There is a good reason public opinion polls put Congress’s popularity at 14 percent in the middle of a national emergency. It is a know-nothing, do-nothing institution. Congress is so far behind the public curve that it should be ashamed…
It is complicated to be present in Jerusalem and talk both to Israelis and Palestinians about the future of the city. It requires timing and scripting to ensure that no one is angry when you leave. Sen. Obama worked hard…
In Sderot, Senator Obama was admirably unequivocal about Israel’s right to defend itself from Hamas. “I can assure you, if someone was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in…
It is hard to know exactly what Sen. Obama said to the various people with whom he met as he swept through Afghanistan, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel and visited the Palestinian Authority on what he called a “Senatorial fact-finding trip,”…
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown followed France’s Nicolas Sarkozy to the Knesset to talk about love of and defense of Israel. They both followed President Bush. Where Sarkozy quoted the Bible, Brown spoke of his father, a minister who served…
In January, President Bush visited the Palestinian Authority. We offered him some questions we thought might better acquaint him with Palestinian thinking on subjects of concern to the American people (see JINSA Report #735).
Note: If you make a deal to swap live killers for dead soldiers, don’t whine. The Israeli Embassy put out the following statement today: It is morally reprehensible that Samir Kuntar, a vile child-killer, is now being hailed as a…
The visit of Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini to Israel earlier this month was interestingly and happily normal, befitting the visit of a good friend. Italy currently commands UNIFIL in southern Lebanon, so the Minister met with IDF officials and…
It is almost a shame to criticize French President Sarkozy on Bastille Day. But it is his own fault for feting Bashar Assad this week in Paris – at the expense of Lebanon, Israel and the French army, not to…
It wasn’t a particularly good week for Iran. French oil giant Total is pulling out of a planned investment in a huge gas project in Iran’s South Pars gas field. Total, one of the few companies in the world thought…