Mar. 23, 2009 YORAM ETTINGER , THE JERUSALEM POST The prevention of a nuclear Iran constitutes a top US national security priority. It sheds light on a special aspect of US-Israel relationship: defiance of mutual threats. Iran pursues nuclear capabilities to advance strategic goals, which are led by the super-goal: hegemony over the Persian Gulf […]

By P. David Hornik FrontPageMagazine.com | 3/20/2009 This week Israeli officials were in Cairo for talks with Hamas, mediated by Egytpian officials, on freeing kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for a number of Hamas terrorists generally put at 450. But with the talks having broken down, it appears the outgoing Olmert government won’t be able […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Women-in-Green Cofounder Nadia Matar said Sunday that a remark that she made after a New York speech last week in which she called to eliminate Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas was a plea to the judicial system and the IDF, and not a call for people to take the law […]

Gil Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 23, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727509812&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Shas became the second party to join Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu’s government Sunday night, Army Radio reported just after midnight. According to the report, Shas chairman Eli Yishai will take the Interior Ministry portfolio as part of the agreement. The deal also guarantees the Shas […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Police sappers found and safely neutralized 30 kg. of explosives inside a car parked under the Haifa Cinemall (formerly Lev Hamifratz) Saturday night. The explosives had been packed into 14 black bags, loaded into a rucksack. The car bomb was discovered by chance; passersby alerted security officers after a small explosion […]

Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 19, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237461629053&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat hopes to reach an agreement on the relocation of Arab residents living in illegally constructed homes in east Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood, to make way for a planned archaeological park adjacent to the City of David. “This is one of the most […]

STEPHEN M. FLATOW 648 Newark Ave., PO Box 6453 Jersey City, New Jersey 07306 201-656-9220 Fax 973-556-1628 E-mail sflatow1@comcast.net March 18, 2009 For Immediate Release Attn: News Editor Terror Victim’s Father Protests Play Stephen M. Flatow, father of murdered terror victim Alisa Flatow, has asked the New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) to halt its scheduled […]

‘It is true that in war morality can be interpreted in many different ways, and there are always a few idiots who act inappropriately, but most of the troops represented Israel honorably,’ soldier says in response to claims of immoral behavior during Operation Cast Lead. Reservist: Claims ‘fictitious’. ‘Free Gaza’ movement demands international investigation Daniel […]

By: Louis René Beres This article was written and first published by Professor Louis René Beres in The Jewish Press in March 1996. It is being reprinted here because the issues have now become far more immediate and urgent. These informed speculations on a “terrible fantasy” will appear in the pages of The Jewish Press […]

by Moshe Feiglin (IsraelNN.com) Israel’s Right could hardly be in a more dismal situation. According to polls, less than 10 percent of Israelis define themselves as Left. The Right bloc clearly won the recent elections and presented Binyamin Netanyahu with the keys to form the next government. But since the elections, Netanyahu has taken the […]