Melani Phillips Those who persist in the delusion that the Middle East conflict is a fight over ‘Palestine’ between Israel and the ‘Palestinians’ should look at what happened last weekend, when terrorists fired Grad missiles from Egyptian territory not merely at Eilat, Israel’s tourist resort but also at Aqaba, Jordan’s tourist resort, where one Jordanian […]

GOC Northern Command: “This was a planned ambush”. Lt. Col. Harari was shot and killed IDF http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/News/today/10/08/0305.htm During the grave incident in the North, Lt. Col. (res.) Dov Harari was killed, and Cpt. (res.) Ezra Lakia was critically wounded. Maj. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot called it an “initiated and provocative action by the Lebanese army, without […]

By: Rabbi Steven Pruzansky Among the bitterest aspects of the ancient tragedies commemorated during our recent national period of mourning was the crushing disappointment felt by the Jewish people when we were betrayed by our erstwhile allies: “I called for my friends [those who had professed love for me] but they deceived me” (Eicha 1:19). […]

By Shani McManus and Sergio Carmona, Staff Writers Five years after the Israeli government uprooted more than 8,000 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, ceding the land to Palestinians in the hope of peace, some are calling the sacrifice a disaster. “Anyone who thinks the forced removal of Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip delivered […]

by Daniel Pipes April 13, 2005 http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/04/hamas-is-worse-than-israel-worse-than-sharon The speaker of those words is one Ziad Zaranda, the Gazan whose fiancée, Yusra Azzami, 20, was murdered because the couple were seen walking by the sea and Hamas operatives decided this act was so immoral, she deserved to die. The young couple’s tale is fraught with implications […]

by Efraim Karsh Jerusalem Post Shimon Peres, Israel’s 87-year-old president doesn’t usually arouse antagonism among Europeans. A tireless peace advocate for decades, and architect of the Oslo Process for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize, he has long presented Israel’s moderate face to the outside world. Yet last week he provoked anger among British […]

by Elad Benari (Israelnationalnews.com) Noam Nir, an Israeli businessman who lives and owns a property in Morocco, was shocked when he found out that the building he owns in the city of Mogador became the focus of an anti-Semitic demonstration. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Nir expressed a serious concern that such demonstrations, that were not […]

[IMRA: This item is from February but repeated now because it got into the news cycle again when JTA cited it] February 24, 2010 Support for Israel in U.S. at 63%, Near Record High Near-record-low 30% optimistic about Arab-Israeli peace by Lydia Saad www.gallup.com/poll/126155/Support-Israel-Near-Record-High.aspx [See www.gallup.com/poll/126155/Support-Israel-Near-Record-High.aspx for graphs] PRINCETON, NJ — For the first time […]

Whether they are from Turkey, Ireland or Cyprus, those that participate reek of hypocrisy. DANNY AYALON Israel’s deputy minister of foreign affairs A couple of years ago, a Palestinian refugee camp was encircled and laid siege to by an army of tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers. Attacks initiated by Palestinian militants triggered an overwhelming response […]

Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” YnetNews, July 29, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3926519,00.html Western policy-makers grow increasingly-reconciled to co-existence with a nuclear Iran. They assume that, notwithstanding the radical rhetoric, the Iranian leadership is pragmatic, cognizant of its limitations, unwilling to expose its people to devastating Western retaliation and considering nuclear capabilities as a tool of deterrence – and […]