The Gaza Strip was supposed to become a prosperous Palestinian land after Israeli troops pulled out. But a year later, life has worsened. BY RAVI NESSMAN AND IBRAHIM BARZAK Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Just a year ago, Gazans were euphoric with dreams of a renaissance that would turn their squalid, overpopulated patch […]

by Hillel Fendel Arutz Sheva September 17, 2006 Despite an IDF-perceived Hamas interest not to fire Kassams at Israel, three more such rockets were launched at Israel this morning, causing injuries and some panic. One of the rockets hit a street in southern Sderot, another landed in Kibbutz Gevim, just south of Sderot, and a […]

ZOA September 15, 2006 Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 New York – In recent months, while operating against the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror infrastructures throughout Judea and Samaria, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have confiscated material from dozens of structures and offices used by Daawa charity institutes affiliated with terror organizations. These materials (video footage, […]

by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz Arutz Sheva September 16, 2006 At least five churches in the Palestinian Authority have been targeted in a series of attacks since Friday. One Islamic terrorist group threatened to blow up all the churches in Gaza. The attacks and threats represent the response of Islamic fundamentalists in the PA to statements made […]

By Jonathan Lis, Eli Ashkenazi and Ari Shavit, Haaretz Correspondents A number of generals in the reserves are expected to publicly call on Halutz to step down during a meeting with him Friday. In an exclusive interview with Haaretz which will be published in Thursday’s Haaretz Magazine, former chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon said he […]

September 12, 2006 Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 New York – Israeli Arab Members of Knesset (MKs), Azmi Bishara, Jamal Zahalka and Wasal Taha, all members of the Balad Party, have urged the leader of the Islamist terrorist group Hizballah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, to fight Israel, voiced solidarity with Syria’s war against Israel and supported […]

Perspectives Paper No. 21, September 11, 2006 www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa.perspectives21.html Strategic Follies: Israel’s Mistakes in the Second Lebanese War Efraim Inbar Executive Summary: Israel’s political and military leadership was ill-prepared for the war against the Hizballah in the summer of 2006. A series of strategic mistakes on the part of Israeli leaders denied Israel a military victory […]

by Hana Levi Julian Arutz Sheva September 11, 2006 A New York Police Department detective has broken his silence about the connection between Rabbi Meir Kahane’s murderer and the terrorists who destroyed the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center. Political activist Rabbi Meir Kahane was murdered by an Egyptian-born al-Qaeda terrorist after he delivered […]

By: Aaron Klein Jewish Press Wednesday, September 6, 2006 A new Palestinian terror group aligned with the ideology of Al Qaeda has been formed in the Gaza Strip and may plan attacks not only against Israel but also against other “enemies of Islam and their collaborators among Arab regimes,” the group’s leader, Abu Muhammad, told […]

by Ezra HaLevi Arutz Sheva Septemeber 10, 2006 The indictment against Nadia Matar for her fiery letter to Disengagement Authority chief Yonatan Bassi has been expunged, implicitly citing politics in the original decision to indict Matar. The indictment against Women in Green chief Matar claimed that she had violated the ban on “insulting a public […]