By: Dvora Waysman Two of my four children live in places defined as “settlements” and are therefore characterized by most of the secular press as “obstacles to peace.” But if the journalists who use such terminology ever spent time there, among those idealistic and brave Jews, they might have to rethink their definition. My daughter […]

By Nir Hasson and Chaim Levinson, Haaretz Correspondents, and Reuters Last www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1106506.html Interior Minister Eli Yishai said on Monday that Israel must go ahead with plans to expand a settlement enclave near Jerusalem despite U.S. objections. While touring the E-1 corridor, Yishai called for continued construction in the contentious corridor between the Ma’aleh Adumim settlement […]

John Podhoretz From issue: July/August 2009 Barack Obama began the first week of June with a series of interviews on the eve of his journey to Cairo to deliver his address to the “Muslim world.” In all of them, he spoke of the Israeli-Palestinian situation and the central importance of resolving it as part of […]

Tank commander killed in accident was ‘modest genius’ Matthew Wagner , THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 6, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418532543&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Visiting the Liwerant family – mourning for their son, St.-Sgt. Uriel Peretz Liwerant, 21, who was killed early Wednesday morning when the tank he commanded flipped over on the Golan Heights – one could not escape the […]

by Hillel Fendel (Israelnationalnews.com) The most recent dramatic archaeological find in Israel is that of a luxurious administrative center from the period of King Hezekiah, over 2,700 years ago. The center was discovered in Kibbutz Ramat Rachel, just south of Jerusalem Over 100 students and volunteers from Israel and abroad are taking part in the […]

By: Yael Ehrenpreis Meyer It is three days until Shavuot. All is quiet on the streets of Nitzan. The sun beats fiercely on the stark white stone caravillas; not a soul is in sight. Silence and emptiness are abruptly shattered as an immense truck appears, lumbers down a narrow street, and then comes to a […]

There Are Consequences for Choosing Aggression Published by The Jerusalem Post Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s resolute response to a State Department official’s objection to a Jewish building development in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem may actually close a 90-year-old chapter of the Arab-Israeli conflict and bring about a measure of justice. “We cannot accept […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Voices in America calling for downgrading US relations with Israel seem to multiply by the day. One of the new voices in the growing anti-Israel chorus is the Atlantic’s well-respected military affairs commentator, Robert Kaplan. This week Kaplan authored a column for the magazine’s online edition titled “Losing patience […]

by Shalom Pollack (Israelnationalnews.com) Many are familiar with the dramatic last stand of the Jewish rebels on Masada against the Roman Legions after the destruction of the Second Temple. But according to the same historian, Josephus Flavius (or Yosef ben Matityahu – his Hebrew name) who described Masada, a very similar drama took place at […]

By: Jamie Glazov Why the Jewish state is the only country with which the U.S. has worse relations since Obama took office. Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Victor Davis Hanson, a classicist and historian at Stanford University”s Hoover Institution. FP: Victor Davis Hanson, welcome to Frontpage Interview. I’d like to talk to you today about […]