by Daniel Pipes National Review Online September 11, 2012 Last week saw a dispute over Jerusalem at the Democratic National Convention that, in the context of similar incidents, provides an important insight into the party’s covert distancing of itself from Israel. The story broke on Sept. 4, when the Washington Free Beacon reported that “Jerusalem […]
The head of the British Secret Service, the MI6, made a secret visit to Israel to urge Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu not to attack Iran, the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. According to the report, Sir John Sawers delivered a clear message to Netanyahu that the British Government is opposed to action in Iran. The […]
Inside story of Obama’s struggle to keep Congress from controlling outcome of debt ceiling crisis By Bob Woodward President Obama summoned the top four congressional leaders to the White House on Saturday morning, July 23, 2011. The night before, House Speaker John A. Boehner had withdrawn from negotiations to raise the $14 trillion federal debt limit […]
The U.S. Coast Guard is facing a growing threat in the Caribbean: undersea drug trafficking. The New York Times recently recounted an incident where the sea service interdicted an illegal semisubmersible vessel smuggling cocaine from Colombia. U.S. security forces have long combated smugglers bringing drugs and other contraband into the country via the Gulf; however, […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online September 4, 2012 NRO title: “What the 2012 Election Means for Israel” “President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus.” That’s what Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, said in the high-profile speech accepting his party’s nomination last week, repeating a slang phrase for sacrificing a friend […]
The United States will have “little more than a year” to respond to Iran should the Islamic Republic decide to build a nuclear weapon, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Tuesday. “It’s roughly about a year right now. A little more than a year. And so … we think we will have the opportunity once […]
US Says No Deadlines for Iran September 10, 2012 15:13 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories: 1. Re-negotiating Israeli-Palestinian financial accords is a non-starter says Danny Ayalon. The Times of Israel writes: “I don’t […]
A crowd of Salafi Islamists swarmed over the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo today, tore down the American flag and replaced it with black banners proclaiming the Muslim declaration of faith: “There is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet.” This hostile action, coming on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, […]
Over the weekend, a draft of a cybersecurity executive order was shown to members of the press. Leaked reports of secretive decision making are what the U.S. gets when the President decides to ignore the democratic process and implement rules by executive fiat. The U.S. also gets policies that are often incomplete and poorly thought […]
One of the attention-grabbing scenes in the movie 2016: Obama’s America shows the President’s nuclear summit in 2009. The idea behind the summit was that if the United States led the world in cutting its nuclear arsenal, others would follow. We would be leveling the nuclear playing field, creating a world where many countries have […]
