Extending the Settlement Freeze Would Undermine a Vital Israeli Security...
Thomas Friedman argues in today’s New York Times that Israel should extend its freeze on settlement construction because when a key ally like America “asks Israel to do something that in no way touches...
View ArticleTurkey Co-opts NATO Missile-Defense System to Hurt Israel and Help Iran
That Turkey has grown unrelentingly hostile to Israel, and cozy with Iran, is no longer news. But it is news, of the most disturbing kind, that Washington has chosen to actively collaborate in both the...
View ArticleEU Undercuts U.S. Sanctions on Iran
Remember that the administration and its enablers told us that, sure, the UN sanctions weren’t that biting, but the EU would really lower the boom on Tehran. Well, not so much: The European Union...
View ArticleObama Starts to Pay Attention to India
During his first two years in office, Barack Obama has not done much to nurture the burgeoning U.S.-India alliance, which was one of the most important initiatives fostered by his predecessor. Many...
View ArticleU.S. Adopts Israeli Anti-Terror Tactics, but Waffles on Defending Israel’s...
One cable from the WikiLeaks trove raises a disturbing possibility: the Obama administration’s obsession with Israeli settlements could end up undermining America’s own war on terror. Shortly before...
View ArticlePalestinian Authority: 10 EU States to Approve Palestinian Embassies
Palestinian Authority chief negotiator Saeb Erekat claimed yesterday that 10 European Union states have decided to upgrade their PLO missions to embassy status. He didn’t specify which countries had...
View ArticleIsraelis Think No Concession Will Ever Satisfy the West
A newly released WikiLeaks cable quotes Ron Dermer, a top adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, telling a U.S. diplomat of Israelis’ frustration with the peace process. Surprisingly,...
View ArticleEU Prepares to Repeat Its Cyprus Mistake in the Middle East
If insanity means doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, then many leading European officials are certifiably insane. A new WikiLeaks cable reveals that in January 2010,...
View ArticleRE: Palestinians’ UN Gambit Puts Both Israel and Obama on the Spot
The Associated Press has published excerpts from the Palestinians’ draft resolution; it seeks a declaration that Israeli settlements are “illegal” and a “major obstacle” to peace, and demands that...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
It looks like President Obama has finally found some backbone in his diplomatic spat with Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan president rejected the U.S.’s choice for ambassador to Caracas and dared Obama to...
View ArticleIndia’s New Position on UNSC Seen as Test for Permanent Membership
Of the five new countries just joining the UN Security Council as non-permanent members, India will definitely be the one to keep an eye on for the next two years: After a gap of 19 years, India today...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
House Republicans announced a vote to repeal health-care reform on Jan. 12, naming their bill the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.” But even if the legislation passes the House, it’s...
View ArticleThe Ninth Step
President Obama has recently taken eight steps toward the right. As Peter noted yesterday, Romesh Ponnuru listed six: (1) the tax deal; (2) selecting Bill Daley as chief of staff; (3) absolving...
View ArticleWould U.S. Veto of Anti-Israel Security Council Resolution Be ‘Hypocritical’?
Or at least that seems to be the new argument from the anti-Israel left. Some commentators have claimed that because the Obama administration has requested that Israel end settlement construction, the...
View ArticleBringing Change to Foreign Policy
At his Council on Foreign Relations blog, Elliott Abrams notes that Obama’s “engagement” policy suffers from an inherent contradiction: [H]e believes in the UN Security Council and the Human Rights...
View ArticleThe Unintended Consequences of a Unilateral Declaration of Statehood for...
Anyone taking seriously the Palestinians’ current diplomatic offensive against Israel — by way of a UN resolution on settlements and international recognition of Palestine as an independent state —...
View ArticlePalestine Papers Confirm What Israel Has Said All Along
I don’t know whether the “Palestine Papers” published yesterday by Al Jazeera and the Guardian are real or, as Barry Rubin argues, a fake aimed at discrediting the Palestinian Authority’s current...
View ArticleRep. Ackerman Throws J Street Under the Bus
Despite J Street’s eagerness to blame its “political enemies” for its public-relations troubles, all its image problems have been brought on by itself. Nobody forced the group the take money from...
View ArticleSharansky: Reagan Right, Critics Wrong
Ronald Reagan, who would have been 100 this Sunday, had an instinctive affinity for Jews and Israel. As an actor who spent decades in the heavily Jewish environment of Hollywood and who counted scores...
View ArticleVenezuela’s Election to UN Security Council Can’t Hide Its Weakness
The good news is that Turkey didn’t manage to get itself elected to the UN Security Council. The bad news is that Venezuela did, as was expected. So come January, the chavista regime will have an...
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