Sen. Barack Obama has jolted the Jewish community on several occasions both during the primary season and now on the campaign trail. Most recently, and perhaps most importantly, there are his views on the threat posed by Iran. Along with other Americans, many in the Jewish community was concerned by his statement that he would […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The number of Jews in Judea and Samaria grew by 20 percent from 250,000 when Ehud Olmert began his term as Prime Minister in April of 2006, to more than 300,000 in the Interior Ministry’s official census in 2008, according to Yesha Council Director Pinchas Wallerstein. Wallerstein said Sunday that the […]

Sunday, September 28, 2008 “Many in Israel, perhaps even the majority of the voters, do not doubt the legitimacy of the armed resistance in the territories themselves. The Palestinians would be wise to concentrate their struggle against the settlements, avoid harming women and children and strictly refrain from firing on Gilo, Nahal Oz or Sderot; […]

Dr. Paul Kengor It has taken me a couple of weeks but I think I’ve finally gotten handle on why Sarah Palin’s bravado Republican convention speech was such a smash among conservatives: After nearly eight years of watching President Bush curl up in the fetal position each time he was savaged by the angry left, […]

By Brigitte Gabriel FrontPageMagazine.com | 9/26/2008 For the past five years, I’ve been traveling the world in an effort to inform people about the threat of radical Islam. I have often been accused of “hate speech” and “Islamophobia.” The latest was in an article in the New York Times, where I was described not just […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (IsraelNN.com) Arabs attacked two Jewish youths with stones and foreign objects Saturday night and then stoned soldiers who were called to rescue them. One of the youths was hospitalized with a broken nose. The attackers escaped. Hevron Jewish community leaders said they recently warned IDF Hevron brigade commander Colonel Udi Ben […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 25, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017398112&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull 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 […]

The policy of US presidents, toward Israel, is a derivative of their worldview, and not of their campaign statements and position papers. A worldview shapes presidential attitude toward Israel as a strategic asset or a liability and toward Jerusalem, Judea & Samaria and the Golan Heights. A presidential worldview determines the scope of the US […]

Despite the fact that the film Obsession contains no political content and was made well before the 2008 election cycle began, CAIR, those paragons of Islamic moderation and honesty, would now have you believe that the national distribution of the DVD was an Israeli plot to elect John McCain. This is a very revealing action […]

25 Elul 5768, 25 September 08 11:04by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz (IsraelNN.com) The Palestinian Authority, run by PLO Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas, is again making efforts to popularize Muslim denial of the Jewish connection to Jerusalem, especially to the site of the two Jewish Temples. The PA claims fly in the face of the archaeological evidence, as […]