Although it’s a popular mantra, few understand what it means.

During the last few decades, the Palestinian propaganda machine aided by anti-Israel elements in the international community have created one of the most powerful and effective emotional and psychological weapons to defeat Israel: “End the occupation.”

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Understanding-End-the-occupation-497554

"Professor" Virginia Tilley of SIU is one of the three anti-Semites responsible for the anti-Israel UN Report which was nixed by UN Sec. General Antonio Guterres after pressure from Amb. Nikki Haley. Meanwhile one of the three, an Arab UN Under Secretary Rima Khalaf, resigned. May there be many!

Here is my letter to Virginia Tilley on which I also copied the entire faculty and Dean of ISU.

Do not tell me you do not see the difference between Trump's Administration and Obama's with his hostile powerless Samantha Power.

Will Palestine exist in another generation? With the Trump administration gearing up for its meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week, it’s a question worth asking.The last thing the Trump administration should want is a repeat of the mistakes the Great Powers made a century ago when they created artificial countries.

Lawrence Solomon: Trying to create a Palestinian state would repeat mistakes that have led to so much Mideast bloodshed

This 2015 article by Italian journalist Giulio Meotti is as topical as ever

http://israelseen.com/2015/04/25/italian-journalist-giulio-meotti-why-israel-is-the-worlds-best-nation/

Here is a very important article for your consideration.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0516/prager050316.php3

Excerpt:

"And now there's Clinton and Trump. Nothing more clearly exemplifies the dark time in which we are living than this political version of Sophie's choice.

I will not end on a happy note because there isn't one; but neither will I despair.

One doesn't fight only when one is optimistic. One fights because it is the right thing to do, and because America remains, as Lincoln said, "the last best hope of earth.""

for millions of voters in America today, the choice they make in the voting booth for the highest office in the land is a choice that is made in much the same way that a new pair of boots, a stylish shirt, or some decorative item for the home is chosen:  what seems “cool”, what will impress their friends.

We can pay a lot now…or a lot more later

If a genie came out of a bottle and granted me three wishes, the first one would be that I could live in the alternate universe where McCain won in '08 and went on to get a second term.  There are many reasons for this, but among the most important is that in all likelihood, the matter of the Iranian nuclear weapons program would have been long since dealt with in a decisive manner.

The recent massacre at the Charlie Hebdo publication in Paris struck an unusually profound chord among the French public.  There had been other terrorist attacks in France, but with this particular incident, some four million Parisians took to the streets, a public demonstration of solidarity with the victims on a scale not seen since at least WW2.  They were demonstrating in solidarity with….what?