Jerusalem.  And today we are celebrating Yom Yerushalayim — Jerusalem Day — the anniversary of the liberation by Israeli troops of eastern (historic Jewish) Jerusalem,

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