by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) Two civil rights groups have slammed the government for its ongoing gifts and security concessions to the Palestinian Authority, following a terrorist attack on five young hikers in Samaria last Friday afternoon. Three of the teens were injured, suffering serious, moderate and light wounds respectively, when one or two Arab […]

By:Victor Davis Hanson Wednesday, June 18, 2008 Many commentators on Iraq had no strong ideas about the wisdom of removing Saddam Hussein, but often predicated their evolving views on the basis of whether we were perceived as winning or losing – and later made the necessary and often fluid adjustments. So in light of the […]

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Students at the Ramaz high school in Manhattan are mobilizing to help Holocaust survivor Dina Babbitt regain the paintings she made in Auschwitz as a teenager. At a special Yom Hashoah program last week at the Ramaz Upper School on 78th Street, 350 high-schoolers learned about Mrs. Babbitt’s struggle from the […]

New from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs What Iranian Leaders Really Say about Doing Away with Israel: A Refutation of the Campaign to Excuse Ahmadinejad’s Incitement to Genocide Joshua Teitelbaum Over the past several years, Iranian leaders – most prominently, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – have made numerous statements calling for the destruction of […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) Hamas pounded Israel with two powerful Grad Katyusha rockets this afternoon, wounding one person in the city of Ashkelon. The first rocket landed around 3:30 PM in the area of the Moslem cemetery in southern Ashkelon. Three people were reported suffering from shock, and a man later arrived at Barzilai Hospital […]

June 11, 2008 JINSA Report #781 There used to be two immutable and well-understood principles of Israel’s defense. The first principle was “small country; short war.” Israel could not be caught in a war of attrition against infinitely larger and less politically sensitive countries. The corollary – and second principle – was “take the war […]

Despite Olmert and Rice, the State Is Still Holding onto Judea, Samaria, and the Golan According to some reports from Israel, residents of Judea and Samaria and their supporters throughout the world had reason to believe Israel’s 60th anniversary might be the last Yom Ha’atzmaut for communities in the Biblical Jewish homeland. Throughout April, there […]

June 4, 2008 JINSA Report #780 The waning months of the Bush Administration sound more and more like the waning months of the Clinton Administration. The minions believe they represent the right people at the right moment, this moment and no other moment, to “solve” the “Palestinian problem” and provide lasting “peace” for Israel. Baloney. […]

William Mehlman Jerusalem – Daniel Friedmann has planted his muddy, plebeian boots on Israel’s third rail-–the sanctum sanctorum otherwise known as the “High Court of Justice.” That Israel’s intrepid Minister of Justice has thus far avoided the fate of Nadav and Avihu-–the High Priest Aaron’s sons, lightning-bolted for bringing “strange fire” into the Tabernacle-–is as […]

June 10, 2008, 9:46 PM (GMT+02:00) First test of Israel’s Tamir missile interceptor The Tamir interceptor, which are designed to kill artillery shells and short-range rockets, undergoes its first test Wednesday, June 11. Its object is to find out if its response time can be shortened against Palestinian Qassam missiles fired from Gaza or Hizballah’s […]