The Perils of the Pre-1967 Proposal

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  May 20th at 02:30 PM  | 

There seems to be some confusion over why the Israelis should be so hostile to President Obama’s suggestion that the two-state solution be achieved by returning the Jewish state to its 1967 borders. The President’s supporters argue that since these borders were previously acceptable to Israel, they should be acceptable now.  After all, pre-1967 Israel fought to defend those borders and they were on the table | Read More »

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By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  March 23rd at 11:57 AM  | 

Earlier today a bomb exploded on a crowded public bus outside the Jerusalem convention center, injuring more than 40 people. As Jennifer Rubin reports via Hareetz, this is the worst terrorist attack in the city in seven years, and given recent terrorist aggression against Israel out of Gaza, particularly disturbing. The Obama administration response to this atrocity is stunning silence. Rubin also reports that no | Read More »

John Bolton grades the Obama Administration’s foreign policy record

By: Victoria Coates (Diary)  |  September 11th at 12:30 PM  | 

As part of part of Hillsdale College’s DC-based Kirby Center for the Constitution and Citizenship “First Principles on First Fridays” lecture series, John Bolton spoke at the Heritage Foundation today.  9/11 is of course a somber anniversary for our country, and a fitting moment to reflect on how how American foreign policy is being shaped in the post-George W. Bush era. In Ambassador Bolton’s view, it is not | Read More »