Straight From The Jerusalem Cloakroom #209, Nov. 26, 2007 JERUSALEM – ANOTHER CASE OF ANNAPOLIS MISPERCEPTION Is the Annapolis Conference a gathering of moderate Arabs? The Arab/Muslim attitude toward Jerusalem provides a documented answer. According to Dr. Mordechai Kedar, an expert on Islamic and Arab studies at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (Makor Rishon […]

By:Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Wednesday, October 24, 2007 For not the first time in his political career, Benjamin Netanyahu has become Israel’s Great Right Hope – a figure looked to with increasing longing by an electorate fed up with the blunders and corruption of the Olmert government. But it was less than a decade ago […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) Senior Palestinian Authority (PA) officials say they have been guaranteed by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that Jews will be evicted from Hevron’s Beit HaShalom. Residents and supporters are defiant. Beit HaShalom, or “Shalom House” with a floor space of over 3,500 square meters, was purchased by Jews from its Arab […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 22, 2007 The mood is dark in the IDF’s General Staff ahead of next week’s “peace” conference in Annapolis. As one senior officer directly involved in the negotiations with the Palestinians and the Americans said, “As bad as it might look from the outside, the truth is 10 […]

Gil Hoffman , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 20, 2007 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546683035&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull National Union MK Arye Eldad will head a new secular right-wing party in the next election that will try to win support away from the Likud and Israel Beiteinu, Eldad announced Tuesday. The party will be called Hatikva, which means “the hope” in Hebrew […]

ELYAKIM HA’ETZNI Some day we’ll recall these tranquil months of Israeli newspaper headlines devoted to road accidents and minor scandals—the headlines of a society free from existential cares—as a fool’s paradise whose fools turned a blind eye to the erupting volcano threatening to bury us all. There was another summer like this one preceding Yom […]

By:P. David Hornik Wednesday, November 21, 2007 It was thirty years ago this week that then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat first visited Israel, publicly launching a diplomatic process that led to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. At present, though, Egypt is “the Arab world’s biggest center of publishing anti-Semitic literature.” So says a new report by the […]

By:Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Nearly three decades ago, Jimmy Carter was closing out a stunningly unimpressive four years in the White House. His approval ratings were lower than Richard Nixon’s had been on the eve of his resignation, and even American Jews, that most doggedly loyal constituent group of the Democratic […]

By Noam Bedein FrontPageMagazine.com | 11/22/2007 SDEROT, Israel — Conventional wisdom holds that next week’s much-publicized peace summit in Annapolis, Maryland, will have no impact on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jewish communities in the western Negev, including the besieged city of Sderot, would beg to differ. Since November 1, this part of Israel has been under […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) An Arab lecturer at Sapir college in Sderot told an IDF soldier who had entered his class in uniform to leave. The student, Eyal Cohen, a lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps and a second year cinema student, had just finished a one-week stint of reserve duty and came directly from his […]