by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) There are now more than 600,000 Jews living in Yesha (Judea and Samaria) and various neighborhoods of Jerusalem, including eastern Jerusalem, and sections in the north and south of the capital that were restored to the Jewish State in the Six-Day War in 1967 – but which the United States […]

By Leo Rennert A huge crack has surfaced in Obama’s Jewish base in the person of Alan Solow, one of the president’s closest Chicago friends and long-time supporters. Solow, who was named chairman of the Conference of President of Major Jewish Organizations last December, just released a highly critical statement on behalf of the 52-member […]

21 July 2009 THE DEAD SEA SELECTED AS A FINALIST IN THE NEW 7 WONDERS OF NATURE COMPETITION The Dead Sea has been selected as one of the 28 finalists in the New 7 Wonders of Nature online competition, according to an announcement issued today by the New 7 Wonders of Nature Foundation which is […]

By Karin Kloosterman It is the most expensive seaweed known to medical history: a new heart-healing gel based on brown seaweed has just been rewarded with a record investment deal. The Israeli company BioLineRx, founded in 2003, just released the news that one if its two compounds – the BL-1040 – to repair damaged heart […]

By: Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Date: Wednesday, July 22 2009 If George F. Will comes across to some as a starchy combination of ministerial and professorial, he can blame it on his genes: The longtime columnist is, after all, the grandson of a Lutheran minister and the son of a philosophy professor. He is also […]

By: Frontpagemag.com Frontpage hosts a heated debate about Obama and Israel. In this special edition of Frontpage Symposium, we are honored to have with us: Melanie Phillips, a British columnist and author whose articles appear regularly in the Daily Mail newspaper and focus on political and social issues. Visit her site at melaniephillips.com. and Alan […]

By: Louis Rene Beres In his clearly expressed preference for a world without nuclear weapons, U.S. President Obama means well. Viscerally, at least, his idealized vision of a non-nuclear world certainly seems desirable. But the deeper intellectual and policy issue is not just the enduring and possibly irremediable security problem of strategic uncertainty and verification […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday the Persian theocracy would strike Israel’s nuclear facilities if Jerusalem attacked the Islamic state, Iran’s state television said. The report was quoted by the Reuters news agency. “If the Zionist Regime (Israel) attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities with our […]

Jul. 21, 2009 AMNON LORD , THE JERUSALEM POST I admit I was mistaken about the direction the relationship between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government would take. It seemed consensual that the two-state solution was on its way to the freezer with a tag attached: “See under ‘solutionism.’” This would have placed the […]

Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 20, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443863400&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Jordanian authorities have started revoking the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians living in Jordan to avoid a situation in which they would be “resettled” permanently in the kingdom, Jordanian and Palestinian officials revealed on Monday. The new measure has increased tensions between Jordanians and […]