by Daniel Pipes May 10, 2010 Cross-posted from National Review Online http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/05/israeli-palestinian-proximity-talks U.S.Middle East Special Envoy George Mitchell issued a statement confirming that the first round of “proximity talks” began yesterday between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. Here follow some reflections on what Mitchell calls “serious and wide-ranging” discussions and I call a […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) A member of the central council of the Fatah party, headed by Abbas, calls on the Palestinian Authority to extend its boycott of Yesha (Judea and Samaria) products to all of Israel. Speaking at a recent conference in El Bireh, next to Ramallah, Mahmoud al Aylool said an all-out boycott […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Dr. Gabi Barkai, senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University and recipient of the Jerusalem Prize for Archaeology, says Israelis must demand that Israeli antiquities law be enforced at Israel’s most important archaeological site– the Temple Mount. “It is the most important site in the world for the Jewish people,” Barkai told […]

By CAROLINE B. GLICK For 10 years Israel has been paying the price for the withdrawal from Lebanon. And yet even now, the Israeli press is still presenting the event as an act of strategic genius and political courage. A few weeks shy of the 10th anniversary of Israel’s May 24, 2000 unilateral withdrawal from […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) State Comptroller and Ombudsman, retired judge Micha Lindenstrauss, devoted a chapter in his annual report to the state of disrepair of the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives (called Har HaZeitim in Hebrew). The report was released Tuesday afternoon. The Lindenstrauss report said that successive Israeli governments were aware of […]

by INN Staff (Israelnationalnews.com) “We will evict the Arabs from the Synagogue on our own.” The Ateret Cohanim Yeshiva announced Tuesday that it intends to evict the Arab squatters, who took over the Yemenite Synagogue in the Shiloach neighborhood (Silwan) just outside the Old City of Jerusalem walls several decades ago, by itself if no […]

by Emanuel A. Winston Middle East analyst & commentator April 17, 2002 Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir was implored not to go to the Madrid Conference of 1991. As it turned out, this was the beginning of the Oslo Process. Everyone knew – both enemies and friends – that it was one big trap. Although Baker’s […]

Caroline Glick Moral blindness in the face of evil is depravity. But in the upside-down moral universe of our world today, moral blindness has become a badge of honor. If you refuse to call evil by its name, then you are a moderate. And if you stand up to evil, you are yourself an extremist. […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) The American-mediated “indirect talks” between the Palestinian Authority and Israel began Sunday with a loud silence as both sides wait for U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell to return to the region, probably in the next 10 days. He is to leave Israel Sunday night. The Palestinian Authority officially approved […]

by Daniel Pipes National Review Online May 5, 2010 http://www.danielpipes.org/8336/why-blow-up-times-square When news comes of Muslims engaging in violence, the triad of politicians, law enforcement, and media invariably presumes that the perpetrator suffers from some mental or emotional incapacity. (For a quick listing of examples, see my collection at “Sudden Jihad or ‘Inordinate Stress’ at Ft. […]