Israel’s demographic establishment has been dramatically wrong: Demography constitutes a strategic asset, not a liability. The claim that Jews are doomed to become a minority, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, is in direct contradiction of demographic reality. Such a claim has yielded demographic fatalism, which has dominated Israel’s academic, media, political and security […]

by Prof. MK Arieh Eldad I really don’t know why I’m writing this. Three thousand of Sderot’s residents have fled the city in the past year because the Israeli government has failed despicably in the prime obligation of every state towards its citizens: to protect them. Just like the hundreds of thousands of residents of […]

by Hillel Fendel Israel National News Published: 11/13/07, 4:35 PM www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124237 (IsraelNN.com) After two years in office, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Tuesday afternoon for the first time with representatives of the Council of Jewish Towns in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) and clarified his intentions to continue a freeze on Jewish construction in the region. […]

By:Aaron Klein Wednesday, November 14, 2007 JERUSALEM – The Hamas terror group will take over the West Bank if Israel evacuates the strategic territory to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, said Mahmoud al-Zahar, widely considered the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “Israel thinks Fatah in the West Bank is there to […]

By Nicky Blackburn November 13, 2007 When US Internet giant America Online wants to go shopping for new Internet technologies, it heads to Israel. In less than a week, the Time Warner subsidiary has purchased two Israeli companies – Internet advertising technology company Quigo Technologies, for an estimated $350 million, and now search technology start-up […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Gov’t to speed up approvals for new communities for Gush Katif expellees… A new medical center to be built in “appreciation” for absorption efforts… Rockets and unrest continue in Gaza… More… * The government’s ministerial committee decided Sunday to shorten planning procedures for the new communities slated to be built for […]

The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, Edited by Andrew Bostom, Prometheus Books, 750 pp. $28. Reviewed by Rael Jean Isaac The famous Jewish philosopher and physician Maimonides, often cited as an example of the fruitful symbiosis of Jewish and Islamic culture, had this to say of Arabs: “The Arabs […]

by Elyakim Haetzni PART 1. ISRAEL’S PROXIMATE CAUSE: THE SHOAH, INDEPENDENCE, AND 40 YEARS OF SETTLEMENT This year in particular, there was significance to the proximity of Holocaust Remembrance Day to the celebrations of Independence Day. The prime minister of Israel — the Israel that’s been likened to the phoenix rising from the ashes of […]

November 09, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 New York — The former Labor Party leader and Defense Minister, Benyamin Ben Eliezer, who is now National Infrastructure Minister in the government of Ehud Olmert, has admitted publicly that Israel’s 2005 unilateral withdrawal from Gaza was a big mistake. Speaking in a radio […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) State Comptroller Lindenstrauss is likely to take on a major new case: The various Israeli governments’ handling of the Jonathan Pollard affair and their failure to obtain his release. The idea was that of MK Zevulun Orlev, leader of the National Religious Party and chairman of the Knesset State Audit Committtee. […]