by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva August 27, 2006 The officially-neutral UN peacekeeping force posted, on its website, information about Israel’s troop deployments in Lebanon – but nothing about Hizbullah. UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon), the neutral force that has been stationed there since 1978, is tasked with maintaining peace between Israel and Hizbullah along […]

Sarah Honig, THE JERUSALEM POST August 25, 2006 On Friday night, July 14, the conflict in Israel’s north was already a few days old. Some folks in battered Nahariya decided to leave town. Among them were the Pesachovs, who sought safety at Grandma Yehudit Itzkowitz’s home in Moshav Meron. That evening they gathered there for […]

By: Yehudit Katzover Jewish Press Wednesday, August 23, 2006 Six days after the “Three Weeks War,” our goal is to carry on, with all the more determination, the mission to bring about a great awakening among the Jewish people. At this time, the Jewish people are at the height of a harsh struggle for their […]

ZOA New York – A new Israeli poll has found that nearly two-thirds of Israelis — 64.4% — oppose the Israeli Government Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter’s proposal of negotiating the handing over of the Golan Heights to Syria in return for a peace treaty with the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Only 27.4 % of […]

By Eynav Ben Yehuda Haaretz August 26, 2006 In the midst of the war in Lebanon, as Bank Hapoalim staffers and executives toured the North, a few soldiers approached deputy chair Danny Dankner. The soldiers told Dankner their concerns about their imminent entry into enemy territory without appropriate equipment. The soldiers talked about a shortage […]

By P. David Hornik FrontPageMagazine.com | August 24, 2006 “We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies. We want them to […]

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM Thursday, August 24, 2006 Dear Friends, The mood in Israel is very despondent and apprehensive. No doubt about it, we lost the Lebanon war against Hezbullah. We did not even succeed in obtaining the return of the two reserve soldiers kidnapped by Hezbullah, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva August 24, 2006 The issue of administrative detention – the imprisonment or restriction of citizens’ movement without trial – is the subject of a new campaign by Knesset and extra-parliamentary efforts. Administrative detention, a legal remnant from the British Mandate period, allows security forces to hold citizens in prison without […]

By: Steven Plaut Jewish Press Wednesday, August 23, 2006 It was a war Israel was more afraid of winning than of losing. It was a war whose battlefield strategy was based on posturing – on acting as if Israel were conducting an actual all-out war. It was a war in which Israel attempted to defeat […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva August 23, 2006 An IDF soldier was killed in the Har Dov region of southern Lebanon on Tuesday night when his unit accidentally activated two landmines placed there by the IDF years ago against Hizbullah. The incident was released for publication Wednesday afternoon. Two Givati Brigade soldiers were seriously wounded […]