February 2011

By Rabbi Dow Marmur  JERUSALEM–The heading of a recent article by the British journalist Brendan O’Neill is significant: “Palestine an obsession of the radical West, not Arabs” (www.theaustralian.com.au). He draws our attention to the fact that during the demonstrations in Egypt and elsewhere there were very few pro-Palestinian slogans: “Instead, this revolt was about Egyptian

By Rabbi Dow Marmur  JERUSALEM–I’m on the mailing list of an American-born Jerusalemite whose blog seems to be dedicated to bashing US President Obama. I stopped reading it regularly a long time ago but I made an exception today in the hope that, after the United States veto of the proposed Palestinian anti-settlement resolution in

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –On Thursday, we considered the difference between what Palestinian Authority leadership may have told American and Israeli “peace” negotiators and what they assuredly are telling their constituents. The disconnect means the Palestinian people are not being prepared for any sort of operative peace with a legitimate, sovereign state of Israel.

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Let history show that neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post reported on the return of the world’s single most important Islamic cleric to Cairo to begin what he hopes to be the transformation of Egypt into a revolutionary anti-American state. Yusuf al-Qaradawi spoke to a giant