By Israel National News— Sovereignty Movement heads Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matars unveiled at the Jerusalem Conference this week a short original film surveying the five decades of conflict between Israel’s right and left. The conflict has prevailed in Israel since the Six Day War, when Israel won Judea, Samaria, and the Golan Heights. The…
BY AMOS YADLIN, ARI HEISTEIN, Foreign Policy— With the Syrian rebels on the run and the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gaining momentum, Iran is seeking to rewrite the “rules of the game” governing Israel’s actions in Syria. Last weekend’s clashes on Israel’s northern border occurred within this context. An Iranian drone breached Israeli…
By Liel Leibovitz, Tablet Magazine— This past Sunday, The New York Times treated its readers to another sad story straight out of Gaza. Here’s a representative sample: “’We are dead, but we have breath,’ said Zakia Abu Ajwa, 57, who now cooks greens normally fed to donkeys for her three small grandchildren.” How to account…
Ambassador Nikki Haley Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Staffan, for your briefing and for all of your efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Syria. The United States fully supports your initiative to bring the parties back to Geneva, and to start work on a new constitutional committee in accordance with…
Torah: Exodus 25:1 – 27:19, “Terumah” (Contribution … ) Haftorah: I Kings 5:6 – 6:13 New Testament; II Corinthians 9:1 – 15 Gospel: Matthew 5:33 – 37, “Shelo lehishva” (Do not swear …)
By Anna Ahronheim, JPOST— Israel will do everything necessary to prevent Iran from consolidating itself in Syria, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Wednesday. “Iran declared war on us. The highest echelons in Tehran want to erase the Zionist entity; they do not hide the fact that they want to wipe the State of Israel off…
By NOGA TARNOPOLSKY NABIH BULOS, LA TIMES— A drone incursion into Israel early Saturday spiraled into a major confrontation that included the downing of an Israeli fighter jet and an extensive attack on Iranian military assets in Syria — the first known time that Israel has used force against Iran. The attacks and counterattacks also…
By Deborah Danon, Breitbart— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is said to have warned Iran via European leaders in recent weeks that he would respond militarily to any provocation, an Israeli TV report said Sunday. Prior to Israel’s downing of an Iranian drone Saturday in the country’s north and the ensuing strikes in Syria, Netanyahu spoke…
By Israel Hayom— Since their dispersion, Jews who for centuries endured Christian and Muslim persecution, maintained spiritual (and in a few cases physical) links with their homeland, praying for their return to Zion and the advent of the Messiah. In the late 19th century, the Eastern European secular utopians who sought to escape persecution came…