Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to blog about issues affecting Israel and the Middle East. Currently, skepticism in Israel is high as Iran readies to sign a deal with the IAEA just before the 6-Power talks get underway in Baghdad. Israeli leaders have good reason to be skeptical of anything Iran signs with [...]
In an early 2009 interview on the ABC News Program This Week, then President-elect Obama reiterated his goal of working directly with Iran to improve relations and halt its self-described peaceful nuclear program. Obama told program host George Stephanopoulos that he wanted to adopt, “a new emphasis on respect and a new willingness on being [...]
For obvious reasons, April 15 is one of the most dreaded days in America. Now it will have a bad rap in Israel but for a very different reason. You see, another publicity stunt known as both “Air Flotilla 2” and “Welcome to Palestine” arrives at Ben Gurion Airport this Sunday. Judging by its lethal [...]
March 30, 2012 06:00 I wake up, open my eyes, its one week to Passover, so many things to do, so little time to do them. Passover is the busiest time of the year in Israel. People go crazy with preparations for this holiday: Cleaning houses; dusting; vacuuming; painting the walls with fresh paint; changing [...]
Iran’s umbilical cord to Syria is nauseatingly obvious when UN Special Envoy Kofi Annan has to go to Tehran to gain support for his faltering ceasefire plan. Yet for the Boston Globe to report “the visit is to stop the country’s slide into civil war” is a boldface lie. CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux has also downplayed [...]
As economic times get tougher in America there’s a general tendency (and growing apathy) to pay less attention to revolutions in the Middle East and more to our dwindling bank accounts. But we can’t become complacent while Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime goes home-to-home executing families any more than we can stop seeking out [...]
The Global March to Jerusalem is just publicity stunt the same as the Gaza flotilla in 2010, “Nakba” day in 2011 followed a month later by “Naksa” day as I blogged about yesterday. Today, Israeli media are even reporting a possible aerial flotilla. The delegitimization of Israel never stops. The common thread (besides destroying the [...]
