By Nadav Shragai, Israel Hayom— Two weeks after the 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the eviction and destruction of the settlements in Gush Katif, then-Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert informed then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he intended to present then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with the notion that the disengagement from Gaza…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel Blog— The longer we live, the more reflective every Tisha B’Av gets. It is a natural development of course, on a border of cliche: the more one knows, the more one reflects. Tisha B’Av, the 9th of Av in Hebrew calendar, is so special day for Jewish people who…
By Michael Freund, JPost— Fifteen years ago today on the Hebrew calendar, on the 10th day of Av, Israel committed one of the gravest self-inflicted catastrophes since the founding of the state in 1948. Hiding behind the harmless-sounding euphemism of “disengagement,” the government of prime minister Ariel Sharon revved up the bulldozers and utterly destroyed…
By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” 1. Remembrance breeds deliverance, while forgetfulness feeds oblivion. According to a legend, Napoleon heard lamentations emanating from a synagogue, while walking one night in the streets of Paris. When told that the wailing commemorated the 586 BCE destruction of the First Jewish Temple in Jerusalem…
By Khaled Abu Toameh, Gatestone Institute— Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are angry again — this time, they claim, because they have been offered billions of dollars to improve their living conditions and build a new and strong economy. Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Palestinian Hamas terror group ruling the Gaza Strip, hinted that the…
By Amy Zewe— The issue of apartheid in South Africa is a painful history that just about the entire civilized world condemned during its application and all rightfully celebrated when it was defeated. Desmond Tutu was a just hero in combating this unjust practice that was as clear an example systemic racism against people with…
Recently I have had several meetings and exchange of vantage points with Christians, Jews, folks in Israel, folks in rural America, folks in Europe, and folks in North American Cities. Antisemitism has clearly been a problem for millennia and I have been reporting on alarming trends for nearly 10 years. And yet the recent…
By Israel Hayom— Jordan would look “positively” on the creation of a binational state that guarantees equal rights to Israelis and Palestinians if Israel’s proposed sovereignty of the Jordan Valley and settlements in Judea and Samaria closes the door on a two-state solution, Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz said Tuesday. In the wake of Israel’s…
By Caroline Glick, Jpost— When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Teheran in 2016, most observers dismissed the significance of the move. The notion that Beijing would wreck its relations with America, the largest economy and most powerful global superpower, in favor of an alliance with Iran, the world’s greatest state sponsor of terror was, on…
By Majid Rafizadeh, Gatestone Institute— While Iran’s ruling mullahs have been celebrating their rewards from the nuclear deal — which, by the way, Iran never signed — according to its terms, the arms embargo against the Islamic Republic is scheduled to be lifted on October 18, 2020. On June 30, 2020, U.S. Secretary of State…