Jerusalem Post By Caroline Glick A central pillar of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy paradigm was shattered at the Fatah conference in Bethlehem – but don’t expect the White House to notice. At the conference, Fatah’s supposedly feuding old guard and young guard were united in their refusal to reach an accommodation with Israel. […]

Michael D. Evans , THE JERUSALEM POST Former President Jimmy Carter has just released a new book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan that Will Work in which he advocates a straightforward solution: Israel should embrace the Quartet [Russia, the UN, the EU and the US]. The plan is backed by […]

By: Elliot Resnick, Jewish Press Staff Reporter Date: Wednesday, August 19 2009 Not too many rabbis spend their day trying to cure cancer. Fewer still own three dogs and a killer fish named Shalom on the side. But Rabbi Dr. Robert Shorr does and sees no inherent conflict or tension between his various activities. The […]

Unstable Mideast makes Judea, Samaria crucial for Israel’s security Yoram Ettinger In 1967, Israel demolished the military forces of Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Consequently, Israel developed the “Low Probability Arab Offensive” concept. The 1973 War – along with Mideast unpredictability and objective intelligence constraints – devastated that concept, threatening the Jewish State with oblivion. In […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Back in October 2006, then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had urged Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to free imprisoned terrorist Marwan Barghouti. Her obviously naïve argument was that the Tanzim leader remained very popular among Palestinians, and that he was likely the only Fatah representative who could successfully advance the […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) An IDF soldier was lightly wounded on Monday evening when Gaza terrorists fired a rocket and a mortar shell at southern Israel. The soldier was hit by shrapnel and was taken to Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon for treatment. The attack took place as IDF soldiers battled Gaza terrorists near the security […]

Elections for the unions of UNRWA workers began on March 16, 2009 and ended on March 24, 2009. The results will be announced very soon. The UNRWA teachers’ union in the Gaza Strip has close to 7,000 members, the civil service sector has about 2,000 and the general UNRWA workers number about 1,500. Elections are […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The Judge Selection Committee agreed Sunday on the nominations of three judges to the Supreme Court: Neal Hendel, Yitzchak Amit and Uzi Fogelman. Judge Nili Arad was selected as Deputy President of the Labor Court. Justice Minster Yaakov Ne’eman and Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch phoned the appointees and wished them […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) The U.S. State Department has expressed its “deep disappointment” with the decision by the Scottish government to free the only terrorist convicted in the hijacking of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Dec 21, 1988 flight ended with the bombing of the plane, resulting in the loss of […]