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Vice President Joe Biden says the Palestinians deserve a state. He has traveled to the Mideast to press the Israelis to surrender more territory more quickly to what has been termed the Palestinian Authority. The Obama administration is giving $900 million of our money to the Mahmoud Abbas regime on the West Bank of the Jordan River, supposedly for "humanitarian" causes. This administration went out of its way to avoid being seen as "meddling" with Iran, but it shows no such restraint with Israel. Meanwhile, the Palestinians go on naming schools for suicide bombers and coaching their children to emulate...

A Byzantine mess for Greek Church The specter of anti-Semitism has once again raised its repulsive head, this time in, of all places, Jerusalem. The Greek Orthodox Church, the city's largest private landlord, is entangled in a complicated internal fight, at the core of which is the idea that it not lease land to Jews. Or, more precisely, that it no longer lease land to Jews. The Greek Church, the dominant Christian sect in the Holy Land, has a history of cordial relations with Israel. It has long offered long-term - really long-term - leases to Jews, including plots on...

How delusional do you have to be to insist that the only Palestinian you can negotiate with is Yassir Arafat? Does anyone find it strange that the European Union reportedly will send millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority to sustain its terrorist war on Israel? Or does this simply reflect the same European anti-Semitism that killed millions of Jews during WWII? Earlier this week, Arafat ordered the Palestinians holed up in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity to stay there, holding priests and nuns as hostages. This isn't just a Jewish versus Muslim war. It is one in which...