by Maayana Miskin (Israelnationalnews.com) The second Judea and Samaria building freeze pushed by the United States will be stricter than the first, in that it will include a ban on completing construction projects that are already underway, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu revealed Sunday. Netanyahu unveiled details of the potential second freeze in a meeting with […]

(Guide for the Perplexed) Yoram Ettinger, CEO, “Second Thought: US-Israel Initiative” YnetNews, November 21, 2010 http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3987292,00.html 1. The complex nature of Jewish construction in the Settlements. If Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria prejudges the outcome of negotiation, wouldn’t Palestinian construction in Judea and Samaria have the same effect?! If the uprooting of Jewish communities […]

By Alan Jacobs Audience members in the packed Jewish Theological Seminary auditorium just down the block from Columbia University might have been gratified to see hijabs and yarmulkes adorning the heads of Muslims and Jews coming together for interfaith dialogue on the evening of October 25. The title of the event, “Islam in America: Assimilation […]

by Marc Prowisor (Israelnationalnews.com) It is always important to make observations from all angles, from all views. To understand a situation we must sometimes look Many caring Jews were hijacked by the “Left Wing”, J Street and so on, it was actually scary to see many people “zombied” into toting the company jargon and logo. […]

Op-ed: Terrorists convinced that they can get away with murder, and even be rewarded Yoram Ettinger The United States is justly perceived as the role-model for democracy: freedom of expression, religion, movement, media, Internet and election. Therefore, the US is perceived as a lethal threat by Muslim regimes in the Middle East, all of which […]

Op-ed: Terrorists convinced that they can get away with murder, and even be rewarded Yoram Ettinger The United States is justly perceived as the role-model for democracy: freedom of expression, religion, movement, media, Internet and election. Therefore, the US is perceived as a lethal threat by Muslim regimes in the Middle East, all of which […]

by Prof. Phyllis Chesler (Israelnationalnews.com) There is no peace and consequently, I have no peace. Every morning, I wake up to news about Muslims blowing each other up in Duisenberg…has said that Israelis are kidnapping Arab boys, removing their organs (!), and then returning them to Gaza. mosques during a prayer service—and yes, Muslims are […]

By Stella Paul Just for laughs, I collected a week of headlines about Islam around the globe. (Admittedly, the laughs are heavy on black humor.) The week I randomly chose began on October 4, 2010 and turned out to be the typical apocalyptic nightmare that most weeks are now, in this golden age of hope […]

By David Solway In 1839, the Russian novelist Mikhail Lermontov published A Hero of our Time, the tale of a melancholy romantic by the name of Grigory Pechorin. In the preface to the book, Lermontov explains that his protagonist is “a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of our […]

by Dr. Avi Perry (Israelnationalnews.com) It happened while I was driving in downtown Haifa. They were standing in a busy intersection, all six of them, flashing signs—“For Israel…. Against Occupation.” I wanted to stop and ask them if they understood the contradiction, since Palestinian Arabs refer to Israel-proper as “The Occupation.” Unfortunately, the heavy traffic […]