By Jacob Laksin FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, February 26, 2009 NEW YORK – It’s been a tough few weeks for Geert Wilders. First, an Amsterdam appeals court announced in late January that it was going to bring the blunt-speaking Dutch parliamentarian to trial for offending Muslims with his anti-Islam film, Fitna. Just a few weeks later, […]

Louis René Beres President Barack Obama has already placed the Middle East at the very top of his foreign policy agenda. There is nothing inherently wrong with this ordering; quite the contrary. The problem, however, is that the new administration’s ambitious negotiations remain structured upon altogether erroneous assumptions. In this connection, the gravest continuing misrepresentation […]

by Shalom Freedman We are in sight of Iranian nuclear weapons. Are the Iranians seeking to attain nuclear weapons? There is overwhelming evidence in support of a “yes” answer to this question. The Iranians have continued to defy Khamenaei has said the use of weapons of mass destruction is forbidden. the IAEA and enrich uranium, […]

Herbert Zweibon Israel’s current behavior in Gaza brings to mind Albert Einstein’s much quoted aphorism: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Prior to Israel’s “disengagement’ from Gaza in 2005, there was a broad public belief, fed by media, academics and politicians, that the Jewish […]

To the Right – Anti-Insensitivity Crusader Shulamit Dotan Freedom of speech in Israel just took another bullet. The Leftist First Amendment, under which anti-Israel leftists and Arabs are entitled to the protection of freedom of speech for everything they say but know one else is, made a comeback this week. The Israeli dual court system […]

Eight Souls, Eight Scrolls by Moshe Kempinski In a sea of pain and joy, hope and loss. Eight Torah scrolls for eight souls. Eight Torah scrolls were completed one year to the day after eight young Jewish boys were gunned down by a Palestinian murderer. Eight Torah scrolls were brought together with singing and dancing […]

(IsraelNN.com) On a brisk Jerusalem Tuesday, the eight boys who were murdered cold-bloodedly by a terrorist in March 2008 were remembered in a Torah Scroll dedication ceremony at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva. Family members of the boys completed the final letters of the scrolls and a large crowd joined in the memorial celebration. Final letters on […]

A companion commentary on the previous Gaza article by a forcibly removed Israeli Gaza Resident, By Anita Tucker February 22, 2009 The present situation, as it has developed, absolutely justifies reconstructing the Gush Katif towns in southern and northern Gaza. I still live in a temporary caravilla site with no new town yet in sight. […]

By Yuri Leving Dalhousie News | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 [The following article is from Dal News, a campus paper for Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.) Monday, 10 a.m. A loud siren sounds on campus. You have 15 seconds to find a safe place. It takes 60 seconds to run from the Henry […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Even if Likud leader and Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu succeeds in convincing Kadima to join a unity government with him, he will still have to face opposition from within his own party. Danny Danon: Categorically Against The Likud’s Danny Danon, about to enter the Knesset this Tuesday together with 30 other […]