by Gil Ronen and Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) The High Court Sunday night rejected the Almagor terror victims association appeal against the release of another 199 Arab terrorists hours after two judges scored the government for its urgency in freeing them and the use of “slogans” that preclude a proper judicial review of the issue. […]

24 August 2008 Louis René Beres Professor of International Law Department of Political Science Purdue University West Lafayette IN 47907 USA TEL 765/494-4189 FAX 765/494-0833 E MAIL lberes@purdue.edu ———- With many urgent issues now surfacing in the campaign, few are more important than the next president’s position on “Palestine.” To date, however, neither candidate has […]

Nadav Shragai The Israeli Cabinet approved on August 17 the release of almost 200 Palestinian security prisoners as a “goodwill gesture” to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. The list includes several prisoners “with blood on their hands,” who, by definition, were involved in the murder of Israelis. According to an informal estimate by Israeli security […]

Dear Senator, My name is Leon Weinstein. I am an American. I am also Jewish. I was born in the Soviet Union, was fortunate to get out in 1974 and lived in Israel until my second immigration to the US in 1986. I have family in Israel, including my brother, parents, and my beloved nephews. […]

JINSA Report #809 It used to be said that there was “no daylight” between the United States and Israel on the subject of Iran and its nuclear ambitions. Both countries agreed on what Iran was doing, the need to find a mechanism to make it stop and the ultimate impermissibility of letting the mullahs have […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Wedding and Town Meeting The Shomron Regional Council, headed by Mayor Gershon Mesika, held a largely-symbolic town meeting on the site of the former Jewish town of Homesh on Tuesday – just before a wedding ceremony was celebrated there.

‘US rejects Barak’s Boeing 767 request’ Yaakov Lappin , THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 20, 2008 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218601145&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The US turned down a request by Defense Minister Ehud Barak to purchase the Boeing 767 aircraft, which can be used for mid-air refueling, amid fears that the sale would appear to support an Israeli strike on Iran, Channel […]

Dr. Ervin Birnbaum In its confrontation with the West, Iran is using the Nazi playbook circa 1938. The Iranians have been boycotting, stalling, and sidestepping every attempt to halt their nuclear program. So far the UN has failed to come up with a satisfactory answer to the threat, and the Six-Nation Meeting in Geneva last […]

By Karin Kloosterman   August 18, 2008 Many sufferers from chronic neck pain and migraines don’t know why the pain persists, but they do know that a gentle massage on the neck muscles can make life more bearable. That’s just what the new Israeli company Headway is planning to do. The company, which is located within the […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) “…How can the police lawyer promise that they will do the eviction before Rosh HaShanah, when the days before Rosh HaShanah are still in the month of Ramadan?! How can I believe them?” Yitzchak Herskovitz had hoped to have his Jerusalem property freed of Arab squatters by Wednesday, as the court […]