By Tomer Zarchin and Chaim Levinson, Haaretz Correspondents www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112231.html The High Court asked state prosecutors why the state discriminates between illegal Jewish and Palestinian building in the West Bank, citing the lack of enforcement of demolition warrants against illegally-built Palestinian buildings in the area. The High Court hearing on Thursday came after the right-wing “Regavim […]

Eli E. Hertz Norway has declared a boycott of the Israeli company Elbit. This company manufactures monitoring devices installed on the separation fence Israel built in order to impede the movements of suicide bombers into Israel. Norwegian authorities claim that they have acted in accordance with the 2004 International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion, […]

by Thomas Landen It is hot in Brussels. Ramadan has begun. The faithful in the predominantly Muslim borough of Molenbeek are not allowed to eat or drink from sunrise until sunset. Non-Muslim policemen, patrolling the streets of Molenbeek in their sweltering cars, are not allowed to eat or drink either. As every year during Ramadan, […]

By: Louis Rene Beres Credo quia absurdum. “I believe because it is absurd.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now officially on record in favor of creating a Palestinian state (a position that he had long opposed), but only if the new Arab state is “demilitarized.” Naturally, any such notion of demilitarization will be anathema […]

Michael Fenenbock slams Obama’s decision to link two-state solution, help with Iran Michael Fenenbock As reported last week, President Obama has now linked forcing Israeli concessions on a two-state solution to American help with Iran and its nuclear ambitions. The Obama administration is prepared to offer Israel tougher action against Iran’s nuclear program if the […]

By: Yoram Ettinger The idea that a Palestinian state can lead to enduring peace in the Middle East has become a diplomatic obsession for American policy makers. Bringing such a state into being has become the equivalent of finding the Holy Grail. In fact, however, a Palestinian state would not only fail to bring peace […]

Written by an Israeli named Dan Sporn אני יהודי נכתב ×¢”×™ ישראלי בשם דן ספורן Our condition, in Israel , has never been better than it is now! Only The television and the media make people think that the end of the World is near.. Only 65 years ago, Jews were brought to death like […]

By: Helen Freedman When I received the invitation from Shani Hikind at the Ateret Cohanim/Jerusalem Reclamation Project to accompany 2008 Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee on a mission to Israel, I immediately accepted. Having heard him speak during many campaign debates and being a fan of his FOX News television show, […]

Dear Friends, As I have written in a number of articles recently, Israelis consider President Obama to be deeply hostile to Israel. A Jerusalem Post poll from June showed that only 6 percent of Israeli Jews think that he is pro-Israel and a more recent Haaretz poll showed that a mere 12 percent of Israelis […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has submitted an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a petition for Court review filed by the parents of David Boim, a victim of Palestinian Arab terrorism. The brief was prepared by David I. Schoen, Esq., a distinguished criminal lawyer […]