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Iran is an enemy. That doesn’t mean Turkey is a friend.
By Ben Cohen / JointMedia News Service ~ Ninety years after the Ottoman Empire gasped its final breath, Turkey is again rising to a position of dominance. For the discontented… Read more
South Sudan, Israel’s New Ally
By Daniel Pipes ~ It’s not every day that the leader of a brand-new country makes his maiden foreign voyage to Jerusalem, capital of the most besieged country in the… Read more
The Taliban and the PLO
By Shoshana Bryen ~ The story below is not a history lesson; it is a cautionary tale. What happens when the United States ignores the nature and behavior of an… Read more
There’s no reason to redefine “pro-Israel”
By Eric Rozenman ~ In a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post, Jeremy Ben-Ami called for a “Redefining of ‘pro-Israel,’” and urged Israel “to proactively take bold, even risky,… Read more
L’Institut d’Égypte – In Memoriam
By Daniel Pipes ~ Founded in 1798 by the scientists accompanying Napoleon on his invasion of Egypt, who also complied the monumental 20-volume Description de l’Égypte (1809-28), L’Institut d’ Égypte… Read more
Obama Fails to Mention Islamist Murderers of 39 Christians at Nigeria Churches
Ihe Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed concern that President Barack Obama’s official statement about this horrific massacre of Christians at three different churches by a group of Muslim… Read more
My End of Year Lament
By Ed Koch ~ Almost everyone who lives in New York City knows that I am Jewish. Most know that I am a secular Jew who believes in God, the… Read more
The Israel Ad: Much ado about nothing …or something?
Two weeks ago, a highly controversial ad campaign encouraging Israelis living in the Diaspora to move back to Israel, and to not marry non-Israelis, has been pulled. Created by Israel’s… Read more
How to Invent a People
By Shoshana Bryen ~ The Palestinians are an “invented people,” Newt Gingrich said. Response to this simple truth splits into two directions – those who accuse the former House Speaker… Read more
Only antisemites talk about Israeli power, and the Jewish lobby
The following is the text of a speech given in September 2011 by Boaz Modai, Israel’s Ambassador to Ireland. When last Wednesday, in his speech to the UN General… Read more












