by Yehudah Lev Kay (IsraelNN.com) National Union MK Dr. Michael Ben-Ari spoke out Wednesday during a Knesset session on Operation Cast Lead and said that the pre-military academy which was responsible for rumors that IDF soldiers purposely targeted civilians should be closed. He added that from personal experience, he knows that the IDF is moral […]

Google “Congo killings” and the search engine will find you 3.56 million references. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is 2.3 million square kilometers, and is home to 62.6 million people. Enter “Gaza killings” and Google will locate 8.56 million references. The Gaza Strip is 360 square kilometers, and home to 1.5 million people. That […]

Washington, D.C. (March 31, 2009) The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) expressed outrage at news reports that the United States will seek to join the United Nations Human Rights Council. RJC Executive Director Matthew Brooks issued the following statement: We are outraged to learn that President Barack Obama has decided to change the Bush administration’s policy […]

There is Nothing New Under the Sun March 31, 2009 | Eli E. Hertz In 1947 the British put the future of western Palestine into the hands of the United Nations, the successor organization to the League of Nations which had established the Mandate for Palestine. A UN Commission recommended partitioning what was left of […]

Jacob Shrybman recounts unfriendly welcome at US university where he presented Sderot’s grim reality Jacob Shrybman Recently I shared the human side of the conflict in southern Israel and told my personal stories from Sderot in a presentation at DePaul University in Chicago sponsored by StandWithUs, Hillel, and the university’s Political Science department. As a […]

By: Editorial Board Date: Wednesday, March 25 2009 The continuing rocket attacks from Gaza are regular reminders (as were the thankfully diminished suicide and car bombings of several years ago and as was the major car bombing that was averted at a Haifa mall last Saturday night) of the kind of violent terror Israel has […]

Mar. 30, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Last week’s reports that during Operation Cast Lead Israel bombed truck convoys in Sudan transporting medium-ranged Fajr-3 missiles to Gaza from Iran couldn’t have come at a better time for outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Even as defense officials were following standard practice of neither confirming […]

by Avraham Zuroff (IsraelNN.com) Schoolchildren from a school near Shechem are making a pilgrimage walk to Jerusalem along the ancient road that their forebears took nearly 2,000 years ago. On Wednesday, 7th and 8th graders from the Lieberman Talmud Torah, located in the Jewish town of Yitzhar in the Shomron (Samaria), started their two-day trek […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) As if to signal the possible intentions of the new government, army forces under the command of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, together with Israel Police, made their way to Kokhav HaShachar in eastern Binyamin late Thursday morning, and destroyed four buildings in the start-up outpost neighborhood of Meoz Esther. They then […]

by Maayana Miskin (IsraelNN.com) Six months ago, the Israeli government under Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinian Authority more than any other government in Israel’s history had been willing to give. So said Olmert himself on Thursday, in a speech given at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. “At one point, I put everything on […]