February 13, 2009   What Israel’s Election Means For U.S. Jews   What Israel’s razor-close national elections mean to American Jews   Neil RubinEditor   Rabbi Charles Arian was shocked by last Tuesday’s Israeli national elections even before the stunning results were announced. “It was totally under the radar screen,” said the […]

      Letter Fri. Feb 13, 2009  Talk To Hamas? Read Its Charter Instead Amjad Atallah argues that America should support a policy of speaking to all elected Palestinian representatives, meaning Hamas as well as Fatah. Apparently, he fails to understand that there is no Israeli or American obligation to deal with a group […]

      February 12, 2009   Synagogue Vandalism Your report on the recent attack on the synagogue in Caracas rightly addressed an important issue that is personally poignant for me (“The Last Straw in Venezuela?” Feb. 6).I traveled extensively throughout Venezuela in the late 1980s and early 1990s, meeting with Israeli diplomats stationed there, […]

Feb. 5, 2009Hilary Leila Krieger, the jerusalem post, washington , THE JERUSALEM POST US President Barack Obama faced a host of personnel problems this week, as two top appointees bowed out because of unpaid income taxes and another pick distressed some in the Jewish community. Samantha Power, a Harvard University genocide expert and former Obama […]

      US envoy won’t meet with Hamas, stop in Syria ME trip Jan. 26, 2009 By HILARY LEILA KRIEGER AND ALLISON HOFFMAN New US Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell will not have any contacts with Hamas nor stop in Syria during his travel to the region this week, State Department officials said […]

BEST OF THE WEB TODAY /JANUARY 22, 2009 By JAMES TARANTO Christmas List The Zionist Organization of America has a question for President Obama, concerning the statement in his Inaugural Address that “we are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus–and nonbelievers”: What is the reason President Obama chose this sequence when listing […]

  Do you owe Israelis an apology?   By Ami Eden · January 21, 2009 In the wake of the recent Hamas-Israel war, two Israeli columnists and the Zionist Organization of America are calling on supporters of disengagement to apologize for the Gaza pullout in 2005. Ha’aretz columnist Nadav Shragai : Now, after the war and just […]

By Robert Spencer January 21, 2009 Fitzgerald: “A nation of Christians and Muslims”? A nation of Christians and Muslims The Inaugural Speech was thankfully sober and unsoaring, but it contained one phrase that disturbs. That phrase is this: “The United States is a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and non-believers.” The traditional […]

  THE BIG QUESTION, Jan. 23: Obama’s Envoys January 23rd, 2009 The Big Question is a feature where influential lawmakers, pundits and interest group leaders give their answers to a question that’s driving discussion in news circles around the country. Today’s Big Question is: What are the odds Obama’s new envoys can make a difference […]

Memo to President Obama January 15, 2009, Philadelphia Jewish Exponent                                     FOREIGN AID An Arab-Israeli peace is only possible if Palestinian society is transformed into one that genuinely supports peace with Israel. Without that, no amount of American aid or Israeli concessions will produce peace. Therefore, American support for the Palestinian Authority — $700 million a […]