The Wednesday Watch Analysis and Commentary from UN Watch in GenevaJuly 26, 2006 – Issue 147 tel: (41-22) 734-1472 . fax: (41-22) 734-1613 www.unwatch.org World powers gathering today in Rome agreed in principle to establish an international force in Lebanon, to be authorized by a UN mandate. While this does not preclude the force being […]

by Debbie Berman Two soldiers were seriously wounded when IDF naval commandos targeted a Hizbullah long-range missile-launching site during a heroic overnight raid on the Lebanese city of Tyre on Saturday. According to Brigadier General Noam Feig, head of naval shipyards, the Naval Commando 13’s operation in Tyre targeted senior Hizbullah operatives responsible for the […]

By Robert Spencer FrontPageMagazine.com | August 2, 2006 “The Israeli air strike on the Lebanese village of Qana early Sunday morning did more than kill 57 civilians,” says Jefferson Morley in the Washington Post. “According to a wide range of commentary in the international media, it inflamed already boiling public opinion in the Arab world […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva August 4, 2006 Twelve Israelis were killed Thursday in the war with Hizbullah: four soldiers in the ground battles, and eight civilians in the terrorists’ stepped-up Katyusha rocket attacks. The news of the three separate incidents was broken all at once at approximately 4:30 PM. The army first released for […]

By: Aaron Klein Jewish Press Wednesday, July 26, 2006 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said this week he will forge ahead with his plan to withdraw from Judea and Samaria. This comes although Israel is at war in Lebanon following repeated attacks after its withdrawal from the country’s border six years ago, and with Israel sending […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva After a 2-day lull, Hizbullah resumed its Katyusha attacks with fury, firing 150 mid-day rockets, killing one, wounding dozens. Sirens wailing all over the north; rockets hit as far south as Jenin. In a town along Israel’s northern Mediterranean coast, a man riding a bicycle was killed early this afternoon. […]

By Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post Friday, July 28, 2006 What other country, when attacked in an unprovoked aggression across a recognized international frontier, is then put on a countdown clock by the world, given a limited time window in which to fight back, regardless of whether it has restored its own security? What other […]

By: Steven Plaut Jewish Press July 26, 2006 People have very short memories. Most Israelis do not recall the events that have led up to the rain of Katyushas and other missiles upon Israeli civilians these past two weeks. Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 to drive out the terrorists. It then continued to hold southern […]

by Bennett ZimmermanArutz Sheva August 1, 2006 By Bennett Zimmerman, Dr. Roberta Seid, and Dr. Michael L. Wise Arab Demographic Momentum has become part of the Israeli lexicon. In this theory, population growth in the Arab sector will overwhelm the Jewish population as ‘baby boom’ generations give birth to an even greater number of children. […]

August 1, 2006 CAMERA by Gilead Ini Since Hezbollah first attacked Israeli towns and troops on July 12, hundreds of thousands of Israeli and Lebanese civilians have fled their homes—the former to escape thousands of Hezbollah rockets targeting Israeli civilians, and the latter to avoid Israel’s counter-offensive, which is aimed at stopping Hezbollah’s rocket-fire and […]