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REMEMBERING A HERO

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Ruth King In West Point Cemetery at the United States Military Academy there is only one grave for an American soldier who fell fighting for another country. His gravestone reads: “Colonel David Marcus–a Soldier for Humanity.” David Marcus, known as “Mickey,” was an officer in the U.S. Army who became a volunteer warrior in Israel’s […]


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Weekly Commentary: the case for a Knesset recall petition provision

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 27 November 2008 The Israeli Left ridicules the national camp, predicting that, should the national camp win the elections, the national camp leadership will end up embracing and implementing the Left’s program vis-à-vis Arab Israeli relations. And while they may be pushing this theme in order to discourage national camp supporters […]


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Photo Essay: Hevron’s Peace House In the Eye of the Storm

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

(IsraelNN.com) Activists in Hevron are prepared for a struggle after the government announced its intention to expel the residents of the Peace House. View of Peace House from Afar   Front of Peace House The Peace House was purchased from an Arab by Morris Abraham, a New York businessman, for 700,000 dollars. Not long afterwards, […]


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Poll: One In Three Israelis Say It’s Legitimate For Soldiers To Refuse Orders To Evict Jewish Residents From The Golan Heights

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

By 58% – 27%, Israelis oppose Golan withdrawal A poll this week has shown that one-third of the country believes it would be legitimate for soldiers to refuse orders to remove settlements from the Golan Heights. The poll, carried out by Ma’agar Mohot for a conference entitled “War at home? From Disengagement to the Golan […]


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Ha’aretz Tales on Building Permits Grow Taller

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

by Tamar Sternthal With each telling, Ha’aretz’s falsehood on building permits for east Jerusalem Arabs becomes further inflated, despite the fact that editors were provided with corrective information. Thus, on May 17, 2006 Jonathan Lis falsely claimed: “Since 1967, almost no building permits have been issued for the eastern part of the capital” (“More demolitions […]


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A Day of Mourning

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

by Naomi Ragen Flashbacks. After days of prayer and fear among Jews and good people everywhere, the horrible reality of the Islamic terrorist rampage in Mumbai was revealed in all its obscene and mindless savagery when members of Zaka entered the Perhaps it is impossible for the average human being to understand the depth of […]


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Book Review – Gulag: A History

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

by Richard M. Ebeling, September 2003 Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (New York: Doubleday, 2003); 677 pages; $35. Siberia. The word has had a chilling connotation for people around the world for 200 years. Long before Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, the tsarist regime had used the vast area that […]


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Column One: A road paved on reality

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Sep. 25, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Listening to the news in Israel these days, it is hard to escape the feeling that the Israeli political discourse has become dangerously irrelevant. Take Iran for example. On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the heads of UN member states, “The dignity, integrity and rights […]


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Bush to Olmert: Why are you giving Syria the Golan for nothing?

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1042008.html WASHINGTON – U.S. President George Bush believes that Israel is offering Syria the Golan Heights without getting anything in exchange, according to sources briefed on his White House meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week. After Olmert updated Bush on Israel’s indirect talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, […]


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Peace House Activists Preparing for Struggle

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

by Yehudah Lev Kay (IsraelNN.com) Nationalist activists in Hevron have asked the public Monday to give them information regarding the government’s intention to expel the residents of Hevron’s Peace House, known in Hebrew as “Beit HaShalom.” The Movement for the Struggle Against the Expulsion of Beit HaShalom also asked for help from the soldiers themselves […]


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