Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem Thursday, June 14, 2007 Recently an event occurred in Israel which upset me greatly. Two Christian Evangelical groups, Bridges for Peace and the International Christian Embassy were planning a Conference in Jerusalem “to promote the status of Women based on Biblical values”, under the auspices of the […]

By Kelly Hartog Israel21c June 13, 2007 When Michael Saliba wants his two dogs to follow his commands, he barks out the following orders: Chapes (search), Artza (lie down) Ken (yes), and Shev (sit). Pretty standard commands for any dog… if you live in Israel. But Saliba is a deputy sheriff in Santa Clara in […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva June 14, 2007 (IsraelNN.com) A Kassam rocket slammed into a schoolyard Wednesday morning – thirty minutes before it would have been filled with children. The high school, in a community near Sderot, has not been reinforced, and the building’s music room was damaged by the explosion. One woman was treated […]

With great care, the media has thus far studiously avoided calling the internecine Palestinian warfare exactly what it is: a civil war. But as the violence has reached new heights over the past few days, with running gun-battles taking place in Gaza hospitals between Hamas and Fatah thugs and mutual assassination attempts directed against the […]

Former IDF Intelligence officer says Gaza infighting may lead to ‘formal terror state that will attract al-Qaeda and threaten all of Israel’. MK Vilnai: The Palestinians have become pawns in someone’s game Meital Zur YNET Published: 06.13.07, 23:08 / Israel News www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3412560,00.html “The irresponsible pullout from Gaza allowed Hamas to arm itself with mass amounts […]

Gaza on verge of becoming Hamastan Khaled Abu Toameh, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 12, 2007 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181570255159&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday accused Hamas of staging a “bloody coup” to try and take full control of the Gaza Strip. His allegations came as thousands of Hamas militiamen launched a full-scale attack on Fatah figures […]

By DANIEL PIPES May 29, 2007 One of the great enigmas of the modern Middle East is why, 40 years ago next week, the Six-Day War took place. Neither Israel nor its Arab neighbors wanted or expected a fight in June 1967; the consensus view among historians holds that the unwanted combat resulted from a […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) For the first time, a visit to the ruins of a Disengagement-destroyed town is sanctioned by the government – and that’s precisely what worries some supporters. The army and police will be on hand Tuesday afternoon and evening to protect thousands of expected Land of Israel loyalists as they march to […]

By: Rabbi Eliezer Waldman Jewish Press Wednesday, June 6, 2007 A recent headline in the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported that certain military advisers are putting pressure on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to initiate talks with Syria for fear of a Syrian attack on Israel this summer. Those who advocate this policy are controlled […]

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe columnist | June 10, 2007 THE 40TH anniversary of Israel’s astonishing victory in the Six Day War has unleashed a gusher of revisionist history. On the BBC website, for example, Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen’s retrospective on the war begins by noting that “it took only six days for Israel to […]