Lee Smith * From North Africa to Iran, Hizballah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah’s war has captured the imaginations of millions of Muslims. However, popularity of this sort in the Arab world seldom translates into anything substantive in political or strategic terms. * It is worth remembering that in Lebanon itself, a highly sectarian society, at […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva September 19, 2006 A brother and sister who long thought each other dead, have finally reunited for the first time since the 1940s, thanks to Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Holocaust Victims’ Names. The meeting was enabled thanks to the efforts of two grandchildren of the sister, Hilda nee Glazberg. […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva September 19, 2006 Though put on hold with the outbreak of fighting in Gaza and Lebanon, the Olmert administration’s plan to destroy Jewish hilltop communities is being put back on the table. Defense Minister Amir Peretz issued a directive Monday night authorizing IDF officials to destroy 90 homes and structures […]

The Gaza Strip was supposed to become a prosperous Palestinian land after Israeli troops pulled out. But a year later, life has worsened. BY RAVI NESSMAN AND IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Just a year ago, Gazans were euphoric with dreams of a renaissance that would turn their squalid, overpopulated patch […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva September 17, 2006 Despite an IDF-perceived Hamas interest not to fire Kassams at Israel, three more such rockets were launched at Israel this morning, causing injuries and some panic. One of the rockets hit a street in southern Sderot, another landed in Kibbutz Gevim, just south of Sderot, and a […]

By Nadia Matar, September 17, 2006 I received many congratulations for winning in the trial against me in which I was charged with “insulting a public servant,” Yonatan Bassi. Obviously, this is only a temporary victory, and the State Attorney’s Office still can appeal. The very fact, however, that at long last, a fair honest […]

ZOA September 15, 2006 Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 New York – In recent months, while operating against the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror infrastructures throughout Judea and Samaria, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have confiscated material from dozens of structures and offices used by Daawa charity institutes affiliated with terror organizations. These materials (video footage, […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz Arutz Sheva September 16, 2006 At least five churches in the Palestinian Authority have been targeted in a series of attacks since Friday. One Islamic terrorist group threatened to blow up all the churches in Gaza. The attacks and threats represent the response of Islamic fundamentalists in the PA to statements made […]

EVELYN GORDON, THE JERUSALEM POST September 14, 2006 MK Effi Eitam’s statement on Sunday that Israel should expel West Bank Palestinians and bar Israeli Arabs from political life, since the latter are “a fifth column, a league of traitors,” understandably raised a storm. Once, such statements belonged to the political fringe. But Eitam heads a […]

By: Dr. Yitzchok Levine Jewish Press Wednesday, July 5, 2006 The Jewish Community Of Surinam The discovery of the Western Hemisphere opened new opportunities for Jews. Here was a chance to escape the repressive conditions that most Jews lived under in Europe, and, at the same time, to considerably improve one’s economic situation. It is […]