What kind of an Israeli am I?

If the Good Book isn’t enough evidence for some people that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people, let’s point to archaeological evidence.

What Revolution? As American campuses roil, Israeli college students crack open the books.

There is no Jewish holiday that evokes such unbridled joy as Purim, one of the most widely celebrated festivals in Israel.

Needless to say, the wave of strikes battering the Holy City raises questions as to the right of groups to strike.

By allowing Ghattas to actively subvert against Israel, the message that the government sends is that fomenting violence is a legitimate form of expression.

In Israel and the United States, hope for national solidarity springs eternal.

Since it's not politically correct for a US president to call for the demise of the Jewish state, a death by a thousand UN resolutions will have to suffice.

Israel can blaze a trail and show that there is a steep price to be paid for the UN' relentless undermining of a country's sovereign right to manage its own affairs.

What explains the current state of pandemonium and uncertainty with regards to outstanding land issues in Judea and Samaria?

It’s the construction of a few dozen housing units over the Green Line, not the potentially global ramifications of Israel’s attacks on Hezbollah, which provokes a hysterical reaction from the media. If you missed the news about the Israeli Air force’s alleged bombing of an arms convoy belonging to Hezbollah and a Syrian Army site... Read more »

How does Israel benefit from its continued association with American Jewish organizations?

Regardless of where their life trajectories lead, my daughters are being raised to equate being Jewish not only with religion, dietary laws, a strange language and the Passover Seder, but to the core of their being.

A painfully small minority of Arab-Israelis seems to understand that the best way to solve a problem is to speak up, not silently acquiesce to attacks on Jewish men, women and children.

At its core, the religious intervention in secular society is fueled by a nagging self-doubt that Jewish Israel cannot possibly remain Jewish if left to its own devices.

It's a crying shame that B'Tselem and other like-minded groups weren't around during World War II to document some of the most outrageous examples of collective punishment.

The geopolitical landscape surrounding Israel is shifting in such a way that if navigated correctly could lead to full diplomatic relations between Jerusalem and Sunni Arab governments around the Middle East.

Ultimately, all continued reliance on the United States has done is stifle Israel’s ability to fully realize the founding principle of the Zionist enterprise: the creation of a sovereign, independent, defensible Jewish homeland.

This piece is a satire on the Palestinian Authority's culture of incitement, which includes the naming of streets in honor of terrorists.

Below is a letter I sent to my concerned family in response to the latest terror wave gripping Israel. Hey all, It’s gotten increasingly tense around here. Still, we go about our daily lives: working, taking the girls to pre-school, meeting friends, etc. I suppose the choice is simple: get busy living, or get busy... Read more »

Summer is nearly upon us. In Israel, this is traditionally a time for blasting the AC, heading to the beach…and rocket fire from Gaza. On Monday, the IDF deployed an Iron Dome anti-missile battery beside the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, in response to multiple rocket salvos that had been launched at Israel from the... Read more »

DJ POTUS (aka President Obama) seamlessly juxtaposes melodically progressive nuclear non-proliferation mantras like “Reset” with authoritarian breakout beats from renowned soprano MC Kim Jung-un, not to mention that world class Mix Master, Teheran’s own Ali ‘Special K’ Khameini. Yes, POTUS’s ‘Hello I Love You’ Nowruz serenade fell on deaf ears. But, it wasn’t buried by... Read more »

For all we know, a few other statements by leading Israeli politicians may have had as much, if not more, to do with the Likud party's decisive victory.

In this mutually assured delusion, Obama outsources US Middle East policy to Iran.

There is a deliciously cinematic quality to the entire speechgate drama. Prominent pro-Israeli lobby groups have attempted to frame the scene as something out of Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” movie: a noble, far sighted, embattled president vs. a rude, uncouth, divisive Israeli leader who is little more than a mouthpiece for a cabal of grim, narrow-minded,... Read more »