Distinguished guests, I really appreciate your warm welcome. And we are thrilled to be here with one of America’s closest friends. Laura and I are honored to represent the American people on the 60th anniversary of your independence. Happy birthday.

Something a little more happy and positive… This visit was protested by anti-Israel activists in Germany and elsewhere, but that is normal.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Israel on Sunday to cement ties with the Jewish state nearly 60 years after its creation following World War II and the Nazi Holocaust.
“Sixty [...]

On this Santa Cruz, California TV Show, Becky Johnson and Lee Caplan examine the videos and other evidence of Rachel Corrie’s death, including IDF footage of the incident.

A Lebanese soldier watching Hizbullah supporters protest against the fighting in the Gaza strip, at the Fatima Gate border point in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila.

The Arab League and the anti-Israel left wing activists in the US, Europe and Israel commonly claim that any Jewish building outside of the 1949 Armistice lines is illegal and contravenes international law. They fail to point out what provision of which international law is violated, but they point out that most of the members [...]

Interesting original NY Times coverage of Jabotinsky’s 1921 Zionist Convention.

by D. LLOYD GEORGE, 1923
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
In the sight of these fanatics, Jews of-today can do nothing right.
If they are rich they are birds of prey.If they are poor they are vermin. If they are in favour of war, that is [...]

This is a fascinating account of something probably most of us don’t remember very clearly. If you are middle aged now, you were a child or a teenager in 1970, and you probably remember there were many hijackings in those days, and maybe something about Palestinians and Jordan and fighting in the Mideast, but chances [...]

From Danielpipes.org: 10-8-07
The Arab-Israeli conflict is often said, not just by extremists, to be the world’s most dangerous conflict – and, accordingly, Israel is judged the world’s most belligerent country.
For example, British prime minister Tony Blair told the U.S. Congress in July 2003 that “Terrorism will not be defeated without peace in the Middle East [...]

The first time this has happened since the Temple was destroyed.