For more information, contact Aaron Tirschwell aaron@aiacoalition.org The American Israeli Action Coalition (AIAC) today urged U.S. President Obama to direct his National Security Advisor General James Jones not to appear at J Street’s conference scheduled to be held in Washington DC next week. J Street had previously announced that General Jones will be the conference’s […]

by Jeff Jacoby The Boston Globe October 14, 2009 http://www.jeffjacoby.com/6418/peace-vs-the-peace-process NOTE: This column is available through the New York Times Syndicate. For permission to reprint it, please contact pearsmh@nytimes.com or call 800-535-4425. “WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY,” the late Irving Kristol once observed, “they first tempt to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.” Maybe “destroy” was putting […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) According to initial reports, a female terrorist stabbed a security person in the stomach Sunday afternoon at the Kalandia checkpoint in northern Jerusalem. He was taken to the hospital in moderate condition. The terrorist was reportedly caught and her knife confiscated. According to initial reports she was not shot. Earlier this […]

1. Military affairs a. Short range rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza. Several smuggling tunnels from Egypt into Gaza were bombed. 2. Middle Eastern diplomacy a. Israeli relations with Turkey continue to be an issue. i. Turkish military sources now claim that Israeli participation in the Anatolian Eagle air force exercises was canceled due […]

By ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support […]

by Yoram Ettinger Special To The Jewish Week The all-time record of daily Jewish births at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, set on Sept. 21, reflects the substantial rise in Israel’s Jewish fertility. Delivery rooms are functioning at 100 percent capacity. Anyone claiming that Jews are doomed to become a minority between the Jordan River and […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Once the apotheosis of a pro-Western, dependable Muslim democracy, this week Turkey officially left the Western alliance and became a full member of the Iranian axis. It isn’t that Ankara’s behavior changed fundamentally in recent days. There is nothing new in its massive hostility toward Israel and its effusive […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) An Arab driver who killed a little Jewish girl riding her bicycle near the synagogue in Kfar Tavor on Yom Kippur Eve in 2007 was sentenced to nine years in prison on Tuesday. His accomplice was sentenced to just two years in jail, longer than the time that has already passed […]

© 2009 WorldNetDaily WASHINGTON – U.S. lawmakers called this morning for an investigation into a Muslim non-profit group suspected of infiltrating congressional offices with interns. Rep. Sue Myrick, R-N.C., founder of the anti-terrorism caucus, says “Muslim Mafia, Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America,” a publication of WND Books to hit the shelves […]