by Emanuel A. Winston January 30, 2006 Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has appointed Tzipi Livni as Foreign Minister. Olmert has assigned her the task of issuing cover-up statistics for “Kadima” on the Gaza/Hamas blunder. Livni issued a statement to the effect that “Israel (Sharon) opened the door of peace by abandoning Gaza and the […]

Tova Dadon Despite IDF artillery fire toward Qassam rocket launching sites in northern Gaza and IAF attacks on access roads leading to the sites, Palestinians fired two more rockets at Israel early Saturday. The rockets’ landing site has not been located as of yet, but a large explosion was heard in Sderot. No injuries or […]

After adamantly vowing to deny American funding to the Hamas terrorist organization, Washington at the weekend backtracked by saying it will not halt aid to the Palestinian Authority, but will merely attempt to redirect it to humanitarian works. The Seattle Times quoted visiting US State Department envoy David Welch following his meeting with PA official […]

Aaron Lerner Date: 23 February 2006 Less than three years ago Ehud Olmert still understood the score: “Israel will have to destroy the Islamic terrorist groups along with Arafat’s Fatah guerillas. There can be no short cuts when it comes to eradicating the terrorist groups. Goodwill gestures have repeatedly come back to haunt us and […]

Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 16, 2006 Since Israel withdrew its citizens and military forces from the Gaza Strip last summer, a great deal has been written about the consequences of the destruction of the Jewish communities there for the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria. Much has also been said of the rising […]

Aaron Lerner Date: 20 February 2006 IMRA interviewed Likud MK Dr. Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee, in Hebrew, on 19 February 2006: Q: After the victory of Hamas in the recent PLC elections, acting PM Olmert still intends to carry out major unilateral withdrawals from Judea and Samaria. How […]

Thursday May 23, 2002 is a day that could have easily lived in infamy. That morning tens of thousands of Israelis could have been incinerated when a bomb attached to a tanker truck blew up. The tanker truck had just pulled into Israel’s largest gas (and other fuel) depot, the Pi Glilot fuel depot, located […]

by Caroline Glick, JERUSALEM POST forwarded by Emanuel A. Winston, Middle East Analyst & Commentator Israel’s public debate is known for its ferocity and general nastiness, but very rarely is the prime minister called a bold-faced liar. The fact that both the Likud and Labor called Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert just that after he […]

Something strange happened over the weekend, and I am still trying to figure it all out. In a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz chastised Moscow for legitimizing Hamas by inviting leaders of the terror group to talks in the Russian capital later this month. Since Hamas’ overwhelming victory in last […]

Dr. Stuart Greenstein, professor of surgery at Montefiore Medical Center, is a religious Jews and kidney transplant doctor who has guided many religious Jews through this complex process from the perspectives of the donor and recipient. He recently spoke to The Jewish Press on the issues surrounding organ transplantation and his involvement in trying to […]