How the IDF Focused Exclusively on COIN and Lost the Ability to Fight Manuever War CAPTAIN JONATHAN D. ZAGDANSKI Israel has defeated larger Arab armies repeatedly since its creation in1948. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) enjoyed a reputation of invincibility among its Arab neighbors until last year. Israel got bloodied and bogged down in Lebanon […]

Foreign Minister Livni can befriend Condi Rice if she wishes, but not at Israel’s expense Uzi Landau Published: 12.13.07, 00:39 / Israel Opinion Every time I encounter a media report about the wonderful friendship between our Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, I recall a conversation between the leaders of […]

Forum to mull description of prisoner ‘with blood on hands’ JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 23, 2007 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847413482&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will hold a special session on Monday with a team of ministers to examine the option of modifying criteria for the release of prisoners “with blood on their hands.” The […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) Ten Iranian Jewish families – 40 Iranian Jews in all — began new lives Tuesday night when they came home to Israel. “How they were brought to Israel and information about who they are is classified information,” Jewish Agency spokesman Michael Jankelovitch said in an exclusive interview with Israel National […]

By:Dr. Yitzchok Levine Wednesday, May 30, 2007 (Note: All quotes are from Early American Jewish History, The Jews of Pennsylvania and the South, 1655-1790, by Jacob Rader Marcus, The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1953, Chapter 8, pages 132-165.) The Legend One of the most fascinating figures in American Jewish history is Haym Salomon (1740-1785). “Salomon, […]

ZOA: Cut ties with Nusseibeh and his Al-Quds University Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, the Dean of Al-Quds University, who is widely touted as a Palestinian “moderate,” recently stated in an interview on Al-Jazeera Television that, “The Israelis now living in the territories of the future Palestinian state should return to living within the borders of the […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 24, 2007 In a Paris courtroom last month, after seven long years, the myth of Muhammed al-Dura finally unraveled. That myth, propagated in a report by France 2 television network on September 30, 2000, falsely accused Israeli soldiers of killing a Palestinian child named Muhammad al-Dura while he […]

by Shauna Naghi (IsraelNN.com) After two years of soul-shaking storms and wanderings in Israel, 27-year-old Gush Katif expellee Shlomi Bashan has committed his thoughts and feelings on paper and released a new book: I’m Going: Farewell to a Beloved Land. On August 15th, 2005, eight thousand residents were expelled from their homes in Gush Katif, […]

By Nadav Shragai A plan to build 2,000 apartments in the East Jerusalem village of Isawiyah has hit a potential snag: Lawyers for several Jews have applied to the municipality’s planning and building subcommittee to delay the plan’s submission for public perusal. Right-wing activist Aryeh King is behind the effort, part of his fight against […]

Dear Dr., Hope you are doing well. Our first winter group arrived in Israel yesterday. We have 150 students coming to Israel on our Israel Activism Training Program this winter!! This also includes 40 students who are going to Poland first for 4 days before coming to Israel. I will send you a report on […]