by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva August 30, 2006 A Gaza Strip tunnel intended for a large-scale terror attack has been uncovered near the Karni Crossing, and the IDF is working to collapse it. IDF video footage released. The IDF reports that in the wake of intricate and ongoing intelligence-gathering activity by both the IDF and […]

www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1154525966410&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull sheera claire frenkel and jpost.com staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 29, 2006 Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin reiterated on Tuesday at a meeting of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Palestinian terrorist organizations were studying the Lebanese-Israeli war to learn how to play on Israel’s weaker points. Diskin said the West Bank has […]

by Ralph Peters THINK-ISRAEL ISRAEL’S rep for toughness in tatters. Hezbollah triumphant. Iran cockier than ever. Syria untouched. Lebanon’s government crippled. An orgy of anti-Semitism in the global media. Anti-Americanism exploding among Iraqi Shi’as inspired by Hezbollah. Thanks, Prime Minister Olmert. Great job, guy. The debacle in Lebanon wasn’t even a war. It was only […]

By Hillel Fendel, from Israel National News (INN), (based on incidents collected by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner) A collection of incidents of Israeli bravery and heroism during the recent war in Lebanon . Offensive Defense A unit of the Harel Division was charged with taking over the outskirts of a southern Lebanese village from which Katyusha […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is supporting efforts being made by Representative Tom Lantos, the top Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, to have the $230 million US aid package for Lebanon frozen until the Lebanese government of Fouad Siniora takes control of its borders with Syria and prevents arms […]

By: Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. Jewish Press Wednesday, August 23, 2006 Our beloved Israel is engaged in an existential fight for survival. From the moment of its birth in 1948, Israel has been under constant siege. This latest war, however, feels different. It comes upon Israel after decades of non-stop terrorist attacks, large-scale military battles, and […]

By Victor Davis Hanson From the recent Israel-Hezbollah war in southern Lebanon to the jihadists in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle to the repeated efforts by Islamists across the globe to trump Sept. 11, what old lessons about terrorism are we in the West finding ourselves having to relearn? First, death is the mantra of terrorists. In […]

Only around forty Jews remain in the Lebanese capital. The once thriving community had sixteen synagogues; today, there is only one, with a broken roof Sefi Hendler Paris: After speaking for over an hour, Moshe wanted to stop the conversation. “Let’s talk slowly. It hurts me,” he sighed. Moshe soon recovered. “It’s okay. You can […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva August 27, 2006 The officially-neutral UN peacekeeping force posted, on its website, information about Israel’s troop deployments in Lebanon – but nothing about Hizbullah. UNIFIL (UN Interim Force in Lebanon), the neutral force that has been stationed there since 1978, is tasked with maintaining peace between Israel and Hizbullah along […]

Sarah Honig, THE JERUSALEM POST August 25, 2006 On Friday night, July 14, the conflict in Israel’s north was already a few days old. Some folks in battered Nahariya decided to leave town. Among them were the Pesachovs, who sought safety at Grandma Yehudit Itzkowitz’s home in Moshav Meron. That evening they gathered there for […]