By CAROLINE B. GLICK The Jerusalem Post www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=177762 This country is the US’s greatest strategic asset in the region. Indeed, given the strategic importance of the Middle East to American national security, Israel is arguably its greatest strategic asset outside the military. In other times, Hearst Newspapers White House Correspondent Helen Thomas’s demand that the […]

IDF Spokesperson and CoGAT Update: Weekly Summary of Humanitarian Aid Transferred into the Gaza Strip Last week, between May 30th and June 5th, a total of 484 truckloads, consisting of 12,413 tons of humanitarian aid were transferred into the Gaza Strip from Israel via the various crossings. Additionally, 373 medical patients and accompanying individuals from […]

By: Morton A. Klein Recent polls show that Americans, American Jews and Israelis disapprove of President Obama’s policies toward Israel. They oppose his administration’s condemning Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem; his UN speech supporting linkage of U.S. support for Israel’s security to Israeli concession to the Palestinians; his comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) The town of Homesh was the site of a bar mitzvah celebration this week, the first such celebration in the village for several years. Homesh was demolished in the 2005 “Disengagement” and its residents forced to leave. The bar mitzvah celebrant was Eitan David Ilya from the town of Beit El. […]

By: Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Date: Wednesday, June 02 2010 No sooner had Israeli forces boarded the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara than he mainstream media and the blogosphere lit up with the usual venomous condemnations of Israel. As usual, most of the condemnation could be found on liberal and left-wing websites and blogs while defense of […]

Tom Gross * Even though Rachel Thaler (murdered by a Palestinian suicide bomber while eating pizza with friends at an Israeli shopping mall, at age 16) was a British citizen, born in London, where her grandparents still live, her death has never been mentioned in a British newspaper * In the two years following her […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) A National Security Agency (Shin Bet) report released Sunday shows an increase in the frequency of terrorist attacks in the month of May, when 63 took place, compared with from 56 in April. The biggest jumps in terrorist activity were noted in Gaza and Jerusalem. Gaza terrorists perpetrated 32 attacks in […]

Caroline Glick The ferocity and speed of the current international assault on Israel has left the government in a daze. Statements from our leadership are marked by confusion. This reaction is understandable. Everywhere Israel turns it is met with hostility. Turkey — which just a decade ago was Israel’s most important regional ally – has […]

Vehicle stranded in east Jerusalem neighborhood due to car trouble pelted with stones, Molotov cocktails. Passengers rescued by Border Guard officers unharmed Shmulik Grossman Some 40 residents of the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan stoned an Israeli vehicle that was stranded in the area due to car trouble. The incident occurred around 7 pm Wednesday, […]

Fearing that the Jewish community now perceives him as hopelessly unsympathetic to Israel, President Obama has launched a Jewish charm offensive. Last week alone 15 Rabbis and 37 Jewish members of Congress were invited to the White House. The Rabbis met presidential advisers while the Congressmen and Senators, all Democrats, got the real deal, a […]