by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) A Kassam rocket slammed into an apartment in Sderot Wednesday night, precisely as a joint Chanukah celebration and social protest was underway downtown. Four people, including the two elderly residents of the apartment, were treated for shock. Heavy damage was caused to the building. The Kassam was the fourth of the […]

November 26, 2007 CAMERA by Gilead Ini The Wall Street Journal is typically considered a source of solid, accurate coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict. However, readers opening that newspaper on Nov. 20 found a story (“Checkpoints Splinter Palestinian Economy”) focused on checkpoints in the West Bank so biased against Israeli perspectives it could have been […]

Here and there we read about what to expect from President Bush’s Middle East “vision”: increased terror with Katyusha rockets raining on Tel Aviv, a restricted military field of operation, becoming a political protectorate of the Quartet and a military protectorate of NATO, Anschluss of Jordan to Greater Palestine, cutting off the Negev from the […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) The IDF is conducting a large scale operation to confiscate weapons from the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, according to Channel 10 TV. The purpose of the operation is described as “putting the settlers’ gun permits in order.” The security coordinators of the communities in Samaria have been summoned to […]

[Dr. Aaron Lerner – IMRA: Until this report came out, the last refuge for analysts trying to explain the activities of Prime Minister Olmert’s team without going for the obvious (sheer stupidity/blind ideological hubris and/or a cynical willingness to put his interest in avoiding an indictment over the needs of the nation) was the hope […]

By Alan W. Dowd FrontPageMagazine.com | 12/5/2007 “Here’s what we know,” President George W. Bush began in response to a question about the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran. “We know that they’re still trying to learn how to enrich uranium. We know that enriching uranium is an important step in a country who […]

By HaRav Ariel Bar Tzadok. Copyright (C) 1994-2007 by Ariel Bar Tzadok. All rights reserved. Let me begin by setting the record straight. Hanukah is a celebration of victory in war. The miracle of Hanukah was that the few defeated the many in battle. Many today erroneously believe that the primary miracle of Hanukah was […]

by Ari Abramowitz & Jeremy Gimpel How could you advocate dividing Jerusalem? Dear Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky, This letter is being written with shivering hands and chattering teeth from a cold, wet tent on the border between Israel and Gaza. We have read and re-read your article published in the Jewish Journal, “An Orthodox Rabbi’s Plea: […]

By Edward Bernard Glick http://www.americanthinker.com/edward_bernard_glick/ In the zero-sum-game Middle East, if you don’t win, you lose. Despite the conference at the United States Naval Academy, if one looks at the Palestine struggle the way Iran, Hamas, Hizbollah, and Israel’s other existential enemies look at it, they are winning and the Zionists are losing. As they […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 3, 2007 Just ahead of Sunday’s Duma elections, Russian President Vladimir Putin took yet another step towards ending the post-Cold War thaw in Russia’s relations with the West by signing a law suspending Russia’s participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Starting next week, Russia […]