By Karin Kloosterman Israel21c December 15, 2008 Colon cancer is the third most common cancer found in American men and women. While screening and treatment options for colon cancer have improved in recent years, the American Cancer Society estimates that the disease will take the lives of about 50,000 Americans in 2008. A new Israeli […]

Dec. 16, 2008 Michael Freund , THE JERUSALEM POST With just a month left to go before he leaves office, George W. Bush has decided to pull the trigger and drop a bomb on the Middle East. Only instead of targeting Iran’s illicit nuclear program, or Syria’s nefarious regime, the outgoing US president has inexplicably […]

Dec. 15, 2008 Tovah Lazaroff , THE JERUSALEM POST The settler population in the West Bank is growing three times as fast as the population in the rest of the country and has doubled over the past 12 years, according to an extensive demographic study published Monday by the Ariel University Center in Samaria (the […]

Dec. 15, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST People who are concerned about maintaining the rule of law in Israel have great reason for worry these days. The sine qua non of a society ruled by law is the principle of equality under the law. In a society governed by the rule of law, […]

by Shaun Meller The Likud primaries has me irate. As an American, I view the world in a certain way. I expect to have to pay the amount written on the price tag. I expect contracts to be fulfilled to the letter. I expect fairness and justice. In short, I expect consistency and regularity. I’ve […]

Independent columnist asks “Where is the media outrage over Gaza?” Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a columnist for the UK’s Independent, regularly features on HonestReporting and its UK affiliate due to her propensity to describe Israel as a “racist” and “apartheid” state. In her latest anti-Israel screed, Alibhai-Brown rails against Israel’s closure of Gaza: It is a siege […]

By Louis René Beres Some military and diplomatic failures should come as no surprise. One of these is surely the so-called “Peace Process” in the Middle East. From the imperiled beginning, from the start time of “Oslo,” the entire genocidal enterprise has effectively been framed from the standpoint of Israel’s phased destabilization and, ultimately, its […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) An international conference like no other was held in Jerusalem Sunday. The conference, called Facing Jihad, organized by MK Aryeh Eldad, dealt with the current world wide threat posed by Islamic holy war, Jihad, and what can be done about it. Dutch MP Geert Wilders was also present, and the attendees […]

1. The British Mandate urged Arabs and Jews (November 30, 1947- May 14, 1948, before the outbreak of the war) to evacuate small mixed towns, where they constituted a minority. Arabs complied, while Jews defied. Consequently, Alan Cunningham, the British High Commissioner, stated: “Arabs are leaving the country with their families in considerable numbers, and […]

ZOA to ADL, AJC, Reform – Reconsider eviction support The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to two letters signed by 49 and 51 Members of Knesset (MKs) respectively, pleading with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Internal Security Minister, Avi Dichter, and Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz not to evict Jews from Hebron’s Beit Hashalom, […]