“47 years ago the revolution started.  Which revolution?  The modern revolution of the Palestinian people’s history.  In fact, Palestine in its entirety is a revolution, since Umar came , and continuing today, and until the End of Days.  The reliable Hadith (tradition attributed to Muhammad), in the...
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EMET does not, as a matter of policy, support or oppose political candidates or any political party. However, we feel it appropriate to comment substantively on a political figure’s foreign policy positions, especially those jeopardizing the national security of the United States and her allies, including Israel. With Republican Congressman Ron Paul coming in...
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world … — William Butler Yeats By all accounts, 2011 has been a cataclysmic year in the Middle East. What began with a government official’s harassment of Mohamed Bouazizi,...
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(ed. note: The following was written by Arlene Kushner, formerly the Senior Analyst for the Center for Near East Policy Research, and currently serving that agency as a consultant. Additionally Arlene is an author, free-lance investigative journalist and blogger.  You can find a wealth of postings and investigative material at her website, www.arlenefromisrael.info. EMET...
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This past Friday at the Brookings Institute, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta excoriated Israel for the lack of progress in the peace process.  Sandwiching his remarks between the usual boilerplate platitudes, our Secretary of Defense made it absolutely clear that he and the administration feel that the responsibility  for the sorry state of affairs...
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Sunday morning, an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile commander and sixteen other IRGC officials were killed in an explosion at a base southwest of Teheran. Iranian officials called the explosion an accident during the transport of munitions, but there are a number of reasons to believe it was not. Firstly, the commander killed...
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Summary: Over the past year, events in the Middle East, including most notably the Arab Spring, have dramatically altered the security landscape facing the nation of Israel, as well as the national security interests of the United States in the region.  While each of these events have been well cataloged separately and in greater...
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“The Holocaust gave the Jewish people a fifty year respite from antisemitism. I am afraid it is back again”. —Eliot Cohen,  Renowned Author, Scholar and Professor at the SAIS school at John Hopkins. Hatred. Sheer, unadulterated, potent hatred.  It is back again, in full force, and it is directed against my people in an...
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How does one measure a heavy heart? Is there an instrument that can calibrate the considerable weight of the ambivalence that I am feeling today? I am spending the holiday of Sukkoth here in Israel, with my beautiful children, Rachel and Jeremy, who have just married, and who have recently made aliyah. My son-in-law,...
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By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler The Palestinian UN statehood bid — statehood without negotiations — which is now before the Security Council, is just the latest step in a never-ceasing effort by the Palestinian leadership to erase the State of Israel. This is the Two State Solution on the way to Hitler’s “Final...
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