Jan. 5, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Since the IDF commenced its ground operations in Gaza on Saturday night, I have been hungrily eyeing my hat. On Friday I argued that the Olmert-Livni-Barak government is following the same defeatist strategy in Gaza today that the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government followed in Lebanon two and a […]

Grim picture of Gazans’ lives painted by reports emerging from Strip, claiming gunmen hiding in civilian homes, using residents as human shields, and hijacking trucks of humanitarian aid Roee Nahmias Published: 01.06.09, 22:32 / Israel News A government or a gang? As the Israeli operation in Gaza wears on it appears Hamas has relinquished any […]

Friendly fire in northern Gaza claims lives of three soldiers, leaves one critically injured, three in serious condition; 24 others sustain minor injures Hanan Greenberg Published: 01.06.09, 03:22 / Israel News Cleared for publication: Three IDF soldiers were killed and 24 others were injured, one critically and three seriously on Monday evening, in a friendly […]

Second, a quick Yashar Lachayal update. All the bases down South and the area around them are considered a closed military zone. We meet the soldiers in Sderot and elsewhere to deliver such items as underwear, “gatkes” (long thermal underwear), gloves, baby wipes and whatever they ask for. Tomorrow morning we are going down south […]

Caroline Glick is no stranger to the Corner crowd. She’s senior contributing editor of the Jerusalem Post and the senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy. She’s also author of Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad. I asked Caroline a few questions this morning about the current Mideast violence. […]

Staff-Sergeant Dvir Emanuelof, killed in Gaza incursion, laid to rest as hundreds of friends, family members accompany casket. ‘He knew he was fighting for a great cause,’ says childhood friend Aviad Glickman Published: 01.05.09, 01:06 / Israel News Golani Staff-Sergeant Dvir Emanuelof (22), the first fatality of Operation Cast Lead’s ground incursion, was laid to […]

By Steven Plaut The jets bombed the daylights out of them. The ground forces invaded. They at long last suppressed the terrorists in a military campaign. These were the murdering terrorists who had conducted a long campaign of suicide bombing and planting bombs. Their total defeat put an end to any notion that the terrorists […]

By Louis René Beres For a Palestinian state to be born, only a gravedigger could wield the forceps. Yet in one form or another, a new state of “Palestine” will likely be carved out of the still-living body of Israel. Supported by both outgoing President Bush and President-elect Obama, this 23rd Arab state would quickly […]

Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 1 January 2009 The Palestinian rockets slamming into Ashdod and Beersheba were not inevitable. They are the direct result of a long history of bad left wing policy recommendations that were unfortunately implemented by a series of Israeli governments. Before Yasser Arafat was welcomed into Gaza and the West Bank by […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Ground troops moved into Gaza Saturday night for the first time since last February and returned to the sites of former Jewish homes in northern Gaza, an area the government abandoned three years ago, in the framework of the Disengagement Plan, with the promise that the western Negev would be […]