The PLO's desperate defenders

BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— By most accounts, the Fatah-Hamas unity deal signing ceremony Wednesday was a grand affair. Hamas terror-chief Khaled Mashaal jetted in from Damascus. PLO/Fatah/Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas flew in from Ramallah. The ceremony was held under the auspices of the newly Muslim Brotherhood-friendly Egyptian intelligence services. UN representatives and Israeli Arab…

Prayers for Independence Day

A translation of the Al HaNissim prayer said in Conservative synagogues on Yom Ha’atzmaout: “We thank You for the heroism, for the triumphs, and for the miraculous deliverance of our ancestors, in other days and in our time.  In the days when Your children were returning to their borders, at the time of a people…

Holocaust Remembrance Day

“Our God is able to deliver us from the firey furnace,  but even if He does not….we will not serve your gods.”BY PAT MERCER HUTCHENS— When Lili Jacobs accidently discovered the Auschwitz Album at the close of WWII, the very first person she saw when she looked inside was Rabbi Naftali Zvi Weiss, the chief…

Israel's increasing vulnerability

BY JOHN BOLTON, WASHINGTON TIMES— Although Osama bin Laden’s well-deserved death has demonstrated America’s re- solve to vindicate our national security, the world is still far from safe. In the Middle East, optimistic predictions that authoritarian regimes would fall like dominoes, ushering in new democracies and greater prospects for peace, are rapidly disappearing. Not only…

The Hamas and al-Qaida Parallel

BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— With the demise of Osama bin Laden, Israel and the Western world can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After nearly a decade of dead ends and false leads, America finally succeeded in tracking down and eliminating al-Qaida’s charismatic and evil founder, setting a commendable example of counterterrorism at its best.…

Video: National Anthem Hatikva

The words to Israel’s national anthem Hatikva were written around 1878 by Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet.  Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia, put the lyrics to a folk melody from his home country.  In 1898, the Jewish newspaper in Israel (before the state was established) ran a competition for an official national anthem.  There were no winners from…