By Andrew C. McCarthy The war of aggression waged by Hamas, against which Israel has commenced a robust response, must not be seen in a vacuum. Hamas is an agent of radical Islam’s revolutionary jihad. Israel, the “little Satan,” is a proxy of Western modernity. The conflict in Gaza is merely the latest round: a […]

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC) February 4, 2009 Evidence of the Use of the Civilian Population as Human Shields: Hamas operatives detained during Operation Cast Lead related that weapons were situated in schools, mosques and residential dwellings, that operatives shot from within residential neighborhoods, and that […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Voters gave Kadima 28 mandates in the next Knesset, one more than Likud, with almost all of Tuesday’s ballots counted but not including votes of diplomats and soldiers, whose votes will be counted on Wednesday and Thursday. Their ballots are equal to five mandates. Following is the current number of […]

Feb. 9, 2009 THE JERUSALEM POST As we go to the polls today, the world around us is quickly changing in new and distressing ways. The challenges the international system will present the government we elect will be harsher, more complicated and more dangerous than the ones its predecessors have faced. Bluntly stated, the world […]

Louis Rene Beres To be sure, it is time to call all things by their correct names. Just as Israel seeks to bring great beauty into the world, its sanguinary Islamist enemies thrive reciprocally upon violence and horror. Contrary to what is generally reported in the media, there is absolutely nothing basically political or purposeful […]

by Avraham Zuroff (IsraelNN.com) Tu B’Shvat, the Mishnaic New Year of the Trees, began Sunday evening, with many people observing the kabbalistic tradition of a Seder of the seven species of Israeli produce mentioned in the Bible, as well as other Israeli fruit and wine. The observance is timed to mark the passing of most […]

By Victor Sharpe February 01, 2009 http://www.americanthinker.com/victor_sharpe/ The four thousand year old association of Jewish life in Gaza is little remembered in today’s world. Of course people know of the biblical story of Samson being blinded by the now extinct Philistines and how he brought down the temple to their gods in Gaza. But very […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 6, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304705247&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Tuesday’s general elections will officially end the briefest and most nonchalant electoral season Israel has ever experienced. Regrettably, the importance of these elections is inversely proportional to their lack of intensity. These are the most fateful elections Israel has ever had. The events of the […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Jewish leaders in Samaria are launching a new initiative aimed at countering the successful media war that has been waged against them for years by Arabs and their anti-Zionist accomplices. The project, launched by the Shomron Settlers’ Committee in cooperation with the Shomron Liaison Office, will train dozens of volunteers of […]

“Remarkably, what we did not get was any assistance from the government of Israel, nor any sense of a joint effort to help get Jonathan Pollard out.” Shevat 11, 5769, 05 February 09 12:19by Farley Weiss www.israelnationalnews.com/SendMail.aspx?print=print&type=1&item=8559 (IsraelNN.com) Jonathan Pollard is right to blame Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni especially for the failure to obtain […]