On Sunday, Benjamin Netanyahu delivered what may turn out to be his final speech as the prime minister of Israel after the Knesset voted to approve a new government by a single vote — 60 to 59, with one abstention. Naftali…
This article presupposes some familiarity with some themes in my previous article that explained all the parties contending in Tuesday’s Israel elections. Contemplate a ballot with dozens of parties. Here we have Democrats, Republicans, sometimes a Green Party, sometimes Libertarians. Obama’s…
Last week, Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) agreed to a establishing full diplomatic relations. Unlike Israel’s treaties with Egypt and Jordan, this deal stands to become far greater than a “cold peace” limited to defense ties. According to…
Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis held a 17-point lead over Vice President George W. Bush in July 1988, as they prepared to contend for the White House. A month later Bush was up eight. And Bush won 40 states that November….
Who’s on first? What’s on second? I-Don’t-Know is on third. In case you have forgotten — or, even better, never knew — the April 2019 Israel national election resulted with Benjamin Netanyahu’s reigning Likud and Benjamin Gantz’s opposition Blue and…
Let’s be plain. As noted in this space a mere year ago, the American Left has a serious anti-Semitism problem. In the day, I said this: Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar tweeted out blatantly anti-Semitic messages, using what fellow Democrat…
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Former Vice President Joe Biden never measures up to that standard. In 2014, Bob Gates, who served as President Obama’s first secretary of defense, said that Biden had been wrong on…
When the British diplomat Robert Ker Porter arrived in the Persian city of Ispahan, having ventured there from St. Petersburg in 1817 to explore the vestiges of ancient Babylonia, and then to follow the route of Xenophon’s Katabasis, he could…
What began as a good week for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ended in his indictment for corruption. It is the first time that a sitting Israeli PM has been indicted. Early in the week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…
