Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem Thursday, June 14, 2007 Recently an event occurred in Israel which upset me greatly. Two Christian Evangelical groups, Bridges for Peace and the International Christian Embassy were planning a Conference in Jerusalem “to promote the status of Women based on Biblical values”, under the auspices of the […]

With great care, the media has thus far studiously avoided calling the internecine Palestinian warfare exactly what it is: a civil war. But as the violence has reached new heights over the past few days, with running gun-battles taking place in Gaza hospitals between Hamas and Fatah thugs and mutual assassination attempts directed against the […]

Former IDF Intelligence officer says Gaza infighting may lead to ‘formal terror state that will attract al-Qaeda and threaten all of Israel’. MK Vilnai: The Palestinians have become pawns in someone’s game Meital Zur YNET Published: 06.13.07, 23:08 / Israel News www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3412560,00.html “The irresponsible pullout from Gaza allowed Hamas to arm itself with mass amounts […]

By DANIEL PIPES May 29, 2007 One of the great enigmas of the modern Middle East is why, 40 years ago next week, the Six-Day War took place. Neither Israel nor its Arab neighbors wanted or expected a fight in June 1967; the consensus view among historians holds that the unwanted combat resulted from a […]

By: Rabbi Eliezer Waldman Jewish Press Wednesday, June 6, 2007 A recent headline in the Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot reported that certain military advisers are putting pressure on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to initiate talks with Syria for fear of a Syrian attack on Israel this summer. Those who advocate this policy are controlled […]

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe columnist | June 10, 2007 THE 40TH anniversary of Israel’s astonishing victory in the Six Day War has unleashed a gusher of revisionist history. On the BBC website, for example, Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen’s retrospective on the war begins by noting that “it took only six days for Israel to […]

The fate of the Gaza Strip KHALED ABU TOAMEH http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=MmRiZTE0MjZlNzA3Y2EyYWQ4ZTcyYzMxMTBhZWIxMGE= Nahed Nimer had just finished afternoon prayers at his home in Gaza City when he heard loud banging at the door. About twelve gunmen stormed their way in, aiming rifles at the terrified man and his family. “Come with us for ten minutes,” the intruders […]

By: Sergey Kadinsky Jewish Press Wednesday, June 6, 2007 It was shocking to see the writer Hillel Halkin marking the 40th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem by calling for its division. In a May 15 op-ed in the New York Sun (“Mounting Figures”), Halkin wrote about the concern of Israeli political leaders with demographics. […]

by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) National Union MK proposes legislation to revoke the Disengagement Law and enable the government to renew Jewish settlement in northern Shomron. In submitting his proposed legislation to the Knesset this week, MK Eldad explained, “Ever since the end of the expulsion, on Sept. 22, 2005, the events have proven that the […]

Sarah Honig, THE JERUSALEM POST June 1, 2007 Most murders-by-Kassam in Sderot occurred outdoors: a three-year-old taken by his mother to kindergarten, a grown-up resting on a park bench, an Ethiopian-immigrant tot and his baby sister playing on the sidewalk, a schoolgirl returning with her younger brother from after-class activities, a worker in the factory […]