Yoram Ettinger
ARTICLES BY: Yoram Ettinger
How a Palestinian State Would Harm the US
President Obama and Secretary Kerry intend to advance recognition of an independent Palestinian state by January 20, 2017, the end of Obama’s second term, irrespective of...
French Appeasement Déjà Vu
The French intent to recognize Palestinian statehood in Judea and Samaria, if the Israel-Palestinian negotiations fail, reflects the French policy of appeasing Palestinian terrorism (since the...
Hanukkah Guide for the Perplexed, 2015
1. Hanukkah’s historical context, according to the Books of the Maccabees, The Scroll of Antiochus and The War of the Jews by Joseph Ben Mattityahu (Josephus Plavius) is as...
The Sukkot Guide for the Perplexed, 2015
1. The U.S. connection: Columbus Day is celebrated around Sukkot. According to "Columbus Then and Now" (Miles Davidson, 1997, p. 268), Columbus arrived in America on Friday...
Yom Kippur Guide for the Perplexed, 2015
1. Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) is a major Jewish holiday of individual self-enhancement spiritually and perpetually, transforming acrimony and vindictiveness into forgiveness, peace of mind and peaceful...
Kerry’s Dangerous Fantasy
Irrespective of Western attempts to portray Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Jordan and Egypt as supporters of the Iran nuclear deal, leaders of these countries,...
On Iran Nuclear Deal, Beware of ‘Peace in Our Time’ Promise
National security and foreign policymakers should study a critical lesson from the medical profession: The failure to think beyond the stage one effect of painkillers...
The Nature of the Abbas Regime
The nature of President Mahmoud Abbas' Palestinian Authority has turned most Palestinians against the PA president and has led most Jerusalem Arabs to prefer Israeli...
The Israeli-Saudi Labyrinth
The recent increase in strategic coordination between Israel and Saudi Arabia brings to the forefront Israel's role in bolstering the national security of the House...
An Iranian Textbook Case
Iranian school textbooks, such as The Quran and Life (Grade 12) prepare Iranian children for the ayatollahs' sublime goal: the apocalyptic, horrifying, millenarian, military...
Shavuot and US-Israel Relations
U.S.-Israel relations have experienced many crises, beginning with the U.S. State Department's opposition to the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, the U.S. State...
Military Option Prevents War
The assertion that there are only two options in dealing with the rogue ayatollah regime -- negotiation or a military option, which supposedly amounts to...
Iran and Suspension of Disbelief
The term "suspension of disbelief" -- coined in 1817 by the philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- refers to a willingness to suspend one's critical...
Israel’s Economy Defies Logic
Irrespective of a cynical and gullible "elite" media, independent of diplomatic pressure, political correctness and conventional wisdom, in defiance of the global economic slowdown, in...
