by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) State Comptroller and Ombudsman, retired judge Micha Lindenstrauss, devoted a chapter in his annual report to the state of disrepair of the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives (called Har HaZeitim in Hebrew). The report was released Tuesday afternoon. The Lindenstrauss report said that successive Israeli governments were aware of […]

by INN Staff (Israelnationalnews.com) “We will evict the Arabs from the Synagogue on our own.” The Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva announced Tuesday that it intends to evict the Arab squatters, who took over the Yemenite Synagogue in the Shiloach neighborhood (Silwan) just outside the Old City of Jerusalem walls several decades ago, by itself if no […]

by Emanuel A. Winston Middle East analyst & commentator April 17, 2002 Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was implored not to go to the Madrid Conference of 1991. As it turned out, this was the beginning of the Oslo Process. Everyone knew – both enemies and friends – that it was one big trap. Although Baker’s […]

Caroline Glick Moral blindness in the face of evil is depravity. But in the upside-down moral universe of our world today, moral blindness has become a badge of honor. If you refuse to call evil by its name, then you are a moderate. And if you stand up to evil, you are yourself an extremist. […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) The American-mediated “indirect talks” between the Palestinian Authority and Israel began Sunday with a loud silence as both sides wait for U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell to return to the region, probably in the next 10 days. He is to leave Israel Sunday night. The Palestinian Authority officially approved […]

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online May 5, 2010 http://www.danielpipes.org/8336/why-blow-up-times-square When news comes of Muslims engaging in violence, the triad of politicians, law enforcement, and media invariably presumes that the perpetrator suffers from some mental or emotional incapacity. (For a quick listing of examples, see my collection at “Sudden Jihad or ‘Inordinate Stress’ at Ft. […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The Minister of Construction and Housing, Ariel Attias (Shas), admitted Wednesday on the Knesset podium that there are thousands of housing units awaiting sale in Jerusalem, but that none have been been marketed since December. He was responding to a motion filed by MK Uri Ariel (National Union), who claimed that […]

Many Jews and Arabs living in this part of the world really miss the good old days before the Middle East peace process began — before Yasser Arafat and the PLO were brought to the West Bank and Gaza Strip after the signing of the Oslo Accords. It is time to cry out loudly that […]

INSS Insight No. 178, April 28, 2010 Schachter, Jonathan, Guzansky, Yoel, and Schweitzer, Yoram www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=3977 During a recent trip to Prague, where he signed a new arms control treaty with Russia, President Barack Obama declared that nuclear terrorism is “the most immediate and extreme threat to global security.” Though the unique destructive power of nuclear […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Three men sprayed tear gas on an elderly Jew outside a French synagogue Sunday, the second violent attack on Jews in the country in three days. The attackers of the elderly man left behind an anti-Semitic slogan, according to the London Telegraph. The attackers, still at-large, launched the attack as […]