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Israeli-American mother finds strength in Sderot

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

By Simona Kogan Israel21c May 27, 2007 Mechi Fendel may seem like an ordinary mother with an ordinary life. When she picks up her cell phone, she’s going to her four-year-old son’s day care to collect him, and her voice sounds typically hectic for a mother juggling daily responsibilities and seven rambunctious children. But when […]


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Public Figures Express Regret For Disengagement

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) The Yesha Council of Judea, Samaria and Gaza communities has published a collection of statements by public figures who supported or helped implement the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria and have since expressed regret. The following are some of the statements: Maj.-Gen (ret.) Yiftah Ron-Tal, IDF ground forces commander […]


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The Great Diaspora Dilemma: To Criticize Or Not To Criticize

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

April 19, 2007 “Diaspora Jews concerned for Israel’s welfare’ Have the obligation to state their views, and if Necessary, criticize Israeli policies.” Morton Klein The Great Diaspora Dilemma: To Criticize Or Not To Criticize By Morton Klein (As printed in The Jewish Tribune) PHILADELPHIA — Some argue that Diaspora Jews may debate and criticize a […]


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Israel’s deadly stupor

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | May 9, 2007 IF EHUD OLMERT had been as adroit and resolute in defending his nation from its enemies as he is in defending his grip on power, Hezbollah today would be a disgraced relic, while Olmert would be esteemed from Dan to Beersheba. Instead, the terrorist organization is […]


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Deafening Silence As Palestinians Urge Killing Jews And Americans

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

By: Morton A. Klein Tuesday, May 22, 2007 “This is Islam, that was ahead of its time with regards to human rights in the treatment of prisoners, but our people was afflicted by the cancerous lump, that is the Jews, in the heart of the Arab nation…. Be certain that America is on its way […]


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BATTERED BORDER TOWN FED UP WITH ISRAELI LEADERS

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

By Michael Widlanski SDEROT, ISRAEL-MAY 29, 2007 -In this shell-shocked Israeli town bordering the terror-torn Gaza Strip, the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is not very popular. “Nobody is doing anything,” declared 54-year-old David Hazzan, standing in the broken glass and rubble of his home struck by a Palestinian rocket. “The prime minister stays […]


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The Right Fight

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

By Jacob Laksin FrontPageMagazine.com | May 28, 2007 Few today are receptive to the idea of a “war on terror.” From a war-weary public, to a political commentariat impatient with such supposedly simple-minded slogans, the country seems determined to move beyond the notion that the fighting underway in Iraq is in any significant way connected […]


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Our World: Sitcom politicians in wartime

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 29, 2007 If life were a television show then the Labor Party primaries would be a Seinfeld episode. Like Seinfeld, yesterday’s primaries for Labor’s top-spot were about nothing but being on the air. The frontrunners, former prime minister and IDF chief of staff Ehud Barak, and former Navy commandant […]


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Surrendering its honor

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

By Yossi Melman – Haaretz – May 25, 2007 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/863016.html [With clarifications from J4JP] Any self-respecting country would have summoned the U.S. ambassador to the Foreign Ministry and demanded that he clarify his harsh statement that the fact that Jonathan Pollard, an American citizen sentenced to life for spying for Israel, has not been executed […]


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The Khazar Myth and the New Anti-Semitism

Monday, May 28th, 2007

By: Steven Plaut Wednesday, May 9, 2007 • “Israelis have no history in the Land because they are Khazars, who are not connected to the land…” – Al Hayat Al Jadida, June 16, 2003 •”…Oddly, the Zionists were mostly non-Jews whose ancestors had themselves converted to Judaism around 800 AD in a place called Khazaria, […]


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