By Lahav Harkov, JPost— “Palestine” is a borrowed term, MK Anat Berko (Likud) said in the Knesset Wednesday, sparking an uproar. “Palestine – There isn’t even a ‘p’ in Arabic, so it’s a borrowed term that’s worth analyzing,” Berko said in a debate on the two-state solution. “But there is a Palestinian Authority next to…
By David Bedein, Israel Behind the News— A few months ago, Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg launched a modest effort to galvanize Jewish support for Donald Trump. Rabbi Rosenberg maintained that his instincts were that Trump would make a strong President who would be both fair and friendly to Israel. Issuing numerous press releases under the…
By Raphael Poch, Israel National News— As the New Hampshire primaries get underway today (Feb. 9th) in the United States, former Senator Joseph Lieberman told Israeli Army Radio that “no matter who becomes president the relationship between Israel and the United States will improve.” “When we go back and listen to President Barack Obama’s…
By DEBKAFILE— US President Barack Obama has retracted on his pledge of an extra defense package to compensate Israel for the damage caused its security by the nuclear deal concluded with Iran last year. This flat refusal, reported here by DEBKAfile’s Washington sources, confronted Israeli officials when they met last week with heads of the…
This is Israel’s memorial to 9/11. It is called the 9/11 Living Memorial Plaza. Completed in 2009 for $2 million, it sits on 5 acres of hillside, 20 miles from the center of Jerusalem. The memorial is a 30-foot, bronze American flag. It forms the shape of a flame to commemorate the flames of the Twin Towers. The base of…
By Israel Today Staff, Israel Today— A large number of Israelis remain supporters of Hillary Clinton in her bid to become the next president of the USA, despite earlier revelations of her disdain for their own leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But the latest release of emails from Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State suggest…
By Thomas Mcardle, Investors.com— BD warned over a year and a half ago that President Obama wasn’t about to spend his post-presidency building houses, like Jimmy Carter, but that there were discernible signs that he would seek to become secretary-general of the United Nations. In the West Point speech he gave in May 2014, IBD…
By Caroline Glick, JPost— Over the past several weeks, we have learned that the Obama administration believes it is at war with Israel. The war is not a shooting war, but a political war. Its goal is to bring the government to its knees to the point where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loses power or…
By YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remembers well just how US President Barack Obama brushed aside Israeli objections and went ahead with the P5+1 nuclear agreement with Iran. Now, Netanyahu is reportedly planning some personal payback. According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida, Netanyahu will make common cause with moderate Arab governments…
By Ronen Bergman— BERLIN – We met on Wednesday in a cafe in Berlin, near the Brandenburg Gate, where preparations were underway for the fireworks display on New Year’s Eve. I can’t reveal his real name, so in this story I will call him “Robert.” He’s a former senior official in the American intelligence community,…