By: Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel A recent news item shed piercing light on the reason for the intractability of the Arab war on Israel. The well-known 1970s disco group Boney M, invited by the Palestine International Festival to give a concert in Palestinian Authority-controlled Ramallah, was pressured to drop performing one of […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) Archaeologists working in Tel Kedesh in northern Israel have uncovered an extremely rare 2,200-year-old gold coin, minted in Alexandria by King Ptolemy V. The head of the Coin Department of the Israel Antiquities Association, long-time American immigrant Dr. Donald T. Ariel, said, “This is the heaviest and most valuable ancient gold […]

Asculai, Ephraim www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=4287 In view of the possibility of renewed talks between Iran and the “Vienna Group” (the US, France, Russia, and the IAEA) one cannot but wonder whether this will be “the real thing” or another Iranian time-buying ploy. Although at first Iran delayed the opening of talks, it later recommended to the Vienna […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The synagogue of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook, luminary sage and father of modern religious Zionism, was reopened Monday in southern Tel Aviv 30 years after it closed its doors. The synagogue, Shaarei Torah, is located in the Neveh Shalom neighborhood just north of Yafo (Jaffa). The synagogue’s gabbai (manager), Roni […]

The State Department has confirmed that Feisal Abdul Rauf – who wants to be the imam of a mosque at Ground Zero – is taking a State Department funded trip to the Middle East to foster “greater understanding” about Islam and Muslim communities in the United States. “He is a distinguished Muslim cleric,” said State […]

“If you go to the Middle East looking for oil, you don’t need to stop in Israel . But if you go looking for brains, energy and integrity, it is the only stop.” Warren Buffet 2010

Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles gets the Palestinian-Israeli conflict backwards in his featured August 2, 2010 drawing. Toles portrays Israel, this time in the person of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, as the obstacle to direct Israeli-Palestinian talks and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as the proponent. Astonished Post readers called CAMERA’s Washington office to […]

By Paul Cooper Is the LA Times not paying attention or lying? The Ground Zero mosque debate continues to be a battleground of worldviews. The Left has made it clear that the problem is not Islamists, but what they deem ‘Islamaphobia’. Somehow the dangers of fearing radical Islam and Sharia law is worse than the […]

Rafael Haddad was arrested on suspicion of spying while photographing buildings on behalf of society that seeks to preserve Libyan Jewish history. By Barak Ravid Complex and secret negotiations between Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the Libyan authorities came to a dramatic conclusion Sunday when an Israeli who disappeared in March was freed from a […]

By: Victor Sharpe Islam, which has been described as an ideology wrapped in a religion, will never allow its adherents to accept a non-Muslim state in land previously conquered in the name of Allah. Can it be any clearer that the Palestinian Authority, which represents the allegedly more moderate Fatah wing, does not want to […]