Viewpoints

OPINION - It is a well-known fact that Israel's calmest border is its border with Syria. However, this calm can only be considered a tense ceasefire. It is clearly in the interest of Israel and the international community to strive for a positive peace agreement between Israel and Syria. Lately Syria has begun to...
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The diplomatic fallout between Jerusalem and Washington following Vice President Biden's supposed insult over Israel's announcement that a construction plan in east Jerusalem had passed one stage of a multi-phase approval process seemed, to some observers, to have been staged. Biden was so gravely slighted by this dastardly act that he stood up the Prime...
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Vice President Joseph Biden's visit to Israel last week was touted in advance as an effort by the Obama administration to reassure Israelis of its warm feelings for Israel. Things did not quite work out that way. The tongue-lashings administered to Israel by a host of administration officials, most notably Secretary of State Hilary...
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OPINION – The Palestinian Authority last Wednesday decided to call off a ceremony to name a Ramallah square after Dalal Mughrabi, the female terrorist who led the worst ever terrorist attack in Israel’s history. In 1978, Mughrabi and a team of Palestinian terrorists set out from Lebanon and infiltrated Israel by sea. They proceeded to...
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OPINION - Stones were rained down at worshipers beside the Western Wall on Friday for the first time in nine years. Nine years ago, of course, stones were thrown by Palestinians at the Temple Mount at the start of the second intifada. On Friday night Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Israeli security forces, which he...
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OPINION - Well, President Barack Obama has passed his first year in office, and talk radio host Rush Limbaugh is not the only one wondering whether American Jews might be experiencing "buyers' remorse." (For the Jews of Israel, the matter was long ago settled. The president has done nothing to increase his popularity since...
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“I will always support Israel, guardian of the world’s capital, Jerusalem,” Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli told President Shimon Peres during a welcoming ceremony on Tuesday at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. In his opening remarks, President Martinelli said he “preferred to speak from the heart. As a citizen of Panama I say with great honor...
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OPINION - Rather than merely criticizing Israeli policy, there is now an undercurrent in some places that Israel itself is the problem, a theme which has been adopted by some left-liberals who argue that in the modern world, a state based on ethnicity is illegitimate. This is not just words; it has a real impact....
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OPINION - One hardly expects the British Broadcasting Corporation to present an objective or comprehensive picture when it addresses the Middle East. But a recent BBC radio documentary may set some sort of record for myopia. The second installment of a series entitled "The Crescent and the Cross" aiming to examine "turning points in the...
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OPINION - Neither facts nor logic have impeded champions of Nofrat Frenkel, the woman briefly detained by police at the Western Wall on November 18. Needless to say, Ms. Frenkel's charge that she was unnecessarily manhandled by police should be responsibly investigated. Even a violator of the law has the right to be detained in...
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