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The Point of No Return

Mark Silverberg — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:14:16 +0000

It was Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, who called off a joint U.S.-Israeli military exercise. Debkafile recently disclosed that it was Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, who decided to call off the largest joint U.S.-Israeli military exercise Austere Challenge 12 ever planned between the two countries. That exercise had [...]

The Power of the Pen – Abused

Mark Silverberg — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:28:25 +0000

The New York Times' bias against Israel continues to get worse. Israeli Prime Minister has declined to contribute op-eds anymore.

The unceasing drumbeat of Israel-bashing on the pages of the New York Times is not exactly a secret. But in mid-December, the limit on the NYT’s image of promoting “objective journalism” was reached. When [...]

Redefining the Rules of War

Mark Silverberg — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:21:37 +0000

The real tragedy is that terrorists have forced us to choose between dying and abandoning civil liberties.

When mankind sets its sights on the stars and begins colonizing other planets, everyone acknowledges that international law will have to be changed. New rules and new procedures will have to be enacted to take into [...]

The Trauma of the Shalit Affair

Mark Silverberg — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:59:29 +0000

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.

Much has been written of the [...]

Nicholas Kristoff’s Middle East Delusions

Mark Silverberg — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:26:22 +0000

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."

Nicholas Kristof, in his column "Seeking Balance in the Middle East" [...]

A Palestinian State – The Day After

Mark Silverberg — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:33:49 +0000

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.

On Thursday, August 4th, Arab League foreign ministers and representatives from Jordan, Egypt, [...]

Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood

Mark Silverberg — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:14:57 +0000

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 [...]

Analyzing the Coming Middle East Conflict

Mark Silverberg — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:49:35 +0000

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. [...]

Negotiating in the Middle East: How The Other Side Sees It

Mark Silverberg — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:04:14 +0000

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.

In his latest speech at the UN, President Obama stated what, in the West, is considered to be the obvious solution to the Arab-Israeli [...]

Behind the Cordoba Mosque Controversy

Mark Silverberg — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:22:39 +0000

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.

While liberal elites focus on the soon-to-rise Cordoba mosque near the site of [...]