By Ted Belman As I write, the “ceasefire”, lull” or whatever has been in place for an hour, but what are its terms? Nobody is saying at least not exactly. All responsible ministers are not to be seen and they are hiding behind the back of Maj Gen (ret’d), Amos Gilad who negotiated the deal […]

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Tefen Industrial Park, Israel Question: What do America’s premier investor, Warren Buffett, and Iran’s toxic president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have in common? Answer: They’ve both made a bet about Israel’s future. Ahmadinejad declared on Monday that Israel “has reached its final phase and will soon be wiped out from the geographic scene.” […]

JINSA Report #784 Condoleezza Rice went to Lebanon to bless the new Beirut government. “Obviously in any compromise there are compromises,” she said cleverly. “This was an agreement that I think served the interests of the Lebanese people. And since it served the interests of the Lebanese people, it served the interests of the United […]

(IsraelNN.com) The Women in Green organization protested Tuesday at the Jerusalem International Convention Center at Binyanei Hauma to call for the release of Itzik and Danny Halamish, residents of the Gush Etzion community of Ma’aleh Rechavam. The two brothers are currently serving eight months in jail for allegedly shooting Arabs who infiltrated  the community in […]

By:Louis Rene Beres Thursday, June 12, 2008 Preemption Options We have seen that, among other purposes, Israel needs nuclear weapons to undertake and/or to support various forms of preemption. In making its preemption decisions, Israel must determine whether such essential defensive strikes, known jurisprudentially as expressions of anticipatory self-defense, would be cost-effective. This would depend […]

Jun. 16, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST In an interview Sunday with Britain’s Observer, US President George W. Bush made an important observation. The president argued that the common wisdom about the Middle East, which argues that Palestinian statelessness is the root of regional instability and jihadism, is incorrect. It is Iranian aggression […]

Jun. 16, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST In an interview Sunday with Britain’s Observer, US President George W. Bush made an important observation. The president argued that the common wisdom about the Middle East, which argues that Palestinian statelessness is the root of regional instability and jihadism, is incorrect. It is Iranian aggression […]

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Students at the Ramaz high school in Manhattan are mobilizing to help Holocaust survivor Dina Babbitt regain the paintings she made in Auschwitz as a teenager. At a special Yom Hashoah program last week at the Ramaz Upper School on 78th Street, 350 high-schoolers learned about Mrs. Babbitt’s struggle from the […]

New from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs What Iranian Leaders Really Say about Doing Away with Israel: A Refutation of the Campaign to Excuse Ahmadinejad’s Incitement to Genocide Joshua Teitelbaum Over the past several years, Iranian leaders – most prominently, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – have made numerous statements calling for the destruction of […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Hamas pounded Israel with two powerful Grad Katyusha rockets this afternoon, wounding one person in the city of Ashkelon. The first rocket landed around 3:30 PM in the area of the Moslem cemetery in southern Ashkelon. Three people were reported suffering from shock, and a man later arrived at Barzilai Hospital […]