By Charles Krauthammer Why did President Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in Israel’s Interior Ministry of a housing expansion in a Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem. The timing could not have been worse: Vice President Biden was visiting, […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Hamas terrorists in Gaza continued their rocket onslaught against Israel over the Sabbath, firing four more Kassams at two different locations. No one was hurt – as opposed to on Thursday, when a foreign worker from Thailand, Mani Singmonfon, was killed in a Kassam rocket attack. The Moslem terrorists have fired […]

Eli E. Hertz March 18, 2010 Jerusalem, wrote historian Martin Gilbert, is not a ‘mere’ city. “It holds the central spiritual and physical place in the history of the Jews as a people.” For more than 3,000 years, the Jewish people have looked to Jerusalem as their spiritual, political, and historical capital, even when they […]

By: Editorial Board We thought the lesson of the Obama administration’s unfortunate early attempts to impose a total settlement construction freeze on Israel was that there were certain red lines Israel simply could not cross and that to insist it do so only forces Israelis to dig in, encourages Palestinian recalcitrance and serves to put […]

David Wilder Dear Rahm and David, I’m writing this as I sit and watch, via live internet, the ceremony marking the rededication of the Hurva synagogue in Jerusalem, in the area you would classify “east Jerusalem”, disputed territory, or perhaps, ‘occupied territory’ over the ‘green line’ adjacent to ‘Temple Mount.’ Before asking a few questions, […]

by Malkah Fleisher (Israelnationalnews.com) An Israeli company will use Israeli technology and equipment to build the largest wind farm in the country. Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company (EAPC) will construct a wind farm to generate 50 megawatts of electricity in the Eilat Mountains. Construction is expected to take 2 to 3 years. In an interview with […]

Jerusalem Post ISI LEIBLER Recent hostile outbursts by the US gov’t must be viewed in the context that the US-Israel relationship has been on a downward spiral since Obama. The bureaucratic fashla [blunder] of our dysfunctional government to forestall the announcement of a new housing project in Jerusalem during the visit of US Vice President […]

Eli E. Hertz Palestinians have nurtured a myth that historically there were two Jerusalems – an Arab ‘East Jerusalem’ and a Jewish ‘West Jerusalem.’ Jerusalem was never an Arab city; Jews have held a majority in Jerusalem since 1870, and ‘east-west’ is a geographic, not political designation. It is no different than claiming the Eastern […]

Another point of distribution, Moriah Books (near the Kotel) has been added to the list of places where the Freedom for Jonathan Pollard Hagadah can be obtained. It is now available (for a donation of NIS10) at the following locations: 1) The Bookstand at Tachana Merkazit (inside the bus station, near the entrance) 2) Pomerantz […]

by Israel National Radio (Israelnationalnews.com) Yoram Etinger, expert on American and Middle Eastern affairs, spoke with INR’s Shimshon Nadel at this year’s Jerusalem Conference on the proposed two-state solution that would divide the western Land of Israel between a Jewish and an Arab state. Etinger said, “The current public debate is detached completely from reality. […]