Jewish worshippers Tuesday were stunned to find Arabs had desecrated the graves of the Biblical Joshua, Caleb and Nun (Joshua’s father).

Joshua served as the Jewish Nation's Prime Minister from the year 2488 until 2516 on the Hebrew calendar (1272 BCE - 1300 BCE).

Members of the One Shechem organization that organizes visits to the graves arrived in the village of Timnat (Kifl) Haress, near Ariel in Samaria, to prepare for a special prayer gathering, discovered that Arab vandals had desecrated the village’s Jewish tombs.  The tombs of Yehoshua (Joshua) ben Nun, Nun, and Calev (Caleb) ben Yefuneh were covered with garbage and feces – both human and animal, and anti-Semitic and Nazi slogans and symbols had been painted in the area.

Nevertheless, worshippers gathered at the tombs Tuesday night for special prayers on the tenth of Tevet, the day Kaddish and other prayers are recited for those whose date of death is unknown, such as Calev ben Yefuneh. Organizers had cleaned up the damage and attendees reported a positive experience.

The prayers were also to mark the end of the 30-day increased-stricture mourning period for murdered Jewish father Ido Zoldan of Kedumim, by a Palestinian Authority police officer.

Organizers reported that a wide array of Jews – hareidi, national religious and traditional – took part in the visit and prayers. They also praised the cooperation of security forces, particularly the Efraim Division of the IDF.

The One Shechem organization issued a call to the public to do everything in their power to preserve the holy sites in Samaria, including Joseph’s Tomb in Shechem and to fight for the right of Jews to visit and worship there freely.

Click here for an Arutz-7 Exclusive Photo Essay of a midnight visit to the graves of Joshua, Calev and Nun.

Speaking with IDF Army Radio on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Chaim Ramon acknowledged that Israel would continue construction within some of the larger Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria. However, he added, parts of pre-1967 Israel will be
Blocs of communities, Ramon said, will ultimately be formally annexed to Israel.
relinquished to the Palestinian Authority in return for those settlement blocs retained.

Those blocs of communities, Ramon said, will ultimately be formally annexed to Israel. The Deputy Prime Minister further acknowledged that the partition wall cutting through Judea and Samaria - which is touted as a security barrier to prevent incursion by PA suicide bombers - is to be the future border of a Palestinian state.

A swap with the PA of post-1967 Israeli territories in exchange for areas inside pre-1967 Israel not a new concept; however, Ramon's statements were the first public endorsement of the idea by a highly placed government figure. The Geneva Initiative, a non-governmental model agreement negotiated by prominent left-wing Israeli figures and PLO representatives in 2003, proposed a 1:1 exchange of 2.2% of the land of Judea and Samaria. Ramon cited no figures for his proposed territorial exchange.

"The Palestinians won't say that this is good," Ramon told IDF Army Radio, "but there is no doubt the Palestinians understand that, at the conclusion of the peace process, the settlement blocs will be under Israeli sovereignty in return for a land swap."

Despite public statements by second-tier officials, the PA has never acknowledged the right of Jews to live anywhere in eastern Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria or Gaza.

In August, rumors of proposals for a land swap that would include Israel turning over several Arab-majority cities inside pre-1967 Israel prompted the Prime Minister's Office to declare: "Such a plan has not been considered, nor is it being raised for discussion in any forum."

Earlier this month, in a previous IDF Army Radio interview, Deputy Prime Minister Ramon said that, while Israel will not give up its recently announced 307-home building project in the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, Israel cannot expect to receive American support unless it gives away parts of Jerusalem to the PA. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has demanded that Israel cede the eastern half of the capital. Ramon further suggested that Israel should keep Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem and give away Arab ones in order to maintain a stronger Jewish majority.

"This is the right thing to do," Ramon said. "This way we will not be drawn into an unnecessary annexation especially when we need the backing of the United States."

Israel already annexed the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967, following liberation of the city from Jordanian occupation in the Six Day War.

Israel’s Housing Ministry has begun renewing the Jewish neighborhood of Atarot in northeastern Jerusalem which was destroyed by the Arabs in 1948 and liberated by Israel in 1967.

The existence of the plan was revealed by a Haaretz report and confirmed by the Housing Ministry. The neighborhood is in or adjacent to the area of land that was the subject of an article published on Arutz-7 on JNF land being grabbed by Arab squatters.

“Housing Minister Ze'ev Boim has given the green light for planning a new Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem, despite the fact that senior American officials say Israel had promised not to move forward with the project,” Haaretz reported, proudly saying its report earlier this year on the plan had elicited pressure from the US State Department to shelve it. Boim met with Israel Lands Administration head Ya'akov Efrati to finalize the permit last week.

Atarot's land was owned by Jews since the early 1900s.

The new neighborhood will consist of 10,000-15,000 housing units – constituting the largest neighborhood built in Jerusalem’s eastern side since it was liberated in 1967. It is adjacent to the Atarot Industrial Zone, Jerusalem’s largest industrial park, with 160 factories and businesses.

In 1914, the site was settled by Zionist youth of the Second Aliyah, including Levi Eshkol, who later served as Prime Minister. They erected a communal farm called Moshav Atarot, which was destroyed by the Jordanians during the 1948 War of Independence and the land occupied for the next 19 years.

Following the 1967 Six Day War, Atarot was returned to Jewish hands. A British air strip built atop the Jewish farmland during the British Mandate became the Atarot Airport, Jerusalem’s only civilian air strip.

After Yitzhak Rabin's government created the Palestinian Authority and granted it tens of thousands of assault rifles, sniper fire forced the airport to close down at the start of the Oslo War in 2000.

The master plan for the neighborhood reportedly includes a tunnel linking it to the Binyamin community of Tel Zion.

Human rights week in Israel heralds the publication of a plethora of reports by groups funded by the European Union and the New Israel Fund, on the alleged mistreatment of Arabs in Israel. In response, the Yesha Human Rights Organization published its own report on the status of human rights among the Jews of Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

Yesha Human Rights Organization Chairperson Orit Strook prefaces the report, writing that the public residing in Yesha (the Hebrew acronym for Judea, Samaria and Gaza) has “suffered public and blatant trampling of its basic rights, but has received almost no defense from the human rights organizations.”

Strook explains why the Yesha Human Rights Organization was founded: “Over the years, it became clear that there was a need for a human rights organization ‘of our own,’ which would relate to the Yesha settlers as human beings possessing rights, and not as second, third or fourth class citizens. The Yesha Human Rights Organization tries to provide for the various needs resulting from the trampling of the rights of these residents by government authorities.”

The report deals with eight areas of particularly blatant discrimination: “To our great sorrow, in each of these areas, residents of Yesha did not receive any support from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), which often took a stance negating the residents’ most basic rights. We are prepared to provide individuals and lawyers involved in each one of these realms with evidence which further illustrates the phenomenon.”

The sections of the report will be reprinted by Arutz-7 over the coming days (Click here for part one and here for part two):

During these days, the early days of winter, the spotlights are always shined upon the Arab “olive harvesters.” The IDF and police coordinate to enable them to carry out the harvest up to the last olive. The media deploy to photograph and document the harvest and any conflict that may accompany it. The leftist groups deploy to accompany the harvesters and to turn a simple agricultural event into an international incident filled with tension and violence. The focus is placed on the right of the Arab farmer in Judea and Samaria to benefit from the fruits of his labor and the inextricable connection he has with the land and its bounty.

The Yesha Human Rights Organization has published a report entitled “Who Will Defend my Olive?” The report, which examined the cases of more than 50 Jewish farmers in Judea and Samaria, reveals the mirror image of the Arab olive pickers: the continuing suffering of the Jewish farmers in the very same region. These farmers, all of whom work the land according to the law, daily suffer serious incidents at the hands of their Arab neighbors, backed, and even incited, by the same left-wing activists - champions of the rights of the citizen and farmer.

The damages inflicted upon the farmers stand in the hundreds of thousands of shekels and the heartache of a farmer whose crop is destroyed intentionally and with malice is impossible to estimate. The arms of the law of the State of Israel, harassed and overburdened with defending the Arab olive-pickers, do next to nothing to protect the Jewish ones, and the media provides almost no coverage of their plight and pain.

The facts presented by the report indicate that the phenomenon of systematic targeting of Jewish farmers in Judea and Samaria is widespread to the point of being a national problem, but the law enforcement agencies of the State of Israel are doing nothing to combat it. At the same time, huge amounts of energy and resources are spent protecting Arab farmers, at times even at the expense of others’ civil rights (example: administrative detention and retraining orders against Jewish residents) and security (example: authorizing Arab farming immediately adjacent to Jewish towns which present desirable targets to Arab terrorists).

The report exposes the absurd situation created in Judea and Samaria whereby on the same piece of land there is blatant discrimination in the enforcement of law with regard to two different populations: heightened enforcement aimed at protecting the Arab farmer and insufficient enforcement that abandons the Jewish farmer and his fields.

The conclusion of the report stresses that there is no need to recommend new ways of improving the enforcement against the rioters and vandals. It would be enough if the State Prosecution, Police, Shabak (GSS) and IDF decided to enact a policy of equal enforcement, to use all the same tools and take all the steps to protect Jewish farmers as are currently used against those who try to attack or harm Arab olive-pickers.

In any event, it is clear that the current situation is untenable; it is unacceptable from the basic value of equality before the law. It is crucial that the old policies be ended and that fair and equal treatment be granted to Jewish farmers in Judea and Samaria as well.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told members of his Kadima party Tuesday night that terrorists who are firing mortar shells and Kassam rockets at Israel will not be able to hide from the IDF. 

The warning was issued after a 14-hour period in which at least 11 Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists in Gaza were eliminated by IAF fighter pilots. The dead included Majed Harazin, the most senior Islamic Jihad terror commander to be killed by Israeli forces in more than a year, as well as several other top field commanders in the terrorist organization.

The air strikes followed an intensified spate of mortar and Kassam rocket attacks on communities in the western Negev that began earlier in the week. On Sunday a two-year-old toddler was lightly injured, and seven people, including the baby's pregnant mother, suffered shock when a rocket hit a house in Kibbutz Zikim.

"Anyone who is responsible for the firing on our communities, we will reach him," vowed Olmert. "The actions will speak for themselves, and the heads of the terror groups will feel it."

As IAF planes raced through the skies over Gaza, mortars and rockets were flying into the western Negev. One Kassam exploded directly in an IDF army base near Kibbutz Zikim. Five female soldiers suffered shock, and one was evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon for follow-up treatment.

Earlier, one Kassam rocket landed harmlessly in an area north of Sderot Tuesday night. Mortars also landed harmlessly in open fields outside of Kibbutz Nachal Oz and Kibbutz Kerem Shalom Tuesday afternoon.

At the funeral for the killed terrorists in Gaza, the Islamic Jihad group ordered its operatives to turn off their cell phones, remove the batteries and stay out of their cars in order to avoid tracking by the IDF.

Israeli Officials Update US Security Envoy
Top Israeli officials met individually with United States Middle East security envoy General James Jones during his 24-hour whirlwind visit to the Jewish State.

Prime Minister Olmert pledged his cooperation with General James Jones's assignment to oversee compliance by Israel and the Palestinian Authority in fulfilling their commitments under the American Roadmap peace plan.
Part of the plan requires the PA to cease all terrorism and violence against Israeli citizens and dismantle terrorist infrastructure.

IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi met with Jones at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, along with a number of Israeli and American diplomatic and defense officials.

The American general was briefed on the security challenges facing Israel. with a specific focus on the intense situation in Gaza and related issues in Judea and Samaria. 

Lt.-Gen. Ashkenazi also explained to the American envoy methods used by the IDF to combat these security threats.

Once and for all: The government has finally paved the way for the replacing of Pro-PLO Greek Orthodox Church Patriarch Irineos by Theophilos, to the relief of large sectors of the Christian world.

The Cabinet made the decision to approve Theophilus in its most recent weekly meeting, following the recommendation of the relevant ministerial committee.  The committee, headed by former Shin Bet (General Security Services) Chief of Operations and current Pensioners Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan, made its recommendation a month and a half ago.

Extensive Land Holdings
Theophilos was originally elected patriarch by the Greek Orthodox Synod in 2005, but Israel’s approval – along with those of Jordan and the Palestinian Authority - are all required in order to validate the election. The Greek Orthodox Church numbers about 100,000 faithful, most of them Arabs, and is considered the richest church in Israel. The Church Patriarch has responsibility for its extensive land holdings, which include the land on which the Knesset was built, the Prime Minister’s and the President’s official residences, parts of Jerusalem’s wealthiest neighborhoods, locations in the Old City and in the new Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, in the Galilee, near Beit Shemesh, and elsewhere.

Why the Delay?
While delaying its approval for the past two years, the government established committees to investigate the religious, political and security ramifications of the appointment of Theophilos.  He adds, however, that many within and without Israel criticized the long delay – and suspicions were raised that it concerned private real estate considerations involving persons close to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Israel’s daily Yediot Acharonot reported in detail several months ago that the delay was meant to pressure Theophilos to agree to sell Church land near Beit Shemesh to a company connected with a friend of Olmert.  The Prime Minister’s Bureau has denied the allegations, saying they were totally groundless.

Israel’s image suffered during this period in the Christian world, which brought heavy pressure to bear upon Israel to give its approval. In addition, the delay meant that Irineos, whose pro-Palestinian positions have been well-documented, officially continued in office.

On July 17, 2001, Irineos wrote a personal letter to Arafat, saying, "You are aware of the sentiments of disgust and disrespect that all the Holy Sepulchre fathers are feeling for the descendants of the crucifiers of our Lord... actual crucifiers of your people, Sionists [sic] Jewish conquerors of the Holy Land of Palestine." In the letter, he asks Arafat for his support, promising that if he is elected head of the church, "rest assured, Mr. President, that the rights of our most beloved Palestinian people on the Holy City of Jerusalem will find the most 'hot' supporter."

No Land to Jews?
Minister of Religious Affairs Yitzchak Cohen (Shas) raised objections to Theophilos’ appointment on the grounds that Theophilos had said he would not approve real estate deals.  Following this lead, many reports referred to Theophilus as the "No Land to Jews" Patriarch.  However, Minister Cohen was not present at the ministerial committee session at which representatives of Theophilos explained that this was a general position expressed by all the candidates for the job, and that it essentially related to one specific deal – the purchase of two hotels near Jaffa Gate in the Old City.

One of the hotels purchased by Jews at Jaffa Gate
Photo: Historama.com

The sale in question was first reported in March 2005, when the Church sold two Jaffa Gate hotels and neighboring shops to Jewish interests.  Under heavy Palestinian Authority pressure, it later repudiated the sale. Church sources said that Irineos' trusted financial advisor Nicholas Papedemes made the deal in Irineos' name, and then fled the country with the money. Though Papedemes presented a document signed by Irineos authorizing him to carry out financial deals, Irineos said he never authorized the Jaffa Gate transaction.

Church officials tried to oust Irineos just two months later, in May 2005, by holding new patriarchal elections. 

The status of the hotels at present is not clear, and the matter will apparently be taken to court.  Theophilos has said he will take a stance based on the interests of the Church - in which, he added, is included the supremacy of local law.

Shimon Cohen contributed to this story.

State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss presented to the Knesset on Tuesday recommendations aimed at protecting employees who expose government corruption. The Comptroller drew up the document at the behest of the Knesset State Control Committee following a series of incidents in which whistle-blowers were dismissed from their
Lindenstrauss suggested reinforcing existing laws and regulations protecting whistle-blowers.
positions allegedly in retaliation for their actions.

Lindestrauss wrote to the Knesset committee that whistle-blowers are often ostracized by their colleagues, noting that even a past president of Israel refused to shake hands or take a picture with a whistle-blower. The president had justified his sanctions on the individual in question "so as not to encourage tattling," the Comptroller wrote.

To combat that attitude towards government employees who expose corrupt officials, Lindenstrauss suggested reinforcing existing laws and regulations protecting whistle-blowers who suffer retaliatory discrimination or dismissal.

"Past experience shows that the problem of attacks on those who expose acts of corruption at their place of employment has yet to be completely resolved," Lindenstrauss wrote. "Legislation and public support succeed in protecting the whistle-blower only in rare cases, because even when the acts of exposed corruption is proven, it is very rare that [the whistle-blower] wins the battle. The situation of someone who innocently blows the whistle on corruption but is unable to prove that his claims are justified is all the more serious."

As one form of temporary assistance to protect whistle-blowers, Lindenstrauss encouraged the practice whereby the Public Complaints Commissioner may intervene to prevent summary dismissals. Lindenstrauss also noted that the State Comptroller Law empowers the Comptroller to intervene on behalf of whistle-blowers suffering for their acts of good citizenship; however, he suggested enacting amendments that would reinforce those powers to include more effective investigation.

Lindenstrauss' recommendations included extending the legal protection of whistle-blowers to those employees not currently included in existing laws, as well as legislating legal protection for those who expose inappropriate behavior - and not just corruption - by public officials.

Whistle-Blowers are 'the Commandos of Public Service'
Chairman of the Knesset Control Committee, Knesset Member Zevulun Orlev (National Religious Party) praised the State Comptroller's report, adding, "It pains me to see that sometimes the whistle-blowers are delegitimized instead of those who are engaging in the actual corruption." He called those who expose government corruption "the commando forces of the public in the service of clean government."

MK Orlev said that those combating corruption must be granted the heightened protection outlined in the Comptroller's report. "They are exposed to many dangers including ostracism and being fired, and only a select number of special people are able to stand up to that," he said.

The Knesset anti-corruption lobby, headed by Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad (National Union), praised the State Comptroller, saying, "The [Lindenstrauss] report outlines a proper course for protecting [whistle-blowers] and presents additional legal tools to be used in their defense."

MK Eldad said he plans to present the guidelines delineated by the State Comptroller as legislation in the near future. He also intends to work with the anti-corruption lobby to change the public perception of those who expose corruption, calling them "the main
State employees who exposed political corruption alleged that they were dismissed from their jobs in retaliation.
weapon" in the fight for clean government.

The Comptroller's report on protecting whistle-blowers was filed against a background of two recent cases in which state employees who exposed political corruption alleged that they were dismissed from their jobs in retaliation.

Dr. Yaron Zelicha, the Finance Ministry's former Accountant-General, testified to police that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attempted to change the terms of the sale of Bank Leumi for the benefit of two cronies. Current Finance Minister Roni Bar-On attempted to cut short Zelicha's term in office, because, Zelicha claims, he blew the whistle on Olmert. State Comptroller Lindenstrauss intervened to prevent the dismissal, but now Zelicha himself is under investigation by the Civil Service Commission.

Making a similar claim to that of Dr. Zelicha, Maayan Agam, a Histadrut labor union employee, filed a suit in October asking a Tel Aviv court to issue a temporary protection order allowing her to keep her job. Agam was recently fired after exposing several cases of corruption within the Histadrut over the past two years, including the case against former Finance Minister Avraham Hirschson.

Agam claims that Hirschson orchestrated her dismissal and, before she was fired, used his ties within the agency to disrupt her ability to work. She is requesting an injunction and NIS 500,000 in damages.  

Though many in the nationalist camp are pushing for a large-scale offensive, or even an all-out invasion to fight Gaza-Hamas terrorism, some prefer trying other tactics first.  Former Defense and Foreign Minister Moshe Arens and Chaim Yoavi-Rabinowitz weigh in.

Yoavi-Rabinowitz, a long-time Likud party member who writes frequently on issues concerning the integrity of the Land of Israel, quotes reports stating that a full-scale offensive could cost 100 IDF casualties.  Yoavi-Rabinowitz writes:
The IDF abandoned its positions in the Gaza Strip at Sharon's orders, and now, in order to return to the exact same positions, we have to pay with 100 dead soldiers! Who should pay this price??


"The IDF abandoned its positions in the Gaza Strip at [ex-Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon's orders, and now, in order to return to the exact same positions, we have to pay with 100 dead soldiers! Who will bear the responsibility for it?"

"It is worth noting," Yoavi-Rabinowitz notes, "that during the expulsion of the Jews of Gush Katif from their homes, they warned that Kassam rockets would fall in Sderot and Ashkelon, and that they themselves would be required to send their sons to return to Gaza - but the people of Kadima, the left-wing and the media scorned them."

What does Yoavi-Rabinowitz propose? "If we have already stupidly run away from Gaza, then let us truly disengage totally and absolutely from Gaza. We should close off all the passages, and stop all deliveries of fuel, electricity and money. Let the Egyptians worry about their brothers in Gaza. Within two weeks, the rockets will stop - and if not, then we can talk about other offensive action."

The author bitingly suggests that if an IDF offensive is nonetheless launched, it should be carried out by, among others, "the sons of the politicians who voted for the Disengagement, the soldiers and policemen who perpetrated the actual expulsion and destruction, the policemen who brutally beat the anti-expulsion demonstrators, and the sons of the journalists who explained to us how great life would be after we run away from Gaza."

Moshe Arens: No Other Choice
On the other hand, former three-time Defense Minister Moshe Arens, also of the Likud, disagrees with the basic premise.  Writing in Haaretz on Monday, Arens declares that the fear of many casualties "is pure speculation. After months of preparation and training, and given the almost unlimited superiority of the IDF over the militants in the Gaza Strip, there is no reason why the cost should turn out to be prohibitive. In any case, all agree that the cost will only escalate as time goes by.  Those who consider it difficult at this time will surely find it impossible in the future."

Arens says the time to attack is now: "The army's chief-of-staff has said what everybody, other than this government's ministers, knows - that the only way to stop the rockets from coming down on the heads of the population living near the Gaza Strip is for the IDF to move in and move the rockets out of range."

Asked about the efficacy of cutting off electricity and other supplies to Gaza, Arens told Arutz-7 that this would simply not work: "The only way to protect the citizens of the south from the rockets in Gaza is to go in there." 
The only way to stop the rockets from coming down on the heads of the population living near the Gaza Strip is for the IDF to move in and move the rockets out of range.


Presented with the ethical argument against requiring citizens who objected to the expulsion to risk their lives to return to Gaza, Arens said, "The government, most of which supported the Disengagement, is well aware of this, and knows that an offensive in Gaza is an admission that they made a big mistake - as most of the country now believes.  But there is currently no other choice."

In response to the hackneyed claim that "Kassam rockets rained down on Israel even when the IDF was in Gaza," Arens writes that this is misleading: "The IDF left most of the Gaza Strip in the wake of the Oslo agreements, almost 15 years ago... From the limited areas in which the IDF was present prior to the disengagement, no rockets were fired against Israel. There is no reason to expect that rockets will be launched from areas which the IDF controls."

To those who say that once the IDF enters Gaza, it will not be able to leave, Arens says, "It is just this mindset that led to the fiasco of the Second Lebanon War... The prime minister's management of that war was labeled a 'failure' in the Winograd's Committee's interim report. But although the government claims to have implemented this report, they seem to have learned nothing. We are seeing daily a repetition of this failure in Sderot."

Close to 7,000 Kassam rockets and mortar shells have been fired from Gaza into southern Israel. The government is currently considering an IDF offensive into Gaza to halt the ongoing rocket attacks. Two mortar shells were fired Tuesday evening, following the IDF airstrikes which killed senior Arab terrorists.

American Presidential hopeful Senator John McCain has appointed as his Jewish advisor Mark Broxmeyer, a real estate magnate and former head of a powerful pro-Israel lobby. Broxmeyer, from Long Island, New York, was recently asked by Sen. McCain to serve on his National Finance Committee, where he will remain in addition to serving in his new position.

Broxmeyer graduated from Hofstra University in 1972 and went from there to co-found and become president of the multi-million dollar Fairfield Properties real estate agency in 1973.
 
He has been a large contributor to McCain's campaign, but Broxmeyer has given much more to politics besides money. Former President George Bush Sr. appointed him to the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, and he has served on New York Governor George Pataki's Board of Directors of the United Nations Development Corporation.

Broxmeyer also is highly involved with one of the most powerful pro-Israel lobbies, chairing the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a conservative Washington-based Israel advocacy and research institution. JINSA promotes cooperation between Israel and the United States on such crucial matters as security, missile defense, weaponry, terrorism, and the increase of weapons of mass destruction throughout the world.

He is considered an authority on Israeli security issues. Through JINSA, Broxmeyer has consulted with high-level security officials and diplomats from all over the world to help reinforce Israel's relationship with the U.S. and other key allies to achieve global peace. He often appears on television and radio news broadcasts as a reliable source on security issues.