by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) The end of the Shavuot holiday in the south was punctuated Wednesday evening with a fresh salvo of four rockets fired by terrorists from Gaza. Three rockets exploded in the Sderot area, sending residents racing for the shelters for the second time that day. A fourth rocket scored a direct […]

by Hillel Fendel – Arutz7 News – May 22, 2007 (via J4JP) US Ambassador Richard Jones has apologized for his statements about Jonathan Pollard. Pollard supporters, however, have a series of demands: They want a full retraction from Jones, as well as immediate action by Prime Minister Olmert to demand a pardon from US President […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 21, 2007 The Olmert-Livni-Peretz government is incapable of learning. This is the only possible explanation for its handling of the Palestinian assault on southern Israel which has seen some 200 rockets and missiles fall on Sderot, southern Ashkelon and the surrounding areas in the past week alone. On Sunday, […]

A new Israeli poll has revealed that clear majorities of Israeli Jews believe Palestinian Arabs want to destroy Israel and reject land-for-peace deals & unilateral concessions to Palestinian Arabs. The poll of 709 Israeli Jews, carried out by INSS (previously the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies) shows the following: * A large majority of Israelis […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) A local woman was killed by a Kassam rocket in Sderot Monday night after an attack that scored a direct hit on her car as she stood next to it near a bakery in the center of town. The woman, whose age was estimated by eyewitnesses to be about 35, […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Wednesday, May 16, 2007 First published here almost one year ago, Professor Beres’ column about Prime Minister Olmert’s devastating policy errors was a warning unheeded. Written even before the 2006 Lebanon War fiasco, it takes on new and especially urgent meanings following the scathing report by Israel’s Winograd Commission. In essence, […]

by Ezra HaLevi (IsraelNN.com) A hassid paces on the Jerusalem corner where the neighborhoods of Musrara and Meah Shearim meet. “Kever Yoisef, Shechem” he mumbles. Forced by government policy to operate like the drug dealers in NYC’s Washington Square Park, the religious hassid, who is offering a trip to the Tomb of the biblical Joseph […]

David Wilder May 20, 2007 Last week was Hebron Liberation Day, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the return to the City of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs during the 1967 Six-day War. This is always a momentous event, and this year even more so, considering all that’s been happening in Israel over the past months and […]

Did George Tenet threaten to resign as CIA director if Jonathan Pollard were to be released as part of the 1998 Wye River interim peace agreement with Israel? By Marc Perelman – The Forward [NY] – Friday May 18, 2007 www.forward.com/articles/former-cia-chief-changes-tune-on-pollard-story/ According to news reports at the time, then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had insisted […]

by Gil Ronen (IsraelNN.com) Minister of Transportation Shaul Mofaz says the IDF needs to start eliminating the terror groups’ leaders, as it did when he was Minister of Defense. In an interview on Channel 2 Saturday, Mofaz said: “We have some good starts here, there are steps being taken against the terror masters, [but] we […]