BY STAN GOODENOUGH— In what was described as a crucial “UN test vote,” UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientif and Cultural Organization) voted Monday to grant full membership to the ‘State of Palestine.” The 107 nations voting in favor included South Africa, China, Russia, Brazil, India and France. Among the 14 votes against were the…
BY HAARETZ Amidst a flurry of recent reports regarding a possible Israeli attack against Iran, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have not already decided that Israel will conduct such a strike. “It does not take a genius to understand that in Israel in 2011 two people…
BY ELWOOD MCQUAID, JPOST— Israel has long been like the canary in the mineshaft. If the canary succumbs to the odorless, lethal gases of the depths below, the miners know it’s time to get out of the mine. Anti-Semitic militancy, like the canary in the mine, warns the rest of the world of what lies…
BY VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— No, the terror will continue so long as Israel and the IDF merely retaliates against each and every separate Muslim Arab crime against the Jewish state’s civilian population. As one person, commenting on a blog, stated: “Israel’s taking out a few rocket launchers is like giving aspirin for cancer.…