Dr. Aaron Lerner Date 28 December 2008 Last week: “Right” 66 seats “Left” 45 seats Arabs 9 seats On second day of operation “Right” 57 seats “Left” 53 seats Arabs 10 seats Poll #1 Telephone poll of a representative sample of 502 adult Israelis (including Israeli Arabs) carried out by Maagar Mohot Survey Institute (headed […]

www.azm.org/soldiers_prayers.shtml# May He who blessed our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, bless the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces who keep guard over our country and cities of our Lord from the border with Lebanon to the Egyptian desert and from the Mediterranean Sea to the approach to the Arava, be they on land, air […]

by Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan Friday, Dec.26. We’ve stocked up on dried goods: rice, pasta, lentils, wheat and barley. Canned goods are stored in another closet. Candles and bottled water are ready. We’ve been through past wars and know the routine. We may or may not have need of the stored food but we are […]

The call for cease fire and the condemnation, as is predictable, has begun. Tomorrow the Arab League will convene and more condemnations will ensue followed by a probable meeting of the UN security council (depending on how long the bombings will last.) Now there is a call for not only Israel to halt the bombing […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The IAF’s attack against targets in Gaza on Saturday was the most lethal single day of bombing in the region in at least 41 years, experts said. The IAF executed over 170 sorties against 60 targets, reportedly killing over 200 and wounding hundreds of others. Most of the casualties are Hamas terrorists, […]

By: Caroline B. Glick Date: Wednesday, December 24 2008 It would seem that in recent years conservative candidates in both Israel and the U.S. have forgotten how to win an election. To win an election, a political party must identify and satisfy its political base. It must also identify and attract potential swing voters. To […]

By Kenneth Levin The core of the Arab-Israeli problem is Israel’s “territorial addiction.” So declares a December 3 Haaretz article by one Alex Sinclair. As to the solution, Sinclair does not quite echo Haaretz’s former executive editor David Landau, who urged Condoleezza Rice a year ago to “rape” Israel. Rather, he advocates a friendly but […]

JPost.com staff, yaakov katz and AP , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 24, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1229868837971&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Palestinian terrorists on Wednesday morning fired over 20 Kassam and Grad rockets from the Gaza Strip at Ashkelon and the western Negev, prompting Israel to hold up a shipment of aid scheduled to pass through to the Strip on Wednesday. […]

The extremist Peace Now organization in Israel has been compelled by a court order to publicly apologize and pay monetary damages to the residents of the Jewish community of Revava in Samaria for lying and publishing false statements that the town had been on Palestinian-owned land. Peace Now and activists Hagit Ofran and Dror Atkis […]

by Moshe Phillips More important than a new party is a clear vision. On December 8, 2008, it was announced in Israel that Professor Daniel Hershkowitz, a newcomer to party politics, will be leading a new party called HaBayit HaYehudi (“The Jewish Home”). HaBayit HaYehudi was originally an Is HaBayit HaYehudi really just old wine […]