Palestinian negotiators claim terror group also gave Johnston’s captors assault rifles Posted: July 13, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Alan Johnston after his release (BBC) JAFFA, Israel – In exchange for the release of BBC reporter Alan Johnston, the Hamas terror group paid kidnappers $4 million and provided them with […]

Shmuel Rosner Ha’Aretz There are increasing signs, slowly but unmistakably, that the Jordanian option for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is once more assuming a central position on the agenda. Not necessarily along its original “Jordan is Palestine” formula, but in a more sophisticated composition: Jordanian assistance to the Palestinians, the possibility of a confederation. This […]

by Laura Ben-David Arutz Sheva To rectify the past and fortify the future. Last week, I embarked on a journey that united me not only with hundreds of neighbors and friends, but with the Jewish people of countless generations, filled with hope and a deep yearning for Zion. A journey that recognizes that our quest […]

by Laura Ben-David (IsraelNN.com) Last week, I embarked on a journey that united me not only with hundreds of neighbors and friends, but with the Jewish people of countless generations, filled with hope and a deep yearning for Zion. A journey that recognizes that our quest to reestablish our homeland did not end with the […]

Steven Plaut Jewish Press For the past 30 years the Israeli political establishment has been prisoner to the “Then Maybe They Will” doctrine. Every major policy decision made by the government has reflected the power of wishful thinking and faith in the make-pretend. If Israel gives Sinai back to the Egyptians, THEN MAYBE THEY WILL […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 26, 2007 Jafar Kiani was an anonymous Iranian prisoner until earlier in the month he became the first Iranian to be stoned to death since 2002. Iran’s decision to revert to domestic barbarism is just one aspect of the regime’s strategy for terrorizing its people sufficiently to quell all […]

July 26, 2007 JINSA Report #690 We didn’t say anything about Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s overtures to Abu Mazen in the wake of Hamas’s swift and brutal putsch in Gaza. We did worry about President Bush offering further incentives to Abu Mazen who, we believe, has never been willing and/or able to use them […]

by Hillel Fendel and Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) The day before the 2nd anniversary of the beginning of the forced expulsion from Gush Katif, which falls on Friday, a bid to rebuild Nisanit, in northern Gaza, is attempted. In 96-degree (Farhrenheit; 36 degrees Centigrade) heat on Thursday afternoon, hundreds of former Gush Katif residents and current-day […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 14, 2006 From all sides of the political spectrum calls are being raised for the establishment of an official commission of inquiry to investigate the Olmert government’s incompetent management of the war in Lebanon. These calls are misguided. We do not need a commission to know what happened or […]

By Aaron Klein WND © 2007 Aaron Klein JERUSALEM – Much has been said here and abroad about controversial statements made in recent weeks by a yarmulke-wearing, prominent international leftist Jewish leader and senior activist of Israel’s “peace camp” who called on Israel to cease being a Jewish state and instead model itself after Europe. […]