by Ralph Peters THINK-ISRAEL ISRAEL’S rep for toughness in tatters. Hezbollah triumphant. Iran cockier than ever. Syria untouched. Lebanon’s government crippled. An orgy of anti-Semitism in the global media. Anti-Americanism exploding among Iraqi Shi’as inspired by Hezbollah. Thanks, Prime Minister Olmert. Great job, guy. The debacle in Lebanon wasn’t even a war. It was only […]

By Hillel Fendel, from Israel National News (INN), (based on incidents collected by Rabbi Shlomo Aviner) A collection of incidents of Israeli bravery and heroism during the recent war in Lebanon . Offensive Defense A unit of the Harel Division was charged with taking over the outskirts of a southern Lebanese village from which Katyusha […]

By: Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. Jewish Press Wednesday, August 23, 2006 Our beloved Israel is engaged in an existential fight for survival. From the moment of its birth in 1948, Israel has been under constant siege. This latest war, however, feels different. It comes upon Israel after decades of non-stop terrorist attacks, large-scale military battles, and […]

By Victor Davis Hanson From the recent Israel-Hezbollah war in southern Lebanon to the jihadists in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle to the repeated efforts by Islamists across the globe to trump Sept. 11, what old lessons about terrorism are we in the West finding ourselves having to relearn? First, death is the mantra of terrorists. In […]

Sarah Honig, THE JERUSALEM POST August 25, 2006 On Friday night, July 14, the conflict in Israel’s north was already a few days old. Some folks in battered Nahariya decided to leave town. Among them were the Pesachovs, who sought safety at Grandma Yehudit Itzkowitz’s home in Moshav Meron. That evening they gathered there for […]

By: Yehudit Katzover Jewish Press Wednesday, August 23, 2006 Six days after the “Three Weeks War,” our goal is to carry on, with all the more determination, the mission to bring about a great awakening among the Jewish people. At this time, the Jewish people are at the height of a harsh struggle for their […]

By P. David Hornik FrontPageMagazine.com | August 24, 2006 “We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies. We want them to […]

LETTER FROM RUTH MATAR (WOMEN IN GREEN) JERUSALEM Thursday, August 24, 2006 Dear Friends, The mood in Israel is very despondent and apprehensive. No doubt about it, we lost the Lebanon war against Hezbullah. We did not even succeed in obtaining the return of the two reserve soldiers kidnapped by Hezbullah, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad […]

By: Steven Plaut Jewish Press Wednesday, August 23, 2006 It was a war Israel was more afraid of winning than of losing. It was a war whose battlefield strategy was based on posturing – on acting as if Israel were conducting an actual all-out war. It was a war in which Israel attempted to defeat […]

By Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com August 18, 2006 We’ve all known brave soldiers who fought courageously in multiple conflicts only to succumb to lingering and debilitating illnesses years later. Likewise, history tells us of nations that never lost a battle in combat only to die because they lost their sense of purpose, their will to survive. […]