by Elyakim Haetzni PART 1. ISRAEL’S PROXIMATE CAUSE: THE SHOAH, INDEPENDENCE, AND 40 YEARS OF SETTLEMENT This year in particular, there was significance to the proximity of Holocaust Remembrance Day to the celebrations of Independence Day. The prime minister of Israel — the Israel that’s been likened to the phoenix rising from the ashes of […]

November 09, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 New York — The former Labor Party leader and Defense Minister, Benyamin Ben Eliezer, who is now National Infrastructure Minister in the government of Ehud Olmert, has admitted publicly that Israel’s 2005 unilateral withdrawal from Gaza was a big mistake. Speaking in a radio […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) State Comptroller Lindenstrauss is likely to take on a major new case: The various Israeli governments’ handling of the Jonathan Pollard affair and their failure to obtain his release. The idea was that of MK Zevulun Orlev, leader of the National Religious Party and chairman of the Knesset State Audit Committtee. […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 8, 2007 The Battle of Iraq is nearly over. And the Americans have nearly won. Their enemies are on the run. Al-Qaida forces have lost or are losing their bases of operations. Its fighters are being killed and captured in ever increasing numbers. Iraq’s Sunni citizens, who, until […]

Anyone contending that there is a demographic machete at the throat of the Jewish State is either drastically mistaken or outrageously misleading! DEMOGRAPHY CONSTITUTES A STRATEGIC ASSET, NOT A LIABILITY “MABAT,” publication of Israel’s Intelligence Center, Oct. 2007 By Yoram Ettinger in conjunction with Bennett Zimmerman, Michael Wise and Roberta Seid, based on a Bennett […]

by Daniel Pipes Middle East Quarterly Spring 2005 ——————————————————————————– For references to this article, see the version posted at the Middle East Quarterly website, http://www.meforum.org/article/702.: ——————————————————————————– In the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) elections that took place in January 2005, a significant percentage of Arab Jerusalemites stayed away from the polls out of concern that voting in […]

By:Steven Plaut Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Q: Should Israel attend the upcoming Annapolis peace conference? A: No. Nothing positive can come out of it. For fifteen years Israel has been attending “talks” with the Palestinians and these have achieved absolutely nothing other than Israeli capitulation. In each round of talks Israel has given away more […]

By:Avraham Shmuel Lewin, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent Wednesday, November 7, 2007 JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas are expected to issue a joint declaration during the Annapolis conference, expected to take place the last week in November, that would pave the way for negotiations on core issues including Jerusalem and […]

Intensive talks over division of Jerusalem has prompted its Palestinian residents to make a move once considered the ultimate treason Ronny Shaked YNET Published: 11.07.07, 10:22 / Israel News www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3468672,00.html Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem calling to set up an appointment with the Interior Ministry to apply for an Israeli citizenship will discover the next […]

New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is strongly supporting Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) in their sponsorship of the ZOA-initiated Saudi Arabia Accountability Act of 2007 (S. 2243), which is designed to “strongly encourage the government of Saudi Arabia to end its support for institutions that fund, train, incite, […]