By Nadav Shragai Haaretz Last update – 04:18 15/02/2009 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1064157.html Half of all national-religious city residents support the right of soldiers to refuse orders to evict Jews from settlements, according to a Bar-Ilan University study. The doctoral thesis by Hanan Moses delineates a rift within the national-religious sector, which became apparent during the last election. […]

By Phyllis Chesler Initially dismayed at the phenomenon, we have by now grown used to seeing pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas demonstrators behave like Holocaust-era Nazis. These haters goose-step, Nazi-style, and shoot out their arms as they deliver the Hitlerian sieg heil salute. They also chant and scream such charming slogans as “Jews to the ovens,” “Hitler […]

1. Irrespective of the global economic meltdown, the war on Palestinian terrorism, the Iranian threat, regional instability and political uncertainty, Standard & Poor (S&P) has left Israel’s credit rating unchanged at A and the country forecast rating [has been sustained] as “stable.” The rating was approved in all three criteria: Shekel debt, foreign currency debt […]

Feb. 12, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Who won the election on Tuesday night and what do the results tell us about the composition of the next government? Israeli voters decided two things on Tuesday. First, they decided that they want the political right to lead the country. Second, leftist voters decided that […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Islamists reached new heights of audacity in a face-off with pro-Israel demonstrators in Malmö, Sweden on Sunday, firing rockets and throwing pipe bombs at the pro-Israel group in broad daylight and under police’s noses. No one was hurt. The incident was videotaped by Swedish blogger Ted Ekeroth. Between 400 and 500 […]

I received this post from a friend in NY. One of his friends is living in France and posted this to him with the request that Andy distribute it to his American friends. Andy prefaces with: “Once again, the real news in France is conveniently not being reported as it should. To give you an […]

By P. David Hornik FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, February 12, 2009 Center-Left voters showed more prudence in the Israeli elections Tuesday than Center-Right voters. Enough of the former switched from Ehud Barak’s Center-Left Labor Party and the smaller left-wing Meretz to enable Tzipi Livni’s centrist Kadima to beat—possibly—Bibi Netanyahu’s Center-Right Likud by 28 Knesset seats to […]

by Melanie Philips, Spectator.co.uk February 6, 2009 I am hearing ever more alarming accounts of the deepening attrition against British Jews in the wake of the incitement against Israel provoked by the war in Gaza. In addition to the record number of attacks upon Jewish individuals and institutions and murderous incitement displayed on the anti-Israel […]

By Editorial Board We were dismayed that President Obama granted his first interview upon taking office to Al Arabiya, an Arabic-language news network based in Dubai. Though we have questions about the message that choice inevitably sent, it was what he said that raised some red flags. Indeed, President Bush regularly submitted to interviews with […]