Author : Arlene

The original expectation that Syria would not retaliate for Israel’s hits inside of that country appears to be holding true: A Syrian government official has...

And thank Heaven that we do… Israel officials — government and military — have repeatedly said that we will not permit a situation in Syria...

Yesterday I wrote about certain things that PM Netanyahu said at the National Public Diplomacy Forum of the Foreign Ministry.  Today I want to look...

Sometimes it’s impossible not to weep. Yesterday morning, Evyatar Borovsky, 31, was knifed to death by a terrorist at the Tapuach Junction in Samaria.  Borovsky,...

It gets more and more awful.  More disgusting.  More distorted. The Times of Israel has the following headline this morning (emphasis added): “In sea change, Arab League...

No one from the upper military echelon of Israel is whispering in my ear, but the signs seem fairly unmistakable. Yesterday, Israeli Ambassador to the...

I had expected to move today to issues other than the Boston terror attack.  Barry Rubin, however, has written an excellent piece on this subject...

There is, of course, a lot of nonsense floating about with regard to terrorists Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — such as the claim by his...

I will not here have comment about the terrorist attack in Boston and subsequent events at MIT — even as I am watching it all...

Yom Ha’Atzmaut is over, and we return to “normal,” whatever that means today.  But first I want to extend the theme of Yom Ha’Atzmaut for...