The time is ripe for the Palestinians to ride the crest of change sweeping the Arab world. A democratic state of Palestine is well within their grasp. To achieve it, they need only follow the successful Jewish model that led to the rebirth of Israel following World War II.

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Our Republican friends will do their darndest to convince us that the answer is Barack Obama. President Obama is not perfect, but let's compare him to his predecessors rather than to perfection.

George W. Bush (43) pressured Israel to allow Hamas to participate in Gaza elections...

The progressive movement has been tarred by a vocal minority that seeks to criticize Israel at every opportunity. It's time for the progressive community to stand up and show its support for Israel.

Israel is a progressive's dream: "Universal education, universal health care, equal rights, minority rights...

After two years, it is clear that none of the flights of fancy imagined by our Republican friends about Barack Obama's fitness for office have come to pass. President Obama's record after two years in office is outstanding from a pro-Israel perspective.

Twice in the last decade, Israel offered to cede nearly all of Judea and Samaria to the Palestinians, only to be rebuffed. It's time for a new paradigm: Instead of rewarding Palestinian intransigence by pressuring Israel to stop settlement growth, the United States should tell the Palestinians that time is...

In its September 13, 2010 issue, Time magazine asks the wrong question. The question isn't why Israel doesn't care about peace. The question is why the Arab world refuses to make peace with Israel.

Israel's entire history is an unending willingness to trade land for the hope...

Certain mischaracterizations of President Obama's June 4, 2009 Cairo speech
have become so ingrained that what he actually said in Cairo has almost become a footnote. Let's go with the facts, not the legends:

1. Obama never referred to 60 years of "occupation."

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) is a good friend of Israel who deserves our enthusiastic support over self-proclaimed Tea Party Republican Joel Pollak.

Maybe I'm old-school, but the pro-Israel community has historically judged incumbents on their record in Congress. Jan's record on Israel is perfect:

• Jan co-sponsored of H.Res....

Not everything is gray. Sometimes there is such a thing as right and wrong, and the cynical attempt by supporters of Hamas to send a flotilla to Gaza should be condemned by everyone who genuinely wants peace in the Middle East.

Hamas has fired thousands of rockets into Israel, even...

As much as we may be disappointed in the Administration's behavior during the past two weeks, we need to keep the situation in perspective. If Benjamin Netanyahu can rise above it, so can we.

If our goal is peace, the Administration should be pressuring the Palestinians, not Israel....

While we try to sort through the facts about Broadway Bank, let's not forget the most important fact of all: Unless it turns out that Alexi Giannoulias did anything illegal--and no one is alleging that he did--Broadway Bank is among the least important issues in this...

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) has been my Congressman since he was elected in 2000. Tonight, he won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. The other President from Illinois said "you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Kirk can't fool all the people, but he fooled enough...

Let us not forget in the wake of Martha Coakley's defeat that there is a reason why we are, or should be, Democrats. Not "independents." Democrats. I write from the perspective of an American Jew, but many Americans of all ethnicities and religions share the values that make them Democrats...

Political pundits are like astrologers and psychics: They get away with making outlandish predictions and are remembered when lightning strikes and they guess right, but rarely are they called to account for a litany of missed calls that would put weather forecasters and stock market analysts to shame. We were...