INSS Insight No. 178, April 28, 2010 Schachter, Jonathan, Guzansky, Yoel, and Schweitzer, Yoram www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=3977 During a recent trip to Prague, where he signed a new arms control treaty with Russia, President Barack Obama declared that nuclear terrorism is “the most immediate and extreme threat to global security.” Though the unique destructive power of nuclear […]

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu (Israelnationalnews.com) Three men sprayed tear gas on an elderly Jew outside a French synagogue Sunday, the second violent attack on Jews in the country in three days. The attackers of the elderly man left behind an anti-Semitic slogan, according to the London Telegraph. The attackers, still at-large, launched the attack as […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) A Jewish man was brutally attacked in Strasbourg, France, on Friday night. The man, who is 42, was attacked by two assailants. One of them hit him across the back of the head with a metal rod and the other stabbed him in the chest. He was reportedly in serious condition. […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Dalia Emanueloff, whose son Dvir was the first Israeli soldier to fall during Operation Cast Lead, spoke Sunday to Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew-language news service, and clarified a story circulating online about her, her son, and a young baby bearing his name. The story began on Dvir’s birthday last summer, Dalia said. […]

By Barak Ravid Haaretz www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1166413.html U.S. President Barack Obama has told several European leaders that if Israeli-Palestinian talks remain stalemated into September or October, he will convene an international summit on achieving Mideast peace, senior Israeli officials told Haaretz on Thursday. The officials said the conference would be run by the Quartet of Middle East […]

by Baruch Gordon (Israelnationalnews.com) Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an equal opportunity destroyer. It attacks the central nervous system and eventually renders most patients disabled. Among its high-profile victims are celebrated cellist Jacqueline du Pre, whose career was ended by MS, and Joan Didion, a famous American writer. The National MS Society estimates that there are […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is in Washington this week to meet with senior United States officials. In a news conference held during his tour, Barkat took a firm stance on the Obama administration’s pressure to stop building houses for Jews in eastern Jerusalem, saying a construction freeze would be “illegal”. “There’s […]

by Gil Ronen (Israelnationalnews.com) The State Prosecution and the residents of Beit Yehonatan in the Shiloach neighborhood have agreed to have the Jerusalem Administrative Court decide the fate of the building, which is inhabited by eight Jewish families. The residents told Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein that they have agreed to request a temporary injunction from […]

by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) A near-lynch in Jerusalem last week led police to admit that they have a policy of not getting involved when Arabs attack Jewish motorists, a victim says. Baruch Heller, whose car was smashed by Arabs as he left the Kotel (Western Wall), spoke to Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew news service about the […]

WorldNetDaily ‘This is a huge victory on the constitutional issues’ WorldNetDaily Bus ads offering support to Muslims wanting to leave Islam that were censored just days ago by the Miami-Dade Transit agency because of complaints from Muslims are being returned to the streets, this time in even greater numbers. The ads are the work of […]