Regarding the BBC interview with Edward Zwick about his film DEFIANCE, on Tuesday, January 6, 2009: Producing a movie about the Jewish partisans does not give him license to dishonor their memory by equating them in any way with the Palestinians. By doing so he aided and abetted the BBC’s never ending media campaign against […]

Release Date: 18 January 2009 (Jerusalem) – Jerusalem based watchdog, NGO Monitor today called on all human rights groups to demand the release of captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit and to press for International Red Cross access, in accordance with international humanitarian law. Schalit was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists from sovereign Israeli territory in June […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) An IDF soldier in Gaza speaks of enemy attempts to kidnap soldiers into tunnels, the special boost that letters from back home give him and his friends, the incredible motivation displayed by his comrades-in-arms, and more. Aryeh, a former hesder yeshiva student and a soldier in reserves who spent a week […]

By Ronald Radosh Pajamas Media As Israel goes deeper into Gaza, and intensifies its bombardment of Hamas in Gaza City, a chorus is beginning to be heard: Israel is now committing war crimes; the conditions of the people there constitute a humanitarian crisis; the only solution is negotiations with Hamas for a cease-fire that will […]

Why are military ops in Gaza, Kosovo judged by wildly disparate criteria? Martin Sherman Published: 01.14.09, 23:46 / Israel Opinion “There is always a cost to defeat an evil. It never comes free, unfortunately. But the cost of failure to defeat a great evil is far higher.” Jamie Shea, NATO spokesman, BBC News, May 31, […]

Army says it fired at Gaza doctor’s home, killing three daughters, after troops were targeted by sniper fire; meanwhile, IDF says that shell hit fuel tank near UNWRA compound Thursday, but facility itself was not targeted Hanan Greenberg Published: 01.17.09, 18:54 / Israel News Not so innocent? The daughters of a Gaza doctor were killed […]

By Jacob Laksin FrontPageMagazine.com Besieged by Israeli forces and rebuked by its Arab League allies, Hamas has seen the worst of the recent fighting in Gaza. But however bleak their present fortunes, the terrorists still have a faithful friend in ex-president Jimmy Carter. It has become an odious annual routine. On no obvious invitation, the […]

by Israel National News (IsraelNN.com) Operation “Cast Lead” seems about to turn into a classic Israeli military experience: Victory on the battlefield, defeat in the war. Israel’s dailies sport headlines claiming “Ceasefire is Imminent” and “We’ve Won for Sure!” How ironic. This juvenile, premature celebration illustrates how little Israel’s elites—journalists, commentators and especially its political […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 15 January 2009 It would appear that many IDF soldiers operating in Gaza today owe their lives to IDF lawyers. In previous operations an Israeli policy that frequently gave priority to human shields over the lives of IDF soldiers was exploited by terrorists with deadly results. This time it seems different, […]

by Tamar Yonah WARNING! Disturbing video. HAMAS KILL FATAH IN GAZA This is hard to watch. Maybe if some people who are still convinced that Israel is unjustified in going into Gaza, this will show them why. Now, not to make a mistake, the Fatah is a terror organization as well, and both are our […]