I cannot believe the President got the Peace Prize. Like Glenn Greenwald (Salon), when I…

Access to the Temple Mount is being restricted following Palestinian violence in Jerusalem. The JPost:…

Israel is a nation that has thrived largely due to an image which is wholly…

Mike Huckabee is not the only American politician to go to Israel and anger Palestinians this week.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) is leading a 29-member Democratic delegation on an AIPAC-sponsored tour of Israel. The junket follows the same itinerary as last week’s 25-member Republican House group led by Minority Whip Eric Cantor.

During the trip, Hoyer made a number of provocative statements which are at odds with the Obama administration’s current policy, although he did not criticize the President directly. The Majority Leader opined that the Palestinians were to blame for the stalled peace process because the U.S-designated Palestinian negotiation partner, Mahmoud Abbas, has wrongly insisted on Israeli compliance with a settlement freeze as a pre-condition for starting negotiations.

Even compared to the low ethical standards which most people, outside the United States, ascribe…

An opinion piece in the Jerusalem Post called Debra DeLee, the CEO (strange title) of…

Here is an interesting rumor to add to the murky mix of reports surrounding the…

The other day Ira Glunts did a fine post here saying that Israel has little interest in the peace process, and that Netanyahu is just playing intransigent foot-dragging tricks with Obama over a semi-fake issue, freezing settlements. I asked Glunts:…

Ira Glunts writes: The flap over the settlement freeze is an indication of the difficulty the U.S. will continue to encounter in any effort to obtain Israeli cooperation with Obama’s two-state solution plans. The Netanyahu government is not interested in…

Ira Glunts writes: President Obama’s popularity, though never high among Israelis, has tanked following the US administration’s recent confrontation with Prime Minister Netanyahu over settlement expansion. According to a recent poll sponsored by the Jerusalem Post only 6% of Israelis…