William Mehlman “There is no ‘there’ there,” Gertrude Stein famously remarked of her Oakland, California birthplace. The “there,” whose thereness is conjectural at best in the minds of half the Israeli populace, is Judea and Samaria. Its definition is also a matter of conjecture. When former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert contemplated the 98.1 percent of […]

Yoram Ettinger, News First Class, Oct. 17, 2008­10­18 http://www.news1.co.il/Archive/003-D-32561-00.html?tag=18-56-41 Simultaneously with the collapse of the global economy ­ and away from media attention ­ there has been an unprecedented collapse of demography in the world at-large and between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean in particular. Such a demographic development directly impacts critical policy considerations, […]

Praying to return Tovah Lazaroff , THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 17, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017557804&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull With only a month left until her wedding, Yael Levenson, 22, from Jerusalem, has a lot to pray for. So she was one of 1,000 Jews who traveled in and out of Nablus on buses from midnight to 5 a.m. on […]

Stanley Kurtz Radical Days: Obama’s Funding of Anti-American Extremists , Stanley Kurtz It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy – and a whole lot of money – to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 16, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017555421&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The Arab pogrom in Acre on Yom Kippur was yet another wake-up call. The 200 Israeli Arabs who shattered the windshields of 110 Jewish cars, and burned and looted dozens of Jewish businesses in the city on the eve of Yom Kippur while shouting […]

By Ted Belman Today, Obama, in an attempt to burnish his foreign policy credentials, held a conference on foreign policy issues. In his speech he stressed the need for “a new direction” and “multilateralism”. McCain, on the other hand, wants to continue in the same direction and to continue with the present multilateralism without rejecting […]

Following to Ynet report on gross neglect of religious artifacts from former Gaza synagogues, leading lawyer appeals to prime minister, citing treatment as ‘scandalous and illegal’ Kobi Nahshoni Published: 10.16.08, 14:51 / Israel Jewish Scene Gush Katif evictees are threatening to go to the High Court of Justice if their demands for proper treatment of […]

(IsraelNN.com) During the Hol-Hamoed [Intermediate Days of] Sukkot, thousands of people -including a wide spectrum of public figures – have taken visited the Gush Katif Museum, located on Sha’arei Tzedek Street, near Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehudah open-air market. The museum has been open from 9:00AM to 8:00PM during the holiday period. It is staffed by people […]

Oct. 16, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST The Arab pogrom in Acre on Yom Kippur was yet another wake-up call. The 200 Israeli Arabs who shattered the windshields of 110 Jewish cars, and burned and looted dozens of Jewish businesses in the city on the eve of Yom Kippur while shouting out, “Death […]

Oct. 15, 2008 Evelyn Gordon , THE JERUSALEM POST Does anyone still remember George W. Bush’s April 2004 letter to Ariel Sharon? At the time, it was touted as Israel’s main quid pro quo for uprooting 25 settlements, expelling some 10,000 Israelis from their homes and withdrawing the army from Gaza. Yet today, it is […]