Right Side of History or Left Side of Disaster?

By now, any­one who’s surfed the inter­net, turned on a TV, radio or had a dis­cus­sion about world pol­i­tics has heard that Egypt­ian Pres­i­dent Hosni Mubarak has stepped down. Really forced out. A peace­ful rev­o­lu­tion that was really a street-side coup d’état to top­ple a cor­rupt gov­ern­ment that was a firm friend of the West. So how do we inter­nal­ize US […]

Eradicating Hate Ads, One Bus At A Time

How can any group, let alone a county in the United States, pre­tend its own poli­cies on bus adver­tis­ing isn’t offen­sive if the mere ver­biage incites hate? This is exactly what’s hap­pen­ing in Seattle’s King County while the fringe group, Seat­tle Mideast Aware­ness Cam­paign, defends its planned ads that tout, “Israeli War Crimes.” The group’s spokesperson, […]

Insult Over Injury

On November 13, 2010, in Abbas, Gaza, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Palestinians, terrorism, UN, United Nations, by jenhanin

As expected, the New York Times is up to their old tricks again. It wasn’t enough that the news­pa­per flaunted their pen­chant for cozy­ing up with Com­mu­nists in its Sunday’s Metro sec­tion, “Where Marx­ists Pon­tif­i­cate, And Play,” now the once-respected pub­li­ca­tion has cast a black shadow over Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu’s state­side visit with Secretary […]

Peace or Pipedream? Palestinians Must Pick

What is for­mer US Pres­i­dent Jimmy Carter think­ing these days? Meet­ing with Hamas leader Khalid Mashaal doesn’t bode well for his rep­u­ta­tion. Pro-Israel sup­port­ers are furi­ous with this as Hamas is a rec­og­nized ter­ror­ist group by the United States and Israel. Then there is Gilad Shalit to con­sider. Hamas has held Gilad Shalit for over four […]

Time Magazine Shame on You

Is it any won­der why Israel gets a bad rap when main­stream pub­li­ca­tions like Time Mag­a­zine mis­rep­re­sent the Jew­ish State? In its Sept. 13, 2010 issue, Time Mag­a­zine sug­gests Israel doesn’t care about Peace. Really? The author, Karl Vick, claims Israelis are much more con­cerned with liv­ing their lives and enjoy­ing them­selves than whether they have […]

Derailing Peace at Every Turn

Imag­ine if there were evil forces out to frame you no mat­ter what you did or how you did it. Then con­sider Israel. Just two days ago, IDF sol­diers per­formed rou­tine main­te­nance by clear­ing bushes to improve the line of sight along the Israeli  –  Lebanese bor­der. Then “suddenly”  –  a word that par­ents read­ing children’s books are all too […]

Cure the Disease, Not the Symptoms

Israeli For­eign Min­is­ter Danny Ayalon set the record straight with his recent Wall Street Jour­nal arti­cle on the dou­ble stan­dard the world places on Israel. Ayalon brought up a good ques­tion: where was the world a few years ago when Pales­tin­ian ter­ror­ists mur­dered nearly 500 locals at a refugee camp? Now I have one. Where were Oliver Stone, Elvis Costello […]

Too Little, Too Late

Ok, I hate to admit it. I am one of those Jews who voted for Barack Hus­sein Obama (yuck!) think­ing he had all the answers. Wrong! He not only didn’t have ALL the answers, he didn’t have ANY of the answers. And not only did he not have any of the answers but he also lied about […]

Trading the United States Flag for a Crescent Moon and Star

US Vice Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s poor treat­ment of Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Netanyahu fol­lowed by his harsh state­ment to Israel is a symp­tom of a much larger prob­lem. Once again, we are see­ing Pres­i­dent Obama’s Mus­lim roots and Arab con­nec­tions sti­fling Israel the same way the allur­ing South African ice plant has become an eco­log­i­cal nui­sance to California. […]

A Salute to Standouts Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism

The United Nations has a long­stand­ing pas­time that is vir­tu­ally unknown. It’s not a noble one like elim­i­nat­ing blood­shed in the Congo, or restor­ing law in Soma­lia or even peace­mak­ing in Kash­mir. It’s not focused on con­demn­ing coun­tries with appalling human rights abuses like China, Cuba, North Korea, Saudi Ara­bia, Sudan and Zim­babwe. Oh, no. It has […]