State Dept. Defines “Success” at the Counterterrorism Forum

Rick Richman .. Commentary/Contentions.. 10 December '12.. At Friday’s State Department press conference , spokesman Mark Toner was aske...

International Human Rights Day 2012 - From Tragedy to Farce

Gerald M. Steinberg .. Times of Israel.. 10 December '12.. 2012 was another dismal year, and there is little to celebrate on Internation...

Time to Let the Palestinian Authority Fail?

...Israel faces a morally upside-down world where it is damned for taking military, economic, or any other steps against sworn enemies who, ...

Justice Be Damned - Human Rights Activists vs. the International Court

Evelyn Gordon .. Commentary/Contentions.. 10 December '12.. Under other circumstances, I might enjoy watching “human rights” activists d...

Israel Has No Other Alternative ...

...But the Alternative it Has is a Good One Barry Rubin .. Rubin Reports.. 10 December '12.. The Palestinian leadership, abetted by ma...

Europe and the West's pet conflict

Guy Bechor .. Israel Opinion/Ynet.. 08 December '12.. For more than 70 years the Israeli-Arab (or Jewish-Arab) conflict has been viewed ...

The Lie That Broke Israel's Back (at the UN)

Steve Apfel .. American Thinker.. 09 December '12.. Israel now has a quasi-state to contend with. "A victory for the values of tru...

The UK - A double-standard abstention

Melanie Phillips .. melaniephillips.com.. 09 December '12.. The double standard was breathtaking. The UN vote to give the Palestinians t...

(+Video) The Fantasy of Hamas’s Moderation

Max Boot .. Commentary/Contentions.. 09 December '12.. Hamas, at least according to one increasingly popular line of reasoning in both t...

Dear Europeans - An open letter to European countries

Dror Eydar .. Times of Israel.. 07 December '12.. You summoned our ambassadors to be reprimanded over the most natural thing on earth: s...

Arlene Kushner From Israel - "... in Palestine as of right and not on sufferance"

Arlene Kushner .. 06 December'12.. As promised, a different sort of posting here: legal and historical background that is essential to u...