Elran, Meir INSS Insight No. 87, January 7, 2009 www.inss.org.il:80/research.php?cat=256&incat=&read=2516 Already by the second week of Operation Cast Lead, a number of initial insights about Israel’s civilian front have emerged. First, the statistics: In the first six days of the operation, 182 improvised Qassam rockets and 65 standard Grad katyusha rockets were launched against Israel […]

Demonized Israeli Settlers Their fate is ours too. By Barbara Lerner, NRO Israeli settlers have a unique status in the world — a special infamy. It’s not just that governments everywhere condemn them; it’s that mainstream media throughout the world join in. That’s reality today, not just in Muslim lands and Islamist-embracing European Union states, […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Hamas fired mortar shells from a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school in Jabalya before the IDF retaliated with aerial bombing that killed Hamas terrorists as well as children, according to an initial IDF investigation. “Amongst the dead at the Jabalya school were Hamas terror operatives and a […]

Jan. 5, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Since the IDF commenced its ground operations in Gaza on Saturday night, I have been hungrily eyeing my hat. On Friday I argued that the Olmert-Livni-Barak government is following the same defeatist strategy in Gaza today that the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government followed in Lebanon two and a […]

Grim picture of Gazans’ lives painted by reports emerging from Strip, claiming gunmen hiding in civilian homes, using residents as human shields, and hijacking trucks of humanitarian aid Roee Nahmias Published: 01.06.09, 22:32 / Israel News A government or a gang? As the Israeli operation in Gaza wears on it appears Hamas has relinquished any […]

Friendly fire in northern Gaza claims lives of three soldiers, leaves one critically injured, three in serious condition; 24 others sustain minor injures Hanan Greenberg Published: 01.06.09, 03:22 / Israel News Cleared for publication: Three IDF soldiers were killed and 24 others were injured, one critically and three seriously on Monday evening, in a friendly […]

Second, a quick Yashar Lachayal update. All the bases down South and the area around them are considered a closed military zone. We meet the soldiers in Sderot and elsewhere to deliver such items as underwear, “gatkes” (long thermal underwear), gloves, baby wipes and whatever they ask for. Tomorrow morning we are going down south […]

Caroline Glick is no stranger to the Corner crowd. She’s senior contributing editor of the Jerusalem Post and the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy. She’s also author of Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad. I asked Caroline a few questions this morning about the current Mideast violence. […]

Staff-Sergeant Dvir Emanuelof, killed in Gaza incursion, laid to rest as hundreds of friends, family members accompany casket. ‘He knew he was fighting for a great cause,’ says childhood friend Aviad Glickman Published: 01.05.09, 01:06 / Israel News Golani Staff-Sergeant Dvir Emanuelof (22), the first fatality of Operation Cast Lead’s ground incursion, was laid to […]

By Steven Plaut The jets bombed the daylights out of them. The ground forces invaded. They at long last suppressed the terrorists in a military campaign. These were the murdering terrorists who had conducted a long campaign of suicide bombing and planting bombs. Their total defeat put an end to any notion that the terrorists […]