Former IDF Intelligence officer says Gaza infighting may lead to ‘formal terror state that will attract al-Qaeda and threaten all of Israel’. MK Vilnai: The Palestinians have become pawns in someone’s game Meital Zur YNET Published: 06.13.07, 23:08 / Israel News www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3412560,00.html “The irresponsible pullout from Gaza allowed Hamas to arm itself with mass amounts […]

Gaza on verge of becoming Hamastan Khaled Abu Toameh, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 12, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181570255159&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday accused Hamas of staging a “bloody coup” to try and take full control of the Gaza Strip. His allegations came as thousands of Hamas militiamen launched a full-scale attack on Fatah figures […]

By DANIEL PIPES May 29, 2007 One of the great enigmas of the modern Middle East is why, 40 years ago next week, the Six-Day War took place. Neither Israel nor its Arab neighbors wanted or expected a fight in June 1967; the consensus view among historians holds that the unwanted combat resulted from a […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) For the first time, a visit to the ruins of a Disengagement-destroyed town is sanctioned by the government – and that’s precisely what worries some supporters. The army and police will be on hand Tuesday afternoon and evening to protect thousands of expected Land of Israel loyalists as they march to […]

By: Rabbi Eliezer Waldman Jewish Press Wednesday, June 6, 2007 A recent headline in the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported that certain military advisers are putting pressure on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to initiate talks with Syria for fear of a Syrian attack on Israel this summer. Those who advocate this policy are controlled […]

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe columnist | June 10, 2007 THE 40TH anniversary of Israel’s astonishing victory in the Six Day War has unleashed a gusher of revisionist history. On the BBC website, for example, Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen’s retrospective on the war begins by noting that “it took only six days for Israel to […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 12, 2007 Tomorrow Israel’s parliamentarians will convene to elect the next president of Israel. After Shas’s council of elders decided last week to throw the party’s support behind Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres’s candidacy, Peres’s election seems to be a foregone conclusion. That this is the case is a […]

MEMRI The following are excerpts from a report on Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV about a graduation ceremony of Kindergartens of the Islamic Association in Gaza. The report was aired on May 31, 2007. TO VIEW THIS CLIP: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1468 Host: “We will now take a short break to present the Palestinian childhood, and some scenes from the […]

by Rachel Saperstein (IsraelNN.com) The laws pertaining to the month-long mourning period for my brother, together with my still aching foot, had kept me house-bound. But a call to meet with the architects in Tel Aviv provided a much-needed excuse to extract me from my seclusion. A comfortable one-hour train ride from Ashkelon to Tel […]

The fate of the Gaza Strip KHALED ABU TOAMEH http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=MmRiZTE0MjZlNzA3Y2EyYWQ4ZTcyYzMxMTBhZWIxMGE= Nahed Nimer had just finished afternoon prayers at his home in Gaza City when he heard loud banging at the door. About twelve gunmen stormed their way in, aiming rifles at the terrified man and his family. “Come with us for ten minutes,” the intruders […]