by Naomi Ragen Flashbacks. After days of prayer and fear among Jews and good people everywhere, the horrible reality of the Islamic terrorist rampage in Mumbai was revealed in all its obscene and mindless savagery when members of Zaka entered the Perhaps it is impossible for the average human being to understand the depth of […]

by Richard M. Ebeling, September 2003 Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (New York: Doubleday, 2003); 677 pages; $35. Siberia. The word has had a chilling connotation for people around the world for 200 years. Long before Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, the tsarist regime had used the vast area that […]

Sep. 25, 2008 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Listening to the news in Israel these days, it is hard to escape the feeling that the Israeli political discourse has become dangerously irrelevant. Take Iran for example. On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the heads of UN member states, “The dignity, integrity and rights […]

By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1042008.html WASHINGTON – U.S. President George Bush believes that Israel is offering Syria the Golan Heights without getting anything in exchange, according to sources briefed on his White House meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week. After Olmert updated Bush on Israel’s indirect talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, […]

by Yehudah Lev Kay (IsraelNN.com) Nationalist activists in Hevron have asked the public Monday to give them information regarding the government’s intention to expel the residents of Hevron’s Peace House, known in Hebrew as “Beit HaShalom.” The Movement for the Struggle Against the Expulsion of Beit HaShalom also asked for help from the soldiers themselves […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Likud primaries are to be held a week from Monday, on December 8. Among the 146 candidates are a mix of left- and right-leaning candidates. Among those running for a spot on the Knesset list are 11 of the 12 incumbent Knesset Members; Binyamin Netanyahu’s #1 slot is reserved for him […]

By Karin Kloosterman November 23, 2008 Plastics, sheep gut, silk and metal wire: the materials that doctors have used to stitch wounds together on the battlefield and in the clinic have changed over time, but none of the solutions are perfect. They take time to apply, leave scars, and a body vulnerable to infection as […]

IMRA Doctors manage to save one of legs of Sergeant Noam Nakash, who was seriously wounded by mortar shells fired at Nahal Oz military base. ‘He always informed me about mortars landing in the area but told me I had nothing to worry about,’ his mother tells Ynet Ilana Curiel YNET Published: 11.29.08, 11:18 / […]

(IsraelNN.com) Details of the tragic aftermath of the terrorist massacre in Mumbai’s Chabad House have become available. WARNING: some readers may find the descriptions disturbing. The bodies of Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, and kashrus inspector Aryeh Leibish Teitelbaum, were found in the Mumbai Chabad House library, with holy books in front of them. According […]

No, this is not correspondence from Shimon Peres to Manmohan Singh. It was actually written by Steven Plaut, an economist at the University of Haifa, as an approximation of what Peres would write to Singh if he were to encapsulate his own thinking on how Israel should deal with the Palestinians and extrapolate this to […]