Dear HonestReporting Subscriber, As HonestReporting has repeatedly stated, pictures are central aspects of news stories. The decision of which photograph should accompany a report is an editorial matter of tremendous importance. It can completely change the way an textual story is understood by the reader. On Saturday (Nov. 5), a Palestinian child playing with a […]

On 30.10.05, security forces arrested three residents of the Gaza Strip, members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, as well as an Egyptian national with considerable experience in smuggling weapons. The four men were apprehended in the Zihor area, south of Mitzpe Ramon after having infiltrated into the Negev from Sinai. The four men are: Akhram […]

Israel`s former chief of general staff had continued till the end to underestimate the strategic and historic importance of the Golan Heights. Speaking last August to Yediot Aharonot, Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya`alon remarked that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) could defend the country`s borders even without the 452-square-mile Golan plateau. Israel annexed the Golan in […]

The Committee to Prevent Temple Mount Artifacts Desecration warns that Muslim Waqf construction works are once again underway – this time at the Temple entrance path taken by Jews 2,000 years ago. The Committee sent a letter on the matter this week to the Prime Minister and to the Director of the Antiquities Authority. The […]

In a massive offensive, Hizbullah terrorists fired Katyusha rockets and mortar shells at Israeli targets and infiltrated an IDF position in the Har Dov region Monday, wounding eleven, two seriously. Dozens of Katyusha rockets were fired at the cities of Kiryat Shemona, Metulah and other targets in the Galilee throughout Monday afternoon and evening. In […]

The White House ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to stay over in Jerusalem until the deal for the Gaza Strip’s international crossings was in the bag. She was almost there – “an accord is within sight” – Monday, Nov. 14. But she delayed her departure to join President Bush in South Korea until it […]

Condoleezza Rice is a top Poker player, especially when facing Israelis who are unfamiliar with the Washington ropes and are therefore easily intimidated by the Secretary of State. The assumption that Israel cannot afford to defy the US is divorced from reality. Such an assumption reflects mis-comprehension of 1948-1992 precedents of the wider context of […]

New York – The ZOA has concerns that the deal brokered by the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) on reopening the Gaza-Egypt border crossing at Rafah, providing bus convoys for passage of Palestinians between Gaza and Judea and Samaria and opening a PA seaport at Gaza poses a […]

With the Likud preparing for new elections and the threat posed by Amir Peretz, Likud member and journalist Moshe Ifregan analyzes the significance of Peretz’s win and how the party should respond. “The Likud most definitely feels threatened by Peretz,” Ifregan told Arutz-7’s Ariel Kahane this week, “but what is more significant is the fact […]

New York – Leading, second-generation figures in Fatah, whose president is Mahmoud Abbas, and who today hold high office in the PA, have recently made statements supporting continued terrorism against Israel and the country’s destruction. Statements by these senior Fatah figures demonstrate this extremist anti-Israel, pro-terror outlook: * Jibril Rajoub, PA National Security Advisor: “The […]