Obama exits – Trump enters…writes Michael Kuttner

As Barak Obama leaves the White House and Donald Trump takes up residence, self-proclaimed liberals still cannot accept reality. Read more

Obama and Kerry open door for Palestine Mandate Solution

US Secretary of State John Kerry – perhaps unwittingly – has now opened the door to reviving the solution contained in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine – one homeland for the Jews and one homeland for the Arabs (“Palestine Mandate Solution”)…writes David Singer. Read more

Palestine – Rubio Challenges Clinton’s Support For Israel

Marco Rubio has directly challenged Hillary Clinton – and every other Presidential candidate – to honour the commitments given by President Bush to Israel on 14 April 2004. Read more

Carter causes consternation with election call for Palestinian Arabs

 

Former US president Jimmy Carter has created a stir with his call for Palestinian Arabs to hold elections to end the internecine struggle between Hamas and the PLO in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza…writes David Singer. Read more

Dire Straits…writes Michael Kuttner

Some of you may remember a British rock band called Dire Straits which was formed in the late 1970’s and went on to record some popular hits. Read more

When the president’s hero is a terrorist: a tale of two societies

The president of a normal, civilized country naturally is anxious to distance himself from any suspicion of ever having had a connection to a terrorist. Read more

Nuclear Knockout Not Nearly Nailed…writes David Singer

President Obama seems to have been unduly optimistic in triumphantly proclaiming the success of the P5+1 talks with Iran in Lausanne. Read more

A new age of Middle East insecurity…writes Ben Cohen

Back in 2010, I interviewed Gerard Araud, who is now the French ambassador in Washington, DC, while he was still serving as France’s envoy to the United Nations in New York.We talked at length about Iran, and this was the first thing he told me: “The Iranian nuclear program has no civilian explanation whatsoever. You don’t start a civilian nuclear program by enriching uranium. It’s like if you buy the gas before the car.” Read more

The aftermath of Netanyahu’s congressional tour de force…writes Isi Leibler

A week after the event, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extraordinary address to Congress has in no way diminished my enthusiasm for his tour de force, which exceeded all expectations. Read more

Netanyahu nails the fundamental problem with Iran…writes Ben Cohen

I have to confess that I was disappointed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference this year. Read more

Netanyahu outlines ‘fateful crossroads’ on Iranian nukes

In perhaps the most widely debated address ever given by a foreign leader to Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described a “fateful crossroads” on the Iranian nuclear threat and said that the emerging deal between Iran and world powers is paving the way for a Middle East “littered with nuclear bombs”  Sean Savage/JNS.org reports. Read more

Netanyahu Flies into Washington on a Wing and a Prayer

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Washington this week is going ahead despite unsuccessful attempts from far and wide to shoot him down in flames before he was even airborne….writes David Singer. Read more

Obama’s shameless Jewish cheerleaders…writes Isi Leibler

While U.S. President Barack Obama determinedly pursues his policy of appeasement, which may enable the world’s most dangerous terrorist state to become a nuclear threshold power, there are Israelis and American Jews who have initiated a campaign against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Don’t mention the war…writes Michael Kuttner

Do you remember the episode from Fawlty Towers where a group of German tourists was due to visit and Basil, played by John Cleese, warned his staff “don’t mention the war?” Read more

Obama Honouring Presidential Commitments Trumps Protocol…writes David Singer

The furore engendered by House Speaker John Boehner inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress on March 3 – supposedly in breach of Presidential protocol – marks the first step in Congress flexing its muscles to persuade President Obama to re-think his concerted attempts to undermine the written commitments made by President Bush to Israel’s then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in his letter dated 14 April 2004 – as overwhelmingly endorsed by the House of Representatives 407-9 on 23 June 2004 and the Senate 95-3 the next day (“American Written Commitments”). Read more

Presidents will not meet

Israel’s president Reuven Rivlin is currently in the United States but hopes that a meeting with U.S. president Barak Obama might be arranged will not be realised. Read more

Increasing numbers of Jewish Democrats disillusioned with Obama

It has been reported that American Jews still voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic Party in the recent midterm congressional elections…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Obama seeks confrontation with Israel…writes Isi Leibler

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the intensifying global pressures on Israel is to firmly reject any further territorial withdrawals that would put Israel’s security at risk, stating that “Israel will not lose hope for peace, but neither will it cling to false hope.” Read more

Syria Hysteria Dooms Obama’s Plan To Destroy ISIL…writes David Singer

President Obama’s failed policies in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt and the West Bank do not bode well for the success of the President’s current plans to end the threat to world peace posed by the meteoric rise of both the Islamic State in Syria and the Levant (ISIL) and the Al-Nusrah Front (ANF). Read more

Spielberg genocide award for Obama…writes Rafael Medoff

In his recent remarks upon receiving an award for fighting genocide, President Barack Obama explained why he is not fighting genocide. He didn’t mean it to sound quite that way, of course. But that was the indisputable meaning of his words. Read more

It’s time for the gloves to come off… writes Gil Solomon

The Obama so called “peace talks” are falling in a heap due to three main issues. Read more

Blaming Israel for the Collapse of the Peace Negotiations…writes Isi Leibler

All signs indicate that the moribund peace process has now formally collapsed. Read more

Palestine – Sharon’s Legacy Haunts Obama And Kerry…writes David Singer

President Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry have a lot on their minds as they grapple with conflicts and political issues involving countries like Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan – which no doubt must be causing massive overloading of their respective memory banks. Read more

Obama’s Munich Reverberates but Israel is no Czechoslovakia…writes Isi Leibler

Now that we have absorbed the shock of Obama’s capitulation to the Iranians, it is time to face hard realities and plan for the future. Read more

Putin’s Russia Now a Force in the Middle East…writes Isi Leibler

President Obama’s abysmal failure to provide leadership during the Syrian crisis represents a turning point in the Middle East and has paved the way for President Putin’s Russia to emerge as the dominant regional force, a position it had surrendered after the breakup of the Soviet Union.  Read more

Syrian Free Army Signing Own Death Warrant…writes David Singer

The swift agreement between Russia and America to collect and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons has been an impressive diplomatic achievement – marred only by the fact that it has taken three weeks longer to reach this point because of their joint failure to focus on ending the use of chemical weapons in Syria – rather than focusing on who was responsible for the atrocity that caused the deaths of 1429 Syrians on 21 August. Read more

America’s Isolationism and its Implications for Israel…from Isi Leibler

There is currently a remote possibility that the Russian strategy will succeed in averting US military action by persuading Assad to hand over his chemical weapons of mass destruction for demolition by the international community. Read more

Syria – Obama Hell-bent On Creating Hell…writes David Singer

President Obama has lost a golden opportunity at the G20 Summit in St Petersburg to step back from undertaking a military assault on Syria – that promises to create hell for Syria’s civilian population and to unleash consequences that can extend far beyond Syria’s borders. Read more

Moral Bankruptcy Once Again

For the benefit of those who may have forgotten their history lessons and for the majority of those who were born well after World War 2, I would like to take this opportunity of pointing out some salient and sobering facts which will hopefully focus attention on an unfolding scandal confronting all of us at the moment. Read more

Palestine: What Obama and Abbas Didn’t Tell the U.N.

President Obama and Palestinian Authority  President Mahmoud Abbas both addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations this week and left more unsaid than was actually stated. Read more

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