It was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, who called off a joint U.S.-Israeli military exercise. [...]
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The New York Times' bias against Israel continues to get worse. Israeli Prime Minister has declined to contribute op-eds anymore. [...] The real tragedy is that terrorists have forced us to choose between dying and abandoning civil liberties. [...] The Shalit case represents the classic struggle between heart and mind. Israel can expect to pay a terrible price for this exchange given that the deal to free Gilad Shalit involves reducing the life sentences of two hundred and eighty mass murderers responsible for hundreds of Israeli deaths. [...] New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is wrong to suggest that the U.S. should support a Palestinian state, following the advice of the anti-Israel Jewish group J-Street. We are not seeing an "Arab Spring," but rather something more like an "Arab Winter." [...] Assuming a Palestinian state is declared by the UNGA in September, Israel and the United States have made it clear that unity talks with Hamas and the PA's unilateral UN bid for statehood will have serious financial and political consequences. [...] President Barack Obama appears to be preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in coming days, one that will ask those in the Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic terrorism in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death and embrace what he believes will be a new era of positive relations with the [...] There is an enormous ethical and moral divide separating Palestinian and Israeli cultures. What the Obama Administration and the Europeans fail to understand is that Hamas was not elected by accident back in 2006. It was elected because its very rationale for existence reflects the prevailing attitude within mainstream Palestinian society. For the Palestinians, terrorism is not a weapon borne of “root causes”, desperation or poverty, but is a strategic choice. So if Hamas and its Palestinian supporters seek the annihilation of Israel, they had best understand the consequences that will flow from their actions. [...] Harold Rhode has written that the paradigms that govern US foreign policy in the Middle East today are totally at odds with the paradigms that actually govern the actions of our enemies. [...] To radical Islamists, a mosque rising near Ground Zero, well before a new World Trade Center has even begun being constructed, symbolizes Islamic triumphalism and supremacy — part of a long tradition of minarets built over the conquered religious sites of enemies. [...] Given Hezbollah's increasing numbers in the 58,000-strong Lebanese army, a natural bond has developed between Shiites in the Lebanese Armed Forces and their co-religionists in Hezbollah. [...] Since the 1993 Oslo Accords, the U.S. has showered $2.2 billion in bilateral aid on the Palestinians, in addition to more than $3.4 billion for humanitarian aid funneled through dysfunctional U.N. organizations since 1950. [...] The President may think that his single-digit approval ratings in Israel are simply because his middle name is "Hussein," but he's wrong. [...] For some unfathomable reason, the Obama Administration sees Israel as obstructionist, defiant and intransigent. [...] Anti-Semitism has evolved from an irrational hatred or jealousy of Jews to an irrational hatred or jealousy of the Jewish State – Israel. [...] Dialogue and accommodation with messianic, apocalyptic Islamic regimes like Iran is not only pointless, but threatens the stability of the international order. Even as the UN's nuclear watchdog agency and Israeli intelligence have acknowledged that the Iranian mullahs are on the nuclear threshold and have perfected long-range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the Obama [...] In November 2009, Shin Bet issued a Report describing how Hamas has begun instituting Islamic law and thought in all areas of Gaza life since its violent takeover of the area in June 2007. [...] On August 26th, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad issued a 54-page plan that proposed the establishment of a de-facto Palestinian state within two years. [...] Benjamin Netanyahu's June 14th speech was historic, if only because it set aside rhetoric in favor of political realities. [...] Time and again, a two-state solution has been proposed and time and again, the Arabs have rejected it. [...] Changing the emphasis from the bottom-up, performance-based terms of the Roadmap to the top-down Annapolis process brings to the fore the essence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [...] Any bargain struck with Iran will not only enhance Iran's status and the status of its Middle East proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, but will detrimentally affect Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, our interests in the Persian Gulf and American hegemony throughout the region and beyond. [...] There is little doubt that the Gaza campaign provided a pretext to unleash deep-seated anti-Semitism in Britain and across Europe. [...] George Mitchell is about to discover that you cannot make peace with those who seek your destruction. [...] So long as Gazans are idle and remain on the international dole, Gazan teenagers will have no future other than war. [...] |
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