Hamas Driven Only by Hatred of Israel
Published by: Newsmax Monday, 14 July 2014 10:54 PM EDT The core of the problem is at the core of Hamas. Over the past few weeks, hundreds of rockets have been fired by Hamas into Israel, putting nearly six million Israelis under direct threat of terror. This Hamas offensive speaks to the incredibly difficult nature […]
How the United Nations Human Rights Council Unfairly Targets Israel
Published by: The Jerusalem Post JULY 30, 2014 5:38 PM EDT here are 1,725 words in the latest resolution released by the United Nations Human Rights Council, which cynically chastises Israel for so-called “human rights violations” in Gaza. Nowhere among those 1,725 words will you find the name of the terror organization that is truly responsible for […]
Widen The Israel Discussion On Campus
Published by: New York Jewish Week February 17, 2015 12:00 am In recent years, the Jewish community has become increasingly concerned with how Israel is perceived on American college campuses. I am asked frequently, mostly by anxious members of the community, about possible solutions to the problem. Throughout my career of more than 20 years, […]
Why Birthright Is The Real Game Changer for Israel
Published by: New York Jewish Week April 21, 2015 12:00 am For the first time in Israel’s 67 years of existence, the conversation surrounding the Jewish state has changed. Rather than seeing Israel as a place of conflict, young people are now looking at it as a place of opportunity. For their parents’ and grandparents’ […]
The Israel Day Parade
Published by: The Jerusalem Post MAY 31, 2015 22:01 Sixty-four years ago, prime minister David Ben-Gurion made a historic visit to New York City. He was given a hero’s welcome by one million New Yorkers who lined the sidewalks of 5th Avenue to cheer him on as he led a parade, showered with confetti and […]
Celebrate David Blatt, A Shining Example of Basketball’s Global Reach
Published by: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Jun 15, 2015 at 9:51 am Economists will look back at the month of June 2015 in Israel and see that productivity was down significantly. And thankfully it would not have been due to some sort of geopolitical crisis or a natural disaster. It is because millions of Israelis […]
The Problem: Iran’s Underlying Motives
Publised by: NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Jul 30, 2015 at 5:00 am Here is why you should be worried about the Iran nuclear deal: The agreement does not prevent Iran over time from threatening America and her allies with nuclear war. It does not permanently prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. But there’s more. The […]
Israel Must Untangle Its Narrative From That of the Palestinians
By SAM SOKOL. Published by: The Jerusalem Post AUGUST 6, 2015 07:13. Updated: AUGUST 6, 2015 07:14. In order to bolster its public relations efforts abroad, Israel must disentangle its narrative from that of the Palestinians and show the world that there is more to the Jewish state than the Arab-Israeli conflict, Ido Aharoni, consul- general of […]
Why it’s not too late to fix the Iran deal
Published by: New Haven Register Sep. 6, 2015 Just like the atomic bomb itself, the impact of the Iran deal could mean lasting harm for generations to come. By capitulating on principle after principle after principle during negotiations, the western powers have handed the Ayatollah regime a stamp of approval for their nuclear ambitions and […]
How Technology Has Revolutionized Diplomacy
Published by: TIME SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 2:38 PM EDT At the time of Benjamin Franklin’s stint as U.S. Ambassador in Paris, it would take about six months for his diplomatic dispatches to reach his government in Philadelphia. So if diplomacy was to be at all effective, ambassadors had to make fateful decisions on behalf of […]