Steven Sotloff should be ineligible for the Forward 50. Our list honors the living. But Sotloff, who was murdered by Islamic militants in the summer, merits special inclusion. To the end, he held fast to his beliefs, both as a journalist and as a Jew. If not for the fanatical ideology of his murderers, Sotloff…
President Barack Obama wrote to Iran’s supreme leader to tell him that cooperation in confronting Sunni Islamist extremists hinged on a successful nuclear deal. The secret letter, revealed Thursday in a Wall Street Journal report, is the fourth such correspondence between Obama and Ali Khamenei since Obama assumed office in 2009. Iran and the United…
Today’s lesson is about the importance of learning from history. You know what they say: Those who don’t are doomed to repeat it and all that. What they never tell you is how important it is to learn the right lesson. Otherwise you’ll just follow your first mistake with a bigger one. That’s the part…
A doctor who worked as a resident at a hospital in southern Israel joined ISIS and has been reported killed. Othman Abdal-Kian, 26, from the Bedouin village of Hura, located near Beersheba, had been doing his residency at Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon since February, after studying medicine in Jordan. The hospital confirmed to Israeli…
One of these things is just like the other: A strange new flareup in U.S.-Israeli relations erupted on Friday, after a speech by Secretary of State John Kerry drew furious objections from pair of ranking Israeli cabinet ministers. Kerry was discussing the ISIS threat before a Muslim audience in Washington. He spoke of the need…
In a potentially explosive report, veteran Yediot Ahronot defense commentator Ron Ben-Yishai writes on Ynet that Israel is headed toward a new confrontation with the United States and its allies in the wake of this summer’s Operation Protective Edge. The Americans and Europeans insist that Israel must strive for a two-state solution with the Palestinians,…
Among the some 100 girls and young women who have left France in recent weeks to join the ISIS in Syria was a Jewish girl, the Daily Mail reported citing French intelligence. The French security official, who spoke anonymously to the British newspaper, did not provide any other details on the Jewish girl, such as…
Benjamin Netanyahu’s comparison between ISIS and Hamas, repeated in recent weeks from every podium in the U.S. and in every TV network interview, gained little traction with the Obama administration which made clear it does not see the two terror groups as equal. But it resonated well with at least one audience: Christian supporters of…
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