What Obama Isn’t Telling You About the Middle East
October 28, 2012 Breitbart.com The biggest issue Israel faces today is not the garden-variety Arab Spring. It also is not whether equality and democracy reign in Israel. It’s also surprisingly not the Palestinian-Israeli conflict many associate as the bone of contention of the region. The mother-of-all-issues, as I learned Monday from Dr. Andy David, Israel’s Consul […]
Israel: The Model for the New Middle East
Look at the Middle East and you’ll quickly see one State stands out among the fray. That State is and always has been: Israel. It is the one state that has made multiculturalism a way of life. It’s the one State that encourages full democratic rights: freedom of the press, freedom of religion, womens’ rights and […]
Replacing Demonization with a Conversation
There’s no doubt that if Israel’s critics compared the Jewish State to its Arab neighbors toe-to-toe, they would see that their criticisms of Israel were paltry when compared to the lack of democracy, human rights and individuals freedoms allowed in Arab countries. Alan Krinksy hits a high note with his article in the Sydney Morning Herald […]
Ditching the Double-Standard Applied to Israel
It’s no secret that the Middle East is cracking at the seams over what Israel enjoys daily: democracy. No, longer is Israel the whipping boy of the Middle East or the cause of regions ills. Now, the world can open its eyes and see that the autocratic rule in Arab majority countries has kept millions […]
Democracy Not Hypocracy So the Sign Says
For far too long, the only focus worth dwelling on in the Middle East was Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Far too often, Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict pockmarked all that was wrong with the Middle East. Then, presto, Arab country after Arab country found itself embroiled in its own revolution where Arabs were willing […]
UN Prefers to Focus on Israel Over Middle East Atrocities
It’s a sad state of affairs when the UN has little interest in Middle East protesters that are getting slain daily yet puts its Security Council in overdrive to defame Israel. Act For Israel made mention of this today and regularly calls the UN out on its biased conduct towards Israel. Protesters in African nations and […]
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 […]
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict NOT the Panacea
World leaders have pegged the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the panacea for Middle East peace for decades. Some have gone as far as to suggest peacemaking between these two peoples impart far-reaching, even global ramifications. Most have had to recoil their dropped jaws and eat their words when the real issues came to light as the […]
Reminder: Don’t Miss Israeli Diplomat Ishmael Khaldi
AmbassaDOR is partnering with Act For Israel to invite you to Cafe Israel, where Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi will be on hand to share his amazing life experiences as chronicled in his new book: A Shepherd’s Journey: the Story of Israel’s First Bedouin Diplomat. Ready to be inspired? Don’t miss out! Click below for admission. Date: February […]
The Brotherhood is About as Moderate as Bin Laden
Lately, a number of mainstream news outlets have cast the Muslim Brotherhood as “moderates.†We won’t name them as they know who they are. Yet, if you’ve followed uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Jordan & Yemen and have one eye on Syria, you’ve probably witnessed this. It couldn’t be further from the truth. There’s a danger in […]

