1. Irrespective of the global economic meltdown, the war on Palestinian terrorism, the Iranian threat, regional instability and political uncertainty, Standard & Poor (S&P) has left Israel’s credit rating unchanged at A and the country forecast rating [has been sustained] as “stable.” The rating was approved in all three criteria: Shekel debt, foreign currency debt […]

Feb. 12, 2009 Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Who won the election on Tuesday night and what do the results tell us about the composition of the next government? Israeli voters decided two things on Tuesday. First, they decided that they want the political right to lead the country. Second, leftist voters decided that […]

by Melanie Philips, Spectator.co.uk February 6, 2009 I am hearing ever more alarming accounts of the deepening attrition against British Jews in the wake of the incitement against Israel provoked by the war in Gaza. In addition to the record number of attacks upon Jewish individuals and institutions and murderous incitement displayed on the anti-Israel […]

By Editorial Board We were dismayed that President Obama granted his first interview upon taking office to Al Arabiya, an Arabic-language news network based in Dubai. Though we have questions about the message that choice inevitably sent, it was what he said that raised some red flags. Indeed, President Bush regularly submitted to interviews with […]

By Andrew C. McCarthy The war of aggression waged by Hamas, against which Israel has commenced a robust response, must not be seen in a vacuum. Hamas is an agent of radical Islam’s revolutionary jihad. Israel, the “little Satan,” is a proxy of Western modernity. The conflict in Gaza is merely the latest round: a […]

Feb. 9, 2009 THE JERUSALEM POST As we go to the polls today, the world around us is quickly changing in new and distressing ways. The challenges the international system will present the government we elect will be harsher, more complicated and more dangerous than the ones its predecessors have faced. Bluntly stated, the world […]

Louis Rene Beres To be sure, it is time to call all things by their correct names. Just as Israel seeks to bring great beauty into the world, its sanguinary Islamist enemies thrive reciprocally upon violence and horror. Contrary to what is generally reported in the media, there is absolutely nothing basically political or purposeful […]

Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Feb. 6, 2009 www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304705247&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull Tuesday’s general elections will officially end the briefest and most nonchalant electoral season Israel has ever experienced. Regrettably, the importance of these elections is inversely proportional to their lack of intensity. These are the most fateful elections Israel has ever had. The events of the […]

“Remarkably, what we did not get was any assistance from the government of Israel, nor any sense of a joint effort to help get Jonathan Pollard out.” Shevat 11, 5769, 05 February 09 12:19by Farley Weiss www.israelnationalnews.com/SendMail.aspx?print=print&type=1&item=8559 (IsraelNN.com) Jonathan Pollard is right to blame Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni especially for the failure to obtain […]

First Introduced by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, March 28, 2002 February 4, 2009 | Eli E. Hertz Update What Arab countries failed to achieve by use of force during the past 60 years, they hope to achieve by this renewed Saudi ‘Peace Initiative’: Israel to withdraw to the non-secure borders that existed prior […]