Keeping Taxpayer Funds From Paying for Terror
I am gratified by yesterday's signing into law of the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act, a bill I authored in the House, restricting funding to a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. By fixing his hand to...
View ArticleHamas Victory Is a Defeat for Peace (Rep. Vito Fossella)
Hamas’ victory in seizing control of the Gaza Strip represents a defeat for peace, democracy and a sovereign Palestinian state. There is no negotiating with a terror group who’s singularly focused on...
View ArticlePalestinians Must End Incitement, Terrorism for Peace to Hold
Israelis are looking forward to the three-day visit of President George W. Bush -- his first visit to the country as president. For days, newspapers have been filled with the details of the president’s...
View ArticleBush, With A Month Left, Looks For Peace in Mideast
President Bush, who likes to say he's sprinting to the finish line, will make peace in the Middle East his focus one month and one day before he leaves office. Bush will host Palestinian Authority...
View ArticleFrom the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch — Originally published Tuesday, Dec. 30
Israel is acting in self-defense, as any country in its position would. If Gaza had not served as a launching pad for terrorism, then Israel would not have struck at the source. Abba Eban famously said...
View ArticleJ Street Criticizes Gaza Strikes
Israel's airstrikes on Hamas targets in Gaza are detrimental to prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, according to pro-Israel, pro-peace lobbying group J Street, which is calling for...
View ArticleRice Criticizes Hamas But Says U.S. Is Working Toward Cease-Fire
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had choice words for Hamas at the same time she said that the United States is working toward a cease-fire in Gaza. During a news conference Thursday, Rice said that...
View ArticleNot Much ‘Change,’ Probably, on Middle East Policy
As war rages in the Middle East and President-elect Obama stays mum, in deference to the one-president-at-a-time policy, the Arab world awaits long-anticipated change once he takes office. Anyone...
View ArticleHouse Stands by Israel (Rep. Steve Rothman)
On Friday, I joined my colleagues in the House of Representatives from both sides of the aisle in recognizing the democratic State of Israel’s right to defend itself against attacks from a terrorist...
View ArticleHamas and War Crimes
Note: Mr. Davis is a senior adviser and spokesman for The Israel Project, a nonprofit U.S. organization whose purpose is to get the facts out about Israel and its positions in the Middle East. — Ed....
View ArticleObama AWOL in War on Terror
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann President Obama’s record in battling terrorism has proven so weak that one wonders if he really takes the issue seriously. Since he has taken office, the president has:...
View ArticleIsrael boycott pushback picks up steam
The pushback against a boycott of Israeli colleges and universities by U.S. academic institutions appears to be gaining steam.The senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday called...
View ArticleAbbas to Obama: 'Time is not on our side'
President Obama said he would pursue the “elusive goal” of a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians during a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on...
View ArticleKerry, Abbas set to meet in London this week
Secretary of State John Kerry is set to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Thursday in London, the first time the two have sat down since the implosion of the U.S.-brokered peace talks late...
View ArticleObama: ‘I have no sympathy for Hamas’
President Obama on Wednesday said he has “no sympathy” for Hamas, the Palestinian group labeled a terrorist organization by the United States that has warred for the past month with Israel.Speaking...
View ArticleFour killed in attack on Jerusalem synagogue
The Federal Bureau of Investigation will investigate an attack on a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday that took the lives of three Americans, CNN has reported.Two Palestinian men reportedly entered the...
View ArticleLet’s stop normalizing the Palestinian movement
Consider this nightmare: Imagine that the United States helps create a militant regime hostile to individual liberty. Suppose this U.S.-funded, authoritarian regime becomes notorious for inciting...
View ArticleTrump is right to feel suckered: To promote Middle East peace, cut aid to...
In one of his forthright tweets, dated Jan. 2, President Trump declared: “It’s not only Pakistan that we pay billions of dollars to for nothing ... we pay the Palestinians HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF...
View ArticleUN must recognize, and stop assisting, Palestinian acts of terror
What if I were to pay $3 million dollars to have your father shot in the head? That’s the question I asked Michael Lynk, the United Nations’ so-called “special rapporteur” on Israel, this past week...
View ArticleHow to fix the UN’s anti-Israel club of dictators
Forget about college basketball. It was March Madness this week at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). This is a bracket where human rights abusers like China, Cuba, Pakistan, and Venezuela always...
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