Radical Islam will not prevail against Israel

By EARL COX, JPOST— Not all ideologies are created equal. In the past few weeks, since the terrorist group, ISIS, (The jihadist terror group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) arose and initiated its murderous rampage across Iraq, the internet is furiously spewing out scene after scene, picture after picture, and headline after headline of…

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Reasserting Israel’s deterrent posture

BY MICHAEL FREUND— The violence that has swept across Israel over the past week, ranging from rock-throwing to rioting to rockets, underscores the increasingly dangerous erosion that has taken place in the Jewish state’s deterrent posture. Simultaneously, Israel now finds itself under assault from both Hamas terrorists in Gaza and many of its own Arab…

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One of six Jewish nationalists arrested confesses to revenge killing of Arab teen

By DANIEL EISENBUD, JPOST— Four days after the alleged revenge killing of Palestinian teen Muhammad Abu Khdeir convulsed the nation, one of the six unidentified Jewish extremists arrested early Sunday morning in the brutal murder confessed to the crime. According to numerous sources, the unidentified suspects made the confession during questioning by Shin Bet security…

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Weekend riots raise concerns of renewed intifada

BY ISRAEL HAYOM— Officials in the Public Security Ministry may be avoiding the concept “third Intifada,” but it would appear as though this is the first time in many years that Israel has gotten this close to an all-out eruption among Arab citizens living inside the country’s pre-1967 borders. The disturbances in east Jerusalem spread…

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Arabs drag Jews from cars and beat them

BY ISRAEL TODAY— Israel is burning at the moment, and most of the international media is focused either on suspected acts of Jewish violence or is reporting very vaguely on ongoing Arab riots. What’s being all but ignored are some very serious attacks against Israeli Jews for the crime of being Jewish. As the Arab…

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ISIS Already in Gaza Strip

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— Despite denials by Hamas, there is growing evidence that the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — also known as “The Islamic State” — has begun operating in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian Authority and Israeli security sources are convinced that followers of ISIS in the Gaza Strip are…

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This week’s prayer points

Currently, the weather in Israel is hot, but the political, emotional, and spiritual climates in the Land are much hotter than the natural temperatures. The atmosphere and the hearts of the people have been seriously altered by the murder of the three young Jewish teens. Today, Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “Our hearts are hurting and…

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What good can come from waiting to destroy Hamas?

By TED BELMAN, ISRAPUNDIT— The Cabinet met last night after learning of the deaths of Fraenkel, Shaar, and Yifrach. According to a TOI report: Unconfirmed reports from the cabinet meeting suggested that demands by more hawkish ministers for a “game-changing” response to the killings were likely to be rejected. Netanyahu met both before and after…

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Sderot children’s miraculous escape from rocket

By ISRAEL TODAY— As 13 more rockets slammed into Southern Israel overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning from Gaza, a children’s day-camp suffered a direct hit. The rocket penetrated the apartment building in which housed the children’s day-camp but miraculously failed to explode saving the children’s lives. This was one of 3 rockets which scored direct…

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Three brothers’ miracle

By Inna-Rina Rogatchi— The Jewish nation’ appearance and sustain during six millennia is a miracle. The Jewish history during this span of time and despite repeated methodical annihilation efforts is a miracle. There is no single Jewish life without a miracle. Miracle is an essential part of our belief; it is a gem of Jewish…

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I wish I’d said that

“The rearticulation of Christian attitudes toward Judaism and the determination to end the teaching of contempt toward the Jewish religion already constitute one of the great moral cleansing revolutions of all time – in any religion.” —Rabbi Irving Greenburg,  For the Sake of Heaven and Earth

The time has come for America to stand up

By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel were teenagers. They were abducted and brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists from Hamas, a partner in the Palestinian Authority’s unity government, and a terrorist organization dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people. The teens’ abduction and murder was supported by Palestinian…

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Time For The Gaza First Plan

By DAVID RUBIN— For eighteen days, I have been calling for strong offensive action against the terrorists of the Palestinian Authority – both Hamas and Fatah – as the best way to find the teenage hostages and to deter future kidnappings and other terrorist attacks. Now that the boys have been found dead, the justification…

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