Barry Shaw is the International Public Diplomacy Director of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
His books, available on Amazon, include:
By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The news in early April circled two attacks in Syria. One was the horrendous chemical weapons launched from Syrian warplanes. The world was sickened by the sight of dead and dying children and babies choking on the poison that descended on them from a threatening Syrian sky. The other […]
By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — At Pesach, fifteen years ago, Netanya suffered what became known as the Passover Massacre when a Palestinian suicide bomber walked into the banqueting hall of the Park Hotel and blew himself up as citizens gathered for the Seder service which recalls the Jewish people’s liberation from cruelty and oppression
This Pesach we will remember them Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The horror felt in Israel over a group calling themselves Jewish Voice for Peace hosting a convicted Palestinian terrorist guilty of murdering Jews is palpable. No words can adequately express the shock in the Jewish state to learn that an American Jewish group went out of their way to
Shock over salute to Jew-killer by Jewish group Read More »
Barry Shaw, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Remember the hysteria at the start of March over a wave of bomb threats to Jewish Community Centers and the desecration of graves in Jewish cemeteries? A plague of swastikas scrawling on Jewish buildings has been going on in America since November 2016. The blame was always dumped on
Anti- Semitism of the American Left Read More »
Barry Shaw, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — When Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke with President Trump at the White House press conference on February 15 he spoke about the inadmissibility of forcing Israel to live alongside a terrorist state of Palestine as the result of a global effort to establish a Palestinian state. Ignored by
Terrorists in Gaza, West Bank doom 2-State Solution Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — What is ignored by people advocating a two-state solution is the clear and present danger of Hamas in the West Bank. It is an inconvenient truth for international diplomats pressuring Israel to withdraw from the West Bank that Hamas has a growing presence there. Evidence of that has been seen
Why the two-state solution is delusional Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — As Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets off to meet President Trump in the White House on Wednesday the rumor is what is being called “the outside-in” strategic policy will be discussed to solve the Palestinian issue. This may be the final shot in trying to revive the failing
‘Outside-in’ approach to occupy Trump, Netanyahu Read More »
Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Palestinians threaten America! When the incoming Trump Administration spoke about the possibility of moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem the Palestinians began making threats. Hamas, the Islamic terror regime that controls the Gaza Strip, threatened a new upsurge of violence and terrorism by saying that the move would ”open
P.A.’s ridiculous protests against Jerusalem embassy Read More »
Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw HERZLIYA, Israel — The words and frightening rhetoric heard since Trump’s ascent to power is deeply troubling. The hateful terminology and threats on the streets of America resemble the atmosphere that was generated on the streets of Israel in the days leading to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister, Yizchak Rabin. When I
Hateful rhetoric can lead to deadly violence Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — I used to be a two-stater – until it blew up in my face with a spate of Palestinian terror bombings here in Netanya. This was after we signed a “peace” agreement with Arafat, the first Islamic arch-terrorist. Two-staters! I have two simple questions. Can you assure us we are
Why I no longer believe in a two state solution Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw HERZLIYA, Israel — One of the false mantras of the so-called Palestinian leadership and their BDS supporters is that they are being ethnically cleansed by the brutal Zionist occupiers. This despite that the Arab population is increasing by leaps and bounds and thanks to Israel their health and medical care has improved
Ethnic cleansing? That’s what Arabs did to the Jews! Read More »
Barry Shaw, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Attempts to achieve peace through inaction are bound to fail. Just ask the people of Aleppo. Attempts to achieve peace through appeasement are bound to fail. Just ask Neville Chamberlain. Peace only comes from assertive action that destroys a rampaging enemy’s will to survive. Just ask Winston Churchill. World
Nobel Peace Prize was Obama’s burden Read More »
Barry Shaw, International, Middle East, USABy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — I am gravely concerned that the Obama-Clinton team is involved in an ongoing subversion policy not only on a national scale but on a global one. Certainly, as far as Israel is concerned there is a grand deception going on. In his UN General Assembly speech, President Obama spoke
The illusion of a peaceful Palestinian state Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle EastBy Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — If you want to study the weakness of American foreign policy under the Obama-Clinton-Kerry Administration, just look at the Turkish-Kurdish-Syrian triangle. America’s formal position is that it opposes the Assad regime, that it looks on Turkey as a close ally, and that it arms the Kurds in their fight
U.S. should support the Kurds Read More »
Barry Shaw, Middle East, USA