By: Giulio Meotti, Israel National News— In front of the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not only stare for forty seconds into the eyes of the world’s representatives, charging them with having kept silent in the face of Iran’s promise to destroy Israel. Netanyahu also pulled out a book in Farsi.…
By: Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Ph.D, Middle East Forum— Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has drawn criticism for comments about the role of al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem played in conceiving and perpetrating the Holocaust. Indeed, leading Nazi aides testified that al-Husaini was one of the instigators of the genocide. In his 1999 autobiography, a senior Nazi…
By: Lea Speyer, Breaking Israel News— Amid international outcry, Israel has claimed a rare victory at the United Nations on Wednesday after the Palestinian delegation dropped its bid that the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declare the Western Wall a Muslim holy site. The resolution, which was submitted on behalf of the…
By: Tsvi Sadan, Israel Today— The “Palestine” maps shown in the newsroom of MSNBC on October 17 represented what the pro-Palestine crowd believes to be the “disappearing Palestine.” These maps, often seen at “free Gaza” demonstrations, are a gutter tactic aimed at manipulating the masses by fictitious visual aids. Following protests, MSNBC reluctantly apologized by saying…
By: Ron Jager— Indifference cannot under any circumstances be seen as acceptable behavior of political leaders. Even great leaders can fall prey to the seductive effect of indifference and perceive the physical existence and suffering of their own countrymen in acceptable terms. Not since the days of the second “intifada”, when all of Israel become…
