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Having just taught a course on the Cultural Geography of the Middle East at a community college in Florida for “seniors” (over 55 years of age), I again encountered a unanimous belief among my students in what I would call the Most Widely Believed Myth of the political and military conflict between Israel and the Arabs. This universal belief, never challenged by the media, is that the United States was wholly or largely responsible for fully supporting Israel on the ground from the very beginning of its independence in May, 1948. The world has been inundated with a tsunami of...

On Tuesday I posted that “the barrier of fear has been broken," after thousands of marauding Muslims tried to cross Israel's borders in an unprecedented act of war. Muslims from Gaza, invasions from Lebanon and Syria (orchestrated by Iran), and a truck jihad attack in Tel Aviv. It was the opening salvo. And hot on the heels of this new Islamic onslaught on the Jews, Obama declares today that the Jews should return to the Auschwitz borders. Why? I wrote this before Obama gave his jihadi message today: Never again? Well, not so much. What can be behind this lack...

A truck driver on Sunday hit a bus and several cars in Tel Aviv, killing a 29-year-old man in what police said was a suspected terror attack. Police said the truck struck vehicles for two kilometers from the Mesubim Junction along Bar Lev Street in Hatikva neighborhood in Tel Aviv. The man who was killed was identified as Aviv Morag and was apparently sitting in his car when he was hit by the truck. Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, speaking at the scene of the truck rampage, said, "Based on the level of destruction, and the number of people who have...