HERBERT ZWEIBON As Russia exerts its military power at will over Georgia, there are lessons for Israel—and the West. For Israel the lesson is obvious. To expect others to save you in an existential crisis is folly. The United States makes strong statements of disapproval and sends humanitarian aid. The EU can’t muster that much […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Was the IDF brainwashed into carrying out the Disengagement from Gush Katif and northern Shomron in 2005? A complaint has been filed with the Ethics Committee of the Israel Board of Psychologists against two psychologists for “using their psychological and hypnotic skills” to facilitate the Disengagement-expulsion. The complaint was filed by […]

Oct. 6, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST In the end, the global jihad, and the West’s fickle response to radical Islam’s assault on its civilization, is about hating Jews. This truth, never wholly hidden from view, was exposed in all its ugliness in recent months with startling disclosures by former Italian president and […]

by Tom Mountain Betty Friedan couldn’t have predicted Sarah Palin. Why do liberal Jews have such a problem with Sarah Palin? One would think that the die-hard feminists in the Jewish community would trumpet the ascension of a woman to the second spot on a presidential ticket, much as they did over two decades ago […]

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent Last update – 10:43 06/10/2008 www.haaretz.com:80/hasen/spages/1026860.html Arab Israeli non-profit groups have approached Islamic charity organizations in the West Bank over the past year with requests to receive money for various projects, according to documents seized over the past year in Israel Defense Forces raids on West Bank associations identified with […]

By Aaron I. Reichel, Esq. CFP Sunday, October 5, 2008 I find it most frustrating that Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin, and most of their surrogates and ad writers, have failed to put forth many of their strongest and most persuasive arguments most of the time. Were they to only set forth their […]

Israeljustice.com Date added: 10/2/2008 www.israeljustice.com/news2.asp?key=145 JERUSALEM — The Israel Army has launched an offensive against Jewish dissidents in the West Bank. Military sources said the army’s Central Command has been ordered to dismantle unauthorized Jewish outposts and arrest organizers in the West Bank. The sources said the military has assessed that Jewish opponents of the […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The Magistrates’ Court in Kfar Saba Friday ordered the release of Avi Shikartzi, 30, from the small Jewish town of Yitzhar, located 22 miles east of Herzliya. He was arrested Thursday on suspicion that he fired in the air in the village of Asira a-Kabaliya following a terror attack on Yitzhar […]

by Prof. Steven Plaut Anti-dissident McCarthyism in Israel. The smoke from the pipe bomb had not yet cleared from the courtyard in front of the home of Prof. Zeev Sternhell in Jerusalem when the media launched their most ferocious McCarthyist broadside against the Israeli “Right” since the mid-1990s. The media leaped to the knee-jerk conclusion […]