The Year in Verse   …The change in Washington gave the nod: A new job for David Axelrod, Another for Rahm Emmanuel, Susan Sher, for First Lady Michelle. Howard Berman was hot on Iran, Drawing heat on health: Joe Lieberman. Al and Barney, that’s Franken and Frank, Covered the Democrats’ leftward flank. […]

  At the 1993 Oslo signing ceremony in Washington, President Bill Clinton called the Oslo accords a “brave gamble.” Actually, Oslo turned out to be a tragic gamble that cost Israel almost 2,000 lives, with thousands more maimed. The reason: a concessionary policy that ignored continuing Palestinian rejection of Israel‘s existence as a Jewish state […]

  U.S. Must Make Certain Iran Doesn’t Get Bomb Your editorial in the paper of Nov. 25, titled “Time to Enforce Deadline,” rightly describes the danger posed to Israel by the looming Iranian nuclear threat and the need for the United States to take action. One important addition to your argument would be the often […]

  Washington, DC – Four Jewish groups have filed an amicus curiae (”friend of the court”) brief with the United States Supreme Court asking the Justices to overturn the ruling of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that, the amici claim, could inhibit officials of the State of Israel from lecturing or meeting with others […]

    Sir, – In your editorial, you spoke correctly of the “risks” of “further kidnappings and killings” that arise if Israel frees hundreds of terrorists to obtain the freedom of Gilad Schalit (“Schalit: The details matter,” December 3). The Israeli public must bear in mind that freed terrorists have already murdered large numbers of […]

    The editorial in the Nov. 13 Chronicle concerning Sen. Brownback was inappropriate and frankly, misguided. It would not have been surprising for an anti-Israel newspaper to criticize this pro-Israel action by one of the most pro-Israel senators, but for a Jewish newspaper to do so is shameful. Sen. Brownback’s S. 2737, to require the U.S. Embassy to be moved […]

  At the 1993 Oslo signing ceremony in Washington, President Bill Clinton called the Oslo Accords a “brave gamble.” Actually, Oslo turned out to be a tragic gamble that cost Israel almost more than 1,900 dead and thousands more maimed. The reason: a concessionary policy that ignored continuing Palestinian rejection of Israel’s existence as a […]

     Last week, in return for a video – not the freedom of a kidnap victim, but a video of a kidnap victim – Israel freed 20 Palestinian prisoners. This has to stop.      At one time Israel would release terrorists – but not those with “blood on their hands” and only in […]

  Is J Street really a pro-Israel group? The lobbying organization never tires of claiming it is. Yet what pro-Israel group would invite a man to speak at its upcoming conference who’s called for Israel’s destruction, stating that “the establishment by force, violence and terrorism of a Jewish state in Palestine in 1948” was “a […]

  Fatah, the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority (PA) headed by Fatah co-founder, Mahmoud Abbas, has held in Bethlehem it first congress in twenty years. What has emerged? – An adamant refusal to accept Israel’s existence as a Jewish state; glorification of terrorists and the “armed struggle,” insistence on the so-called ‘right of return,’ […]