By:Louis Rene Beres Wednesday, January 30, 2008 For Jews, free will must always be oriented toward life, to the blessing, not to the curse. Our binding charge is to strive in this obligatory direction of individual and collective self-preservation by using our intelligence and by exercising our essentially disciplined acts of will. In circumstances where […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has repudiated claims by various international organizations and pundits that Israel is under any kind of legal or moral obligation to supply goods and services to Hamas-run Gaza. The New York Times and Human Rights Watch (HRW)’s Joel Stork, to name two prominent examples, have both claimed that Israel […]

[Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: Take the time to at least read this and think about it for 60 seconds before opening your mouth and you are way ahead of the overwhelming majority of talking heads appearing on the various Israeli television channels tonight. There is one particularly bizarre phrase in the remarks of Judge […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 28, 2008 For leaders in democracies, perhaps the most difficult decision is to change course. Decision-making is hard enough. Revisiting decisions and acknowledging mistakes is simply beyond the capabilities of most leaders. Once they have chosen a strategy, they stick with it for better or for worse. For […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) The latest chapter in the ongoing tribulations of the former residents of Gush Katif is this: The bank accounts of some 500 families are liable to be cracked open by the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council, in lieu of unpaid – and unfairly demanded, the residents say – property taxes. The story […]

By:Rabbi Eliezer Waldman Wednesday, January 23, 2008 At the last weekly meeting with his cabinet partners, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reported that he had been exceedingly “embarrassed” in front of the visiting President Bush by the fact that the Israeli government had not yet fulfilled its commitment to uproot the “illegal” settler outposts. This shameful […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) Encouraged by their success in breaking through the Egyptian border with Gaza last week, a Hamas spokesman has threatened to gather 500,000 Palestinian Authority residents of the region for a similar assault on the perimeter fence dividing southern Israel from PA-controlled Gaza. Ahmad Yousef… called the fall of the barrier between […]

January 5, 2008 by Steven Stotsky Occupation 101 (2007) Written, Directed, and Produced by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish English 90 minutes “Any violence by a large population is not because the people is more violent than any other. It’s an alarm, it’s a sign, it’s a signal that something is wrong in the treatment […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 24, 2008 Tuesday Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had his first reported telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Their conversation was a sign of the rising intimacy in Egyptian-Iranian relations in the wake of November’s US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear weapons program. According to […]

The Shuafat attack and others are an indication that while there is a danger that the IDF might err on the side of Palestinian inconvenience, the Supreme Court might err on the side of risking Israeli lives. Courting security Editorial – THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 26, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1201367873262&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Border policeman Rami Zoari, 20, was […]