By: Arnold S. Mazur Date: Tuesday, May 18 2010 Former president Jimmy Carter’s controversial twining of Israel and the “apartheid” epithet created quite the fuss, as has the Biden construction affair and its aftermath of bloodying the Israeli nose. Unsurprisingly, if leaky reports are true, lurking in the background of both stories is the second-rate […]

Brennan wants U.S. to speak to Hizballah ‘moderates’ The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has drawn attention to remarks by John Brennan, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security, in a speech in which he referred to his favorite city as “al-Quds, Jerusalem.” Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem and an “Al-Quds Day,” originally […]

By: Aaron Klein If Israel and the Palestinians fail to reach an agreement to create a Palestinian state, the Obama administration will look into imposing a solution on the parties, a senior Palestinian Authority negotiator told this column. The PA negotiator, speaking by telephone from Ramallah, said the Obama administration told the Palestinians that the […]

By ASSOCIATED PRESS www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=176217 CAIRO — Egypt’s armed forces on Sunday afternoon ended large scale military maneuvers in the Sinai Peninsula, which borders Israel. The official Middle East News Agency said the weeklong maneuvers, code-named “Badr-2010,” included an exercise to cross the Suez Canal as well as a simulation of an offensive thrust deep into […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 20 May 2010 President Obama and his team repeated for the umpteenth time this week that he is committed to Israel’s security. The Palestinians have given him a golden opportunity to translate that commitment to action. This week PA head Mahmoud Abbas presented the U.S. envoy to the peace process, Senator […]

by Rachel Sylvetsky (Israelnationalnews.com) Israel Radio reported that the IDF killed two Palestinians who tried to infiltrate Israel from the Gaza strip on Friday near Kibbutz Nirim. IDF scouts discovered the attempt to enter Israel and alerted units who were sent to the area. The military spokesman’s office confirmed an exchange of fire on Friday […]

by Yehudah Yifrach, Amona (Israelnationalnews.com) Were it not for the miracle that befell us, this column would never have been written. Statistically speaking, the space it takes up on the web page is probably congruent to the space that would have been taken up to a routine factual description of the shooting attack, including the […]

25th Anniversary Review Series – Article #21 By Esther Pollard Justice4JPnews – May 18, 2010 To mark Jonathan Pollard’s 25th year in American captivity – which is also his 25th year of abandonment and betrayal by the government of Israel – J4JP will be reviewing some of the best-written, most informative, and most interesting articles, […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Over three dozen Jewish members of Congress met with U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon-evening and asked him to display more public support for Israel – and even to take a trip to the Jewish State. Among the participants were nine Senators – Joseph Lieberman, Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer, Benjamin […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Iraqi security forces have arrested a former Saudi colonel who plotted with Al-Qaeda’s number two terrorist to blow up the World Cup in South Africa next month. The 30-year-old suspect, Abdullah Azam Saleh al-Qahtani, 30, entered Iraq from Saudi Arabia in 2004 and was in charge of the terrorist network’s […]