by Elyakim Haetzni PART 1. ISRAEL’S PROXIMATE CAUSE: THE SHOAH, INDEPENDENCE, AND 40 YEARS OF SETTLEMENT This year in particular, there was significance to the proximity of Holocaust Remembrance Day to the celebrations of Independence Day. The prime minister of Israel — the Israel that’s been likened to the phoenix rising from the ashes of […]

November 09, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500 New York — The former Labor Party leader and Defense Minister, Benyamin Ben Eliezer, who is now National Infrastructure Minister in the government of Ehud Olmert, has admitted publicly that Israel’s 2005 unilateral withdrawal from Gaza was a big mistake. Speaking in a radio […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 8, 2007 The Battle of Iraq is nearly over. And the Americans have nearly won. Their enemies are on the run. Al-Qaida forces have lost or are losing their bases of operations. Its fighters are being killed and captured in ever increasing numbers. Iraq’s Sunni citizens, who, until […]

By:Steven Plaut Wednesday, November 7, 2007 Q: Should Israel attend the upcoming Annapolis peace conference? A: No. Nothing positive can come out of it. For fifteen years Israel has been attending “talks” with the Palestinians and these have achieved absolutely nothing other than Israeli capitulation. In each round of talks Israel has given away more […]

New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is strongly supporting Senators Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) in their sponsorship of the ZOA-initiated Saudi Arabia Accountability Act of 2007 (S. 2243), which is designed to “strongly encourage the government of Saudi Arabia to end its support for institutions that fund, train, incite, […]

Hagai Segal, Makor Rishon, Feb. 23, 2007 Ettinger has already convinced most politicians and journalists that Israel’s leading demographers have been mistaken “YORAM ETTINGER IS RELENTLESSLY UNDERMINING DEMOGRAPHIC HYSTERIA. It has been many months since this polite person, a top expert on US policy, has conducted 4-5 daily briefings with policy-makers and public-opinion molders, sharing […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Nov. 5, 2007 From October 26-30, a mob of Druse villagers in Peki’in in the Galilee launched what has all the markings of a pogrom against the four Jewish families in the village. They burned their cars and surrounded and torched their homes. The police took a full day […]

by Daniel Pipes Jerusalem Post October 24, 2007 The Bush administration’s plans to convene a new round of Israeli-Arab diplomacy on Nov. 26 will, I predict, do substantial damage to American and Israeli interests. As a rule, successful negotiations require a common aim; in management-labor talks, for example, both sides want to get back to […]

While western democracies consider peace a permanent and a sublime strategic goal, Islamic law defines peace as a tactic and as the short intervals which are not war. Enclosed you’ll find the 208th issue of Straight From The Jerusalem Cloakroom, which features excerpts from “War And Peace In The Law Of Islam”, by the late […]

by Hana Levi Julian (IsraelNN.com) Police Superintendent Peri Margalit testified Thursday there may have been extenuating circumstances to explain why mounted police officer David Edry trampled a protestor during the February 2006 beating and forcible eviction of Jews at the Amona community. Edry is charged with deliberately attacking protestor Yehuda Etzion. Margalit testified during Edry’s […]