So many things have happened since my return from the States, that aside from all of the wonderful memories from visiting my family, it almost feels as though I never left home. The morning after our arrival (following a good nights sleep), Chana and I ventured out to visit friends. In between visits we enjoyed […]

An op-ed in yesterday’s Ha’aretz – appearing on the English internet site – states that armed Jewish civilians living in Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) are legitimate targets for terrorist attacks. The article, entitled, “Palestinians Must Take the Moral Ground,” and written by prominent Arab-American Emadeddin J. Fraitekh, states that deliberate Palestinian targeting of Israeli […]

Everywhere on Earch, most Palestinians celebrated Al Qaeda’s September 11th attacks on the United States. Since that day in 2001, the powerful friendship between various Plestinian terror groups and Al Qaeda has grown far beyond their common visceral hatred of this country and their commone commitment to do us harm. Today there are also shadowy […]

(IsraelNN.com) Two Patriot missile batteries arrived in the Port of Haifa today from the United States. The US military personnel accompanying the shipment will deploy them in the coming days and they will take part in a major joint Israel-USA military exercise in the coming weeks that will test missile defense and other weapons systems.

The IDF has decided that former Lechi fighter Ezra Yachin will no longer be allowed to lecture to soldiers as part of the army’s educational seminars. Meretz MK Naomi Chazan complained that Yachin tells his audiences that Lechi soldiers did not carry out a massacre in Dir Yassin in 1948. Yachin himself, who took part […]

A North Korean-crewed ship carrying 12 disassembled Scud missiles bound for Yemen has been boarded and seized by Spanish and U.S. military forces in the Arabian Sea, Pentagon and administration officials said Tuesday. U.S. intelligence satellites and Navy ships had been tracking the unflagged ship, the Sosan, since it left North Korea during the middle […]

JERUSALEM, Dec. 9 (JTA) — Those inclined to look on the bright side might say that Israeli-Palestinian cooperation is alive and kicking: Israelis and Palestinians joined ranks to make big money, until one of them woke up with a bad conscience. The joint venture in question began in February 1997, when Palestinian Authority President Yasser […]

American intelligence agencies are arduously investigating the intended destination of the North Korean ship that was found two days ago to be smuggling at least 12 Scud missiles. American sources say the ship was headed for Yemen, though it is not yet clear who purchased the missiles.

In 1978, Israel tracked both crucial strategic assets and vital principles for what (predictably) turned out to be worthless pieces of paper. Yet unlike the 1993 Oslo agreements, the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty is still almost universally deemed a success. This became obvious when conservative critics, indignant at the Nobel Peace Prize award to Jimmy Carter, […]

A newly released best-selling novel for teens, Rever la Palestine (Dream of Palestine), sympathetically portrays a young Palestinian who becomes a suicide bomber. The fifteen-year-old Egyptian author, Randa Ghazi, who lives with her family in Italy, writes about Palestinian teenagers who fight ‘bloodthirsty Jews, who assassinate children and old people, profane mosques, and rape Arab […]