The Chanukah story as we know it describes a wicked tyrant, Jewish resistance, and the miracle of oil that burned for eight days instead of one. Behind the tale, in the pages of history, lies a parallel story that amplifies what we know of ancient times and also raises a couple of interesting questions. When […]

(Israel, again) President-elect Obama called the status quo between Israel and the Palestinians “unsustainable” and that “Israel has a security interest in solving this.” Solving what? Certainly Israel has a security interest in stopping the barrage of increasingly long-range and accurate rockets and missiles from Gaza and the continuing attempts by West Bank Palestinians to […]

Call Pres Bush: 202-456-1111 & Tell Him: Free Jonathan Pollard Now! Please make a one-minute call to the White House every day you can – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time), Monday thru Friday, until Jonathan is freed or President Bush leaves office. 202-456-1111 Please forward this email to everyone on your list, […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) A handful of North American children are the stars of a new two-minute Chanukah film that honors the 18,000 new immigrants who have come to Israel under the Nefesh B’Nefesh (NBN) since the program began in 2002.

By Louis René Beres Some military and diplomatic failures should come as no surprise. One of these is surely the so-called “Peace Process” in the Middle East. From the imperiled beginning, from the start time of “Oslo,” the entire genocidal enterprise has effectively been framed from the standpoint of Israel’s phased destabilization and, ultimately, its […]

By Karin Kloosterman Israel21c December 15, 2008 Colon cancer is the third most common cancer found in American men and women. While screening and treatment options for colon cancer have improved in recent years, the American Cancer Society estimates that the disease will take the lives of about 50,000 Americans in 2008. A new Israeli […]

Dec. 16, 2008 Michael Freund , THE JERUSALEM POST With just a month left to go before he leaves office, George W. Bush has decided to pull the trigger and drop a bomb on the Middle East. Only instead of targeting Iran’s illicit nuclear program, or Syria’s nefarious regime, the outgoing US president has inexplicably […]

Dec. 15, 2008 Tovah Lazaroff , THE JERUSALEM POST The settler population in the West Bank is growing three times as fast as the population in the rest of the country and has doubled over the past 12 years, according to an extensive demographic study published Monday by the Ariel University Center in Samaria (the […]

Dec. 15, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST People who are concerned about maintaining the rule of law in Israel have great reason for worry these days. The sine qua non of a society ruled by law is the principle of equality under the law. In a society governed by the rule of law, […]

by Shaun Meller The Likud primaries has me irate. As an American, I view the world in a certain way. I expect to have to pay the amount written on the price tag. I expect contracts to be fulfilled to the letter. I expect fairness and justice. In short, I expect consistency and regularity. I’ve […]