March 4, 2009 DAVID MATAS, THE JERUSALEM POST Two urban legends about the yellow star are commonly told. In one, French Vichy officials during World War II gave Moroccan authorities yellow stars for the Jews of Morocco to wear. King Mohammad V asked for a dozen more, explaining that he wanted them so that he […]

Mar. 2, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Provoked by the Palestinians’ escalating missile campaign, on Sunday evening the Ashkelon Parents Association voted not to send their children to school on Monday. Ever since the outgoing Kadima government ended Operation Cast Lead in Gaza on January 20, the Palestinians have steadily stepped-up their missile […]

By: Caroline B. Glick Date: Wednesday, February 25 2009 Since the Democratic Party’s presidential primaries a year ago, there has been an ongoing debate about how Barack Obama perceives the U.S. alliance with Israel. After he entered office last month, the need to understand what President Obama thinks about Israel has become acute as we […]

By Jacob Laksin FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, February 26, 2009 NEW YORK – It’s been a tough few weeks for Geert Wilders. First, an Amsterdam appeals court announced in late January that it was going to bring the blunt-speaking Dutch parliamentarian to trial for offending Muslims with his anti-Islam film, Fitna. Just a few weeks later, […]

Louis René Beres President Barack Obama has already placed the Middle East at the very top of his foreign policy agenda. There is nothing inherently wrong with this ordering; quite the contrary. The problem, however, is that the new administration’s ambitious negotiations remain structured upon altogether erroneous assumptions. In this connection, the gravest continuing misrepresentation […]

Herbert Zweibon Israel’s current behavior in Gaza brings to mind Albert Einstein’s much quoted aphorism: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Prior to Israel’s “disengagement’ from Gaza in 2005, there was a broad public belief, fed by media, academics and politicians, that the Jewish […]

To the Right – Anti-Insensitivity Crusader Shulamit Dotan Freedom of speech in Israel just took another bullet. The Leftist First Amendment, under which anti-Israel leftists and Arabs are entitled to the protection of freedom of speech for everything they say but know one else is, made a comeback this week. The Israeli dual court system […]

A companion commentary on the previous Gaza article by a forcibly removed Israeli Gaza Resident, By Anita Tucker February 22, 2009 The present situation, as it has developed, absolutely justifies reconstructing the Gush Katif towns in southern and northern Gaza. I still live in a temporary caravilla site with no new town yet in sight. […]

By Yuri Leving Dalhousie News | Wednesday, February 25, 2009 [The following article is from Dal News, a campus paper for Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.) Monday, 10 a.m. A loud siren sounds on campus. You have 15 seconds to find a safe place. It takes 60 seconds to run from the Henry […]

Royal seal impressions were discovered in excavations of the Israel Antiquities Authority at Umm Tuba, in the southern hills of Jerusalem. A large building that dates to the time of the First and Second Temples, in which there was an amazing wealth of inscriptions, was discovered in a salvage excavation conducted by Zubair Adawi, on […]