BY JOSEPH KLEIN, NEWSREALBLOG— Hamas is now deliberately targeting Israeli school children with rocket attacks against clearly marked school buses. They know no shame, yet they continue to play the victim, pleading with the international community for protection from Israel’s reprisals. Terrorists in Gaza fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus on Thursday,…
BY GIL RONEN, ARUTZ SHEVA— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is considering plans to hand over more territory to the Palestinian Authority, according to the ultra-leftist Haaretz. The newspaper says that as part of the concessions Netanyahu is considering, “there will be a redeployment of IDF forces and more security control will be given to the…
BY JPOST— The Palestinian Authority is ready to govern a state of its own, according to a report published Tuesday by the office of UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Robert Serry, AFP reported. The report, which will be submitted to Palestinian donor nations at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, said that in…
BY TED BELMAN, ISRAPUNDIT— The diplomatic chapter of the coalition agreement asserts that “the government will work determinedly and regularly against terror groups threatening Israel and do everything needed in order to eradicate them. A strategic target for the State of Israel would be the toppling of Hamas’ rule in Gaza.” FM Leiberman intends to…
BY ISRAEL TODAY— Debunking accusations that it is keeping the Gaza Strip under seige, the Israeli army on Monday published figures regarding the enormous amount of material it permitted to enter Gaza during March, despite escalating terrorist missile fire. Hamas and its allied terror groups fired more than 90 missiles and mortar shells at communities…
BY HANAN GREENBERG, YNETNEWS— Senior Hamas member Taysir Saliman Abu-Saname, killed by the IDF in a southern Gaza Strip strike early Satruday, was involved among other things in Gilad Shalit’s abduction, IDF officials said. The sources said the Shalit family was informed of the news. Abu-Saname held several senior posts in Hamas’ military wing, Izz…
BY YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST— Two barrages of rockets were fired at the Eshkol Regional Council Saturday night, bringing the number of rockets launched into Israel from Gaza to over 50 since Saturday morning, police said. A rocket caused some damage to homes and struck a main water pipe in a kibbutz in the Shaa’r Hanegev…
BY DAVID LEV, ARUTZ7— Unrest continued Saturday in both Egypt and Syria, as protesters in both cities were killed by security forces in each country. Meanwhile, thousands of Egyptians rioted outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo over the IDF’s response to Hamas terror attacks, increasing concern in Jerusalem that the protests in the Arab world…
BY SETH MANDEL, FRONTPAGEMAG.COM— The revolutions in the Arab world that began earlier this year were noticeably low on anti-Jewish propaganda, leading many scholars to express the hope that the West had less to lose from the overthrow of men like Hosni Mubarak than previously thought. But if German scholar Matthias Küntzel is correct, one…
“By any standard of morality and justice, the case for Palestinan independence and statehood is far weaker than the case for the independence and statehood of numerous other people seeking autonomy over their lives. The occupation of Tibet by China has been longer and more brutal and less justified by protective or military considerations, and…