Eran Sternberg, director of Arutz Sheva’s televised programming, was forcibly detained and questioned by General Security Services (GSS) on Tuesday. They warned him that he “had best be careful.” The GSS (Israel’s domestic intelligence agency) claimed that Sternberg engaged in violent incitement against officers of the law. Sternberg, who was the former spokesman for the […]

By Ari Shavit For five years, Giora Eiland was the most important person on the command bridge of the Israeli ship of state. Both as head of the Israel Defense Forces’ Operations Directorate and as head of the National Security Council, Eiland deal with the most important strategic issues that Israel faces. He worked in […]

It was another one of those pictures that goes instantly around the world. A young Palestinian, wailing in wretched sorrow, grieving over her dead father, stepmother and five siblings, killed by an explosion on a Gaza beach. Then came the blame. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (he’s the moderate) immediately called the killings an act […]

June 16, 2006 Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 ZOA New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has renewed its criticism of the Israeli decision last month to transfer weapons to Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mamhoud Abbas’ presidential guard, Force 17, after a senior Force 17 member, Abu Yousuf, did not deny that such […]

In 1993, I was one of the few Canadian Jews who moved to Israel. A year later, I volunteered for the Israeli army. I was 23 years old, five years older than native-born Israelis when they begin to serve. I served for a year in the Golani infantry brigade and then, for the next ten […]

By Kenneth Lasson – The Baltimore Jewish News – June 9, 2006 [Provided by Justice4JP] Who wants to hear anything more about Jonathan Pollard? Not the government of the United States, or its criminal justice system, which long ago convicted Pollard of passing classified information to a foreign government – an offense normally punished by […]

Palestinian terrorists struggled with and tried to force two Jewish girls at gunpoint into a car – but an army vehicle happened along, and the would-be kidnappers were caught near Shilo. The incident began shortly before 3 PM. Two 9th grade girls were standing at the Rechelim junction on Highway 60, waiting for a ride […]

New York – Ari Shavit, the distinguished columnist for the major Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, said today, “the basic law of the Israeli – Palestinian jungle is that an Israeli withdrawal does not diminish the conflict, but instead exacerbates it.” (Ha’aretz, June 12, 2006). Other quotes from Shavit article: “The unilateralist strategy was never accepted by […]

No joy in the Knesset Finance Committee, whose members received the latest report on the status of the uprooted Gush Katif residents today. 70% of the families in Nitzan are still unemployed. Some 150 expellees demonstrated today, for the fourth straight day, on the Ashkelon highway. Blocking the highway near the hastily-constructed town of Nitzan […]

by Professor Jonathan Adelman, from Aish Hatorah Resources. Aish is the place for everything you want to know about Judaism . For permission to reprint, e-mail Aish at reprints@aish.com When Jewish parents take their children to university campuses this fall, those who have not set foot on a quad from the 1960’s through 1980’s may […]