by Tamar Sternthal Celebrated poet and fiction writer Margaret Atwood, the recipient of the Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University last May, should stick to the world of fiction. In a Sept. 17 piece in Ha’aretz entitled “Suffering of Palestinian children is something both sides can agree on,” Atwood cites a 2009 report by […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Jerusalem resident Baruch Pruss, a Jew who works as a repairman, was spared from a near-lynch on Thursday. He was viciously attacked in the Arab neighborhood of Isawiya. Police failed to protect him despite multiple calls, he accuses. Pruss arrived in Isawiya to provide service to an Arab man who had […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner This week the protocols of some government meetings that took place immediately before and during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 was released to the public. Frankly speaking, there weren’t many surprises. Yet the reports did serve as an important reminder of just how dangerous “best case assumption” analysis can be. There’s […]

By Peter Abelow Jewish Action Winter 5760/1999 Just 12 miles south of Jerusalem is the area known as Gush Etzion, where both ancient and modern history come alive. Located in the heart of what was Biblical Judea, Gush Etzion was liberated 32 years ago in the Six-Day War. Since 1967, the barren rocky hills have […]

A striking aspect of the so-called building freeze in Judea and Samaria that expired last week is that an enormous amount of construction went on throughout the last 10 months. The Arabs of Judea and Samaria were not only building without restrictions, the US, Europe and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf bankrolled much […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) September 2010 saw more missile and mortar attacks against Israel by Gaza terrorists than any other month since the period immediately following IDF Operation Cast Lead in early 2009. The motivation for the attacks appears to be Hamas’s intent to disrupt negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. The IDF Website […]

by Ruth King Just the Facts, Imam Daniel Greenfield Just the facts, Imam. A Muslim terrorist attack damaged a building, allowing Muslims to pick it up for a fraction of the price, in order to build a mosque on the spot. Some people might say that sort of thing is tacky. A little like coming […]

Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought” YnetNews, October 5, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3964458,00.html George Mitchell, President Obama’s Special Envoy, is testing Prime Minister Netanyahu: Has he learned from past errors by repeating them – which would demolish his credibility– or by avoiding them, which would resurrect his domestic and international clout? In order to enhance his own clout and […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) Dictionaries define ‘peace’ as “the absence of war or other hostilities,” but a senior IDF officer fears that further “progress” in the “peace talks” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will mean more, not less, attacks against Jews. A senior officer in the Judea and Samaria Brigade told Arutz Sheva Tuesday […]

by Eric Rozenman The Washington Post displayed a skewed sense of what’s newsworthy about Israel and Jews just before and after Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year and start of the Ten Days of Awe that close with Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. 1) The Post’s foreign desk featured a “Letter from Israel: Ultra-Orthodox […]