By: Steven Plaut There are times when it becomes truly difficult to explain the obtuseness of Israelis. And, for a change, I do not mean leftist Israelis, who by and large are simply beyond cure. One of worst illustrations of non-thinking on the part of non-leftist Israelis is the loud public campaign of street protests […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) The Yesha Council’s new website, as introduced at a public conference in Jerusalem on Sunday, teaches Land of Israel supporters how to take full advantage of the internet for the cause. The Hebrew-language website, www.MyIsrael.org.il, was conceived by Karnei Shomron resident Elchanan Shwartz, and was implemented under the direction of Natali […]

By CAROLINE GLICK The gov’t must stop trying to play both sides. Forty-three years after the Jewish people liberated Jerusalem, our capital has never been under greater assault. But it has also never been more energetically defended by an indignant Jewish people – in Israel and throughout the world. Last week, Makor Rishon reported that […]

Caroline Glick In the following clip, you see David Horowitz from the Freedom Center asking a Muslim student activist at UC San Diego if she supports Hizbullah’s aim of eradicating Jewry from the face of the planet. And this smooth-talking human upholstery board – sporting a drapery and a tablecloth – said yes. So there […]

by Hana Levi Julian (Israelnationalnews.com) Using the GPS to get from Point A to Point B without double-checking the route suggested could become a life-threatening exercise for non-Arabs using it in Judea and Samaria, according to the NAVNGO company. GPS (Global Positioning System) is a satellite-based navigational network, receivers of which are installed in vehicles […]

by Hana Levi Julian (Israelnationalnews.com) Controversial U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference Rashad Hussein is back in the spotlight over an interview published Monday in the English-language edition of the Arabic international daily Asharq Al-Awsat. Commentary magazine’s political columnist Jennifer Rubin first raised the alarm over the interview, charging in an […]

by Daniel Pipes May 10, 2010 Cross-posted from National Review Online http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/05/israeli-palestinian-proximity-talks U.S.Middle East Special Envoy George Mitchell issued a statement confirming that the first round of “proximity talks” began yesterday between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. Here follow some reflections on what Mitchell calls “serious and wide-ranging” discussions and I call a […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) A member of the central council of the Fatah party, headed by Abbas, calls on the Palestinian Authority to extend its boycott of Yesha (Judea and Samaria) products to all of Israel. Speaking at a recent conference in El Bireh, next to Ramallah, Mahmoud al Aylool said an all-out boycott […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Dr. Gabi Barkai, senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University and recipient of the Jerusalem Prize for Archaeology, says Israelis must demand that Israeli antiquities law be enforced at Israel’s most important archaeological site– the Temple Mount. “It is the most important site in the world for the Jewish people,” Barkai told […]

By CAROLINE B. GLICK For 10 years Israel has been paying the price for the withdrawal from Lebanon. And yet even now, the Israeli press is still presenting the event as an act of strategic genius and political courage. A few weeks shy of the 10th anniversary of Israel’s May 24, 2000 unilateral withdrawal from […]