Free Speech
With the advent of several incidents featuring the Muslim Prophet Mohammed in a demeaning caricature, invariably there has been an outcry questioning the permissibility of denigrating a major religious...
View ArticleConfusion and Trust
It cannot be denied by any sane person that the public is subjected to regular reversal of positions as stated by leading political individuals, not least of all the prime minister. Words should have...
View ArticleLess understood
For too many years we have been pressured to “give peace a chance” by virtue of returning “land for peace.” This always after having wining a defensive war. In more reason times, the name of the game...
View ArticleIn the beginning
Common beliefs, and in particular those of the media, view the origin of the State of Israel as a consequence of the 1948 War of independence. This is most certainly not so and in terms of the modern...
View ArticleNetanyahu and the Grand Mufti — Insight into media bias
In what was an outstanding speech at Bar Ilan. University, the PM erred on a single point. Ironically, the only newspaper to treat PM Netanyahu fairly was Haaretz. The issue concerned a meeting between...
View ArticleResponse to our accusers
“The Holocaust denied life & existence to anyone & anything Jewish. Israel protects & affirms Jewish existence on every conceivable level.”[1] Once again our emotions literally choke us as...
View ArticlePollard – A Study in Justice turned on its head
The authors of Justice, Pollard, and the Wrong Reaction [August 12, 2015] and the Limited “Freedom” of Jonathan Pollard [November 11, 2015] could not have read Irwin Cotler’s 10 Injustices why...
View ArticleA world without Islam
This is not a book review of the work by Graham E. Fuller, published in 2012. Rather, it is a critique in the context of current affairs. At the outset, the content, while consisting of an amalgam of...
View ArticleKissinger’s Last Hurrah
Long forgotten, but still alive, Henry Kissinger’s recent interview suggested that he has matured somewhat over the years. His initial response during the interview attests to this observation in that...
View ArticleObama, the Fallen Idol
The old adage, “Tell me who your friends are and you’ll be telling me who you are” undoubtedly applies to Barak Hussein Obama. From a family perspective, both his blood father his step father and his...
View ArticleThe original sin
” Yes, we are supporters of Israel, but we do not support illegal settlements, we do not support what is happening in East Jerusalem——occupied East Jerusalem, it is genuinely shocking,” [David Cameron,...
View ArticleFrom My Archives: Pesach 1996
DEMOCRACY IN ISRAEL The Balfour Declaration of 1917, the first event in a political process ultimately leading to the creation of modern day Israel, proclaimed “the establishment in Palestine of a...
View ArticleFrom My Archives — Of Prisons [10/13/2012]
On March 28, 1998, President Clinton accompanied Nelson Mandela on a visit to Robin Island, where President Mandela had been incarcerated for 18 years. It was in this setting that Bill Clinton...
View ArticleShoah 2016
Yet another Holocaust commemoration and yet another questioning on what lessons have been learnt. At the outset, it is necessary once again to positively eradicate from the record such medieval...
View ArticleFrom My Archives — June 29, 2003: Only the Arabs Can Make Peace
By way of an introduction the author acknowledges publication of this paper by Israel Hasbara Committee (HIC), which no longer exists. HIC Abstract Regarding the occupation fallacy, the author’s...
View ArticleA peace but not pieces resolution
On June 29, 2003 the author penned a piece, “Only the Arabs Can Make peace” which was published by the Israel Hasbara Committee. The summation by the HIC editorial staff emphasized the ill-conceived...
View ArticleA Chapter in History
“What some call the ‘West Bank’, Mr. President, is Judea and Samaria, and this simple historic truth will never change. There are cynics who mock history. They may deride history as much as they wish....
View ArticleRounding Up the Wagons Again
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.” [Winston Churchill] One has to wonder how the French 2016 and the Saudi 2002 Arab...
View ArticleA Tragedy in the Making: The Failure of the Western Nations
“Obama has deep emotional ties to Islam. His attachment to the Muslim world is hurting the USA. The Obama Administration’s greatest failure is allowing the Islamic terror group ISIS to run wild. ISIS...
View ArticleMohammad Abbas Invokes an Admission
“—civilization is confronted with militant Mohammedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.” [Winston Churchill...
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