by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) According to a classified intelligence assessment handed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Barack Obama and his senior advisors wish to “incrementally diminish U.S. strategic cooperation with Israel.” A report in World Tribune quoted an Israeli source familiar with the intelligence assessment who said that “Obama wants to make friends […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) The People of Israel, born more than 3,500 years ago, began celebrating their modern country’s 61st year of independence Tuesday night. Celebrations began immediately after Israel concluded Remembrance Day for thousands who gave up their lives for the nearly six million Jews living in the Jewish state today. Twelve torches […]

His Majesty King Abdullah II King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Eli E. Hertz During the king’s recent visit to the U.S. he touched on the following: • Israel will face war within 18 months if it does not come to terms with the Arab demands • The establishment of a new Palestinian state […]

by IsraelNN staff (IsraelNN.com) Michael Levin, born and raised in Pennsylvania in the United States, came to Israel alone as a young man in order to realize his lifelong dream of serving in the Israeli army. He joined an elite paratrooper unit and fought in some of the IDF’s toughest battles. On August 1, 2006, […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST It is a strange situation when Egypt and Jordan feel it necessary to defend Israel against American criticism. But this is the situation in which we find ourselves today. Last Friday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee that Arab support for Israel’s […]

Talk about one picture being worth a THOUSAND words. Is the world just plain stupid? An interesting questionnaire for Palestinian Advocates By Yashiko Sagamori If you are so sure that ” Palestine ” , the country, goes back through most of recorded history,” I expect you to be able to answer a few basic questions […]

by Yehudah Lev Kay (IsraelNN.com) Members of the U.S. Congress are worried by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s backpedaling on the issue of aid to a future Palestinian Authority (PA) government that would include Hamas. In her initial and widely publicized testimony, the Secretary of State told the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee last […]

by Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com April 1, 2009 http://www.danielpipes.org/6257/arabs-israelis-and-underdogs “Who, a century back, would have imagined Jews making the better soldiers and Arabs the better publicists?” I asked back in 2005. A foremost example of the Arabs’ p.r. prowess lies in their ability to transform the map of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the early decades, maps […]

By Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com | 4/24/2009 Does terrorism work, meaning, does it achieve its perpetrators’ objectives? With terror attacks having become a routine and nearly daily occurrence, especially in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, the conventional wisdom holds that terrorism works very well. For example, the late Ehud Sprinzak of the Hebrew University ascribed the prevalence […]

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 22, 2009, 10:49 PM (GMT+02:00) DEBKAfile quotes senior Israeli military circles as staggered by the discovery that US president Barack Obama had approved a large Turkish arms sale to the Lebanese army, including the services of Turkish military instructors. This was taken as further proof that the US president is deaf […]