In-depth
Don’t risk Israel’s security on Obama’s words
Sheldon Adelson lashes out at the president over his policies on Israel, in an opinion piece for JNS.org.
Think about Obama’s anti-Israel friends and mentors—radicals like Rashid Khalidi, Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, or the late Edward Said, the virulently anti-Israel professor under whom Obama studied. Has he made anti-Israel promises to them? Is Obama’s campaign rhetoric in support of Israel only creating “space” till after the election? These questions cause genuine worry in Israel.
Is the Glass Half Full for Syria’s Assad?
After more than 18 months, Bashar Assad is still in power, albeit over a decreasing percentage of his country, writes Tony Karon in Time.
Things are hardly looking good for Assad at this point. His prospects for defeating the rebellion and restoring control over all of Syria appear remote. He governs by naked force and fear of the alternative, and even then, over a shrinking domain. Still, he’s far from beaten, and if anything, the more immediate danger may be that Syria itself is breaking up into warring fiefdoms along the lines seen in neighboring Lebanon from the 1970s until 1992.
Daily Digest
- Times of Israel: Hezbollah calls for ceasefire to extract its fighters from Syria, rebels report
- Haaretz: More than half of contributions to Israeli politicians come from foreign donors
- Jerusalem Post: Gilad Schalit describes imprisonment in 1st interview
- Ynet: Report: Netanyahu agreed to full Golan Heights withdrawal
- New York Times: The Right Way for Turkey to Intervene in Syria
- Washington Post: ADL pulls out of interfaith talks over Israel
- Wall Street Journal: Turkey's Dangerous Assad Dilemma
