Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Olmert visited outgoing President Bush this week. Agence France-Presse reports that Secretary Rice said Palestinian-Israeli talks were “in pretty good shape” and that the failure to reach a deal was “largely because of the political situation…
Georgia/South Ossetia was anything but quiet. There had been skirmishes since the 1992-93 war, and small arms fire and sporadic shelling in the weeks before 7 August. Georgia claims Russian soldiers and armored vehicles, in place ahead of time, entered…
The United States and Iraq have signed a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that will govern the presence of American troops in Iraq after the UN Mandate ends on 31 December. Coming to terms was a long and messy process,…
Yesterday’s JINSA Report noting a specific diplomatic gesture by Saudi Arabia to Israel, which we believe signals real Saudi concern for Iran, provoked some outrage from our readers.
“Arab leaders decline to snub address by Israeli president.” The venue was a UN conference on religious tolerance, attended by heads of state and government from more than 80 countries. The norm, of course, is that when an Israeli representative…
It was “Veterans Sabbath” in the local synagogue. Three young men of the congregation, two graduates of Jewish Day School, talked about what motivated them to volunteer for the Marine Corps (two) and the Air Force (one), and how their…
In Israel yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acknowledged that shuttle diplomacy, billions of dollars and billions of Euros, Tony Blair, three American generals, the Annapolis Conference, the Road Map and the Quartet were not enough to create a Palestinian-Israeli…
There has been a tendency, particularly in Western Europe, to blame “the Bush administration” for every foreign policy difficulty, every war, every vicious act of terrorism, and every unhappy foreigner – particularly every unhappy Muslim radical, Sunni or Shiite.
America is an exceptional country; Americans are exceptional people. Anyone who didn’t get goose bumps at the redemption of America’s unique promise wasn’t paying attention. Anyone who didn’t hear an echo yesterday of Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King…
As we finally move toward the only thing that counts – the vote – we take as our priority that of former New York City Mayor Ed Koch who said in 2004, “Islamic terrorists want to destroy us.” So they…