attention would be directly aimed against us. Israel has been instrumental as our parapet. Israel will be even more instrumental in an ever radicalized area.

I see the noose tightening around Israel’s neck and the necks of the world’s Jews. The fix is in—Arab oil money can do that over a fifty- or sixty-year period. Today, Jews and Israel can do no right—even or es-pecially when that is precisely what we do—and the nations who persecute us and others can do no wrong, no matter how many genocides or other human rights atrocities they commit. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Iran has an interesting take on international law. According to Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki, the UN Security Council's Chapter VII resolution from last December requiring Iran to cease all its uranium enrichment activities is illegal. As he put it Wednesday during a friendly visit in Turkey, "We were against [the resolution] for being illegal and politically motivated."Anyone with even a casual acquaintance with international law should recognize that Mottaki's statement is not merely incorrect. Download PDF

Abbas made clear it was only intra-Palestinian bloodshed he opposed. Attacking Jews was still OK. Download PDF

It is impossible to guess the consequences of the approaching showdown between the US and Iran. But if the events of the past week are any guide, the future does not look promising. Download PDF

Fresh from her tete-a-tete with PA leader Mahmoud Abbas last week, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni instructed her press flack to tell her fellow cabinet ministers to remain mum on Abbas's latest "diplomatic" gambit. In the words of her communications director Shai Ben Maor, Abbas's decision to turn a document written by convicted Palestinian murderers and attempted murderers sitting in Israeli prisons into the centerpiece of his diplomatic policy is "an internal Palestinian issue" and so Israel should not be weighing in on it. Download PDF Descargar PDF

It's a grand occasion when a new Israeli prime minister makes an inaugural visit to Washington. He typically meets with the president, addresses a joint meeting of Congress, appears on plum television shows, talks to influential audiences, and consults privately with a range of leading figures. Personality, pomp, and substance mix together as the two heads of govern-ment establish a working relationship, the U.S.-Israel bond is reconfirmed, and issues relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict are reviewed. Download PDF Descargar PDF

The problem is not that Hamas will not recognize Israel. The problem is that Hamas cannot recognize Israel.Hamas is a terrorist group that has become a political party. More sig-nificantly, however, it is a religious organization and part of a global movement. Download PDF Descargar PDF

From my childhood in Gaza until today, blaming Israel and the West has been an industry in the Muslim world. Download PDF Descargar PDF

On the surface, Iran appears to have bested the international community in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. As former Secretary of State Colin Powell has observed, after two years of fruit-less negotiation, the international community is no closer to halting Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons. Instead, the great powers endlessly debate where and when a diplomatic showdown will take place while Iran resumes its nuclear research. In es-sence, the world is fiddling while Rome burns. The West has one ace left to play before a final showdown looms. Extending NATO membership to Israel could convince Iran’s Mul-lahs that developing a nuclear capa-bility is not in their interest. Download PDF Descargar PDF

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