Today marks 30 years of peace between Israel and Egypt. "The Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel" signed on March 26, 1979, stands not only as a testament to the enduring value of personal honor and astute diplomacy but serves as a beacon of hope for all who aspire to a lasting peace in that troubled region. ...more

March 26, 2009

About 500 people recently attended an afternoon and evening of education and culture to bless and benefit Israel. ...more

March 4, 2009

About 500 people recently attended an afternoon and evening of education and culture to bless and benefit Israel. ...more

March 4, 2009

On that awful evening of September 11, 2001, my gaze alternating between my television screen and my computer screen, I wrote a column called "Now We Know How Israel Feels." In that piece, I retold the true story of Ken Rex McElroy of Skidmore, Mo., a local bully who terrorized an entire rural county until, after years of abuse, theft, rape and attempted murder, a handful of Skidmore citizens shot him to death on Main Street in broad daylight. Recently, like those citizens in Skidmore, the nation of Israel had had enough. ...more

January 7, 2009

Syndicated columnist Charley Reese a fixture in print editions of The Suncoast News for nearly 30 years, has written his ...more

September 6, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama stepped gingerly through the intractable politics of the Middle East on Wednesday, offering resolute support for Israel's security, warning that Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons would be a "game-changing" event for the world, and pledging to make peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians one of his highest priorities if he becomes president. ...more

July 24, 2008

Sen. John McCain on Thursday rejected the endorsement of the Rev. John Hagee, a televangelist, after a watchdog group released a recording of a sermon in which Hagee said Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust had been part of God's plan to chase the Jews from Europe and drive them to Palestine. ...more

May 23, 2008

He was in his 20s during one of the most turbulent times in European history. Almost every Jew in his small Polish town died during the Holocaust. ...more

January 13, 2008

For six decades, Sam Sabbagh carried a good luck charm - a parchment he found on the floor of a burned synagogue. ...more

November 11, 2007

Deaf Idiot Regarding "Blind Hypocrisy" (Letters, Nov. 1): Daniel Quinn compares the state of Israel's right to exist with Iran's right to develop and possess a nuclear weapon? ...more

November 3, 2007