Who is to Blame for Bethlehem’s Strangulation of Christian Life?
As Christmas approaches in Bethlehem each year, fewer and fewer Christian residents take part – not because the tree in Bethlehem’s Manger Square is any less grand than the year before or because less money is allocated towards the festivities – quite the opposite, actually. While the Bethlehem Municipality has invested in marvelous concerts, carols, processions, a midnight mass, tourism and restored pillars in the Church of the Nativity, the fact remains that the Christian population is decreasing each year in the city where Christians believe Jesus was born.
Palestinian Children: Victims of Arab Apartheid
Mohammed Majdi Wahbeh, a three-year-old Palestinian boy from the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon, is the latest victim of apartheid and discriminatory laws targeting Palestinians in an Arab country.
Message to UN and Europe: Palestinian Terrorism Always Violates International Law
There can never be any greater form of power in world politics than power over death. Paradoxically, this pre-eminent form of power is almost entirely unrecognized by both scholars and policymakers.
Is She Really That Dumb?
Get to them before she does—before she solidifies their core.
In Israel, the Deception of Quiet has Been Shattered. Now What?
Terrorism threatens both Israeli and Palestinian civilians. The coming weeks will see whether Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be able to contain an escalating situation and roll back the violence, or whether the region will slide into a new and dangerous phase.
How Jeremy Corbyn Threatens Israel
Israel cannot wait to find out. Israel needs to act now to prepare itself for the day after a Corbyn government is formed.
The New Censorship
But deflecting anger about Europe’s past crimes isn’t justice and it harms the cause of human freedom everywhere. It’s a cheap dodge, for which Europe is paying a rising price. Let’s not make the same mistakes here.
Tenth of Tevet: Jerusalem is Under Siege Again
With the news about Australia recognizing West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, has anyone noticed the irony that it came within days of the Fast of Tevet?
The New Inquisition
The Left’s identity politics are becoming curiouser and curiouser for Jews.
Israel, Counter-Terrorism and the Future of Immortality
Even if now ritualistic Palestinian claims of a hostile “occupation” were to be accepted as reasonable, which they are not, corollary claims of entitlement to “any means necessary” would remain patently false.