By: Judy Lash Balint Wednesday, July 26, 2006 July 21 – Five Israeli soldiers were buried today. Among them was Benjy Hillman, 27, the son of one of my oldest friends. Benjy, z”l, was a commander in the elite Egoz unit, who was killed fighting Hizbullah terrorists in southern Lebanon last night. Just three weeks […]

by Hana Levi Julian Arutz Sheva July 26, 2006 Eight IDF soldiers, including three officers were killed and 24 wounded fighting terrorists in the Hizbullah stronghold of Bint Jbeil in Lebanon. Their families have been notified. The Golani Brigade soldiers were ambushed at approximately 5:00 o’clock Wednesday morning (Tuesday 10:00 pm EDT) by Hizbullah terrorists […]

Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon and Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror · Discussions about security arrangements in Lebanon at the end of the war have included the proposal to station an international force in that country. Yet the UN has a very bad name in terms of confronting strong forces in areas where it is stationed. · […]

By David Gelernter The Weekly Standard July 25, 2006 For years I have watched the Palestinians do absurdly self-destructive things, and have never understood them until now. But watching the Bush administration stoutly defend Israel this week against the background of an American Jewish population that vocally (often sneeringly) dislikes him and his administration, and […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz Arutz Sheva July 26, 2006 Many Lebanese expatriate groups have roundly condemned the Hizbullah, Iran and Syria. Some of them are also calling for Israel to press ahead in its military campaign. The Lebanese Canadian Coordinating Council (LCCC), a coalition of organizations in Canada, has released a statement laying out its vision […]

HonestReporting challenges some of the misconceptions surrounding Israel’s Gaza operation. As Israeli operations in Gaza continue to occupy the international media, Palestinian PM and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, is somewhat surprisingly given op-ed space in the Washington Post to pin the blame for the current crisis solely on Israel. In a direct appeal to Americans, […]

by Daniel Pipes Los Angeles Times July 20, 2006 A leading Israeli philosopher some years back referred to his countrymen as “an exhausted people, confused and without direction.” Before he became prime minister, Ehud Olmert publicly declared these extraordinary words: “We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Arutz Sheva July 25, 2006 The American government is rushing a shipment of precision bombs to Israel, which is carrying out a 10-day plan to weaken Hizbullah before foreign pressure forces a cease fire. The Bush Administration has given Israel approximately two weeks to continue attacks on the Hizbullah terrorist infrastructure […]

by Hana Levi Julian Arutz Sheva July 23, 2006 A new longer-range missile has joined the arsenal of Hamas terrorists who fire at southern Israeli communities in the western Negev, according to military sources. Hamas terrorists developed and fired a Grad rocket, a variant of the Katyusha, which exploded 14 miles into Israel’s Lachish region […]

There is crisis and there is opportunity. Amid the general wringing of hands over the seemingly endless and escalating Israel-Hezbollah fighting, everyone asks: Where will it end? The answer, blindingly clear, begins with understanding that this crisis represents a rare, perhaps irreproducible, opportunity. Every important party in the region and in the world, except the […]