BY ASAF ROMIROWSKY, INFOCUS— Sixty-two years after the establishment of the state of Israel, 30 years after the Camp David Accords, and almost 20 years after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, Israel remains isolated and friendless in a hostile Middle East. While the U.S. debate over the costs…
DetailsToldot Yisrael presents the stories of volunteers from around the world who came in 1948 to help build and defend the State of Israel. “You came to us when we needed you most, during those difficult, uncertain days in our War of Independence. You gave us not only your experience, but your lives as well. The people…
DetailsBY DENNIS PRAGER— I assume that the type of person who reads columns such as this one has wondered at one time or another why, for thousands of years, there has been so much attention paid to Jews and why, today, to Israel, the one Jewish state. But how do most people explain this preoccupation?…
DetailsBY ARYEH BEN HAYIM, ARUTZ 7— King Abdullah of Jordan, preceding Binyamin Netanyahu to Washington, meets today with U.S. President Barack Obama after having met yesterday at the State Department, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The Jordanian monarch was obviously focused on disputing two major Israeli arguments, namely, that the “Arab Spring” demonstrates that…
DetailsBY DENNIS PRAGER— I assume that the type of person who reads columns such as this one has wondered at one time or another why, for thousands of years, there has been so much attention paid to Jews and why, today, to Israel, the one Jewish state. But how do most people explain this preoccupation?…
DetailsBY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU, ARUTZ 7— Hundreds of Arabs rioted throughout Israel the past three days in “Nakba Day” protests against the re-establishment of Israel. A video of a massive anti-Israel rally at the Kalandia checkpoint north of Jerusalem shows Arabs hooting at Israeli security forces. At the security fence near the Arab villages of Bil’in…
DetailsFour people were killed and dozens were hurt on Israel’s northern border Sunday after Syrian infiltrators marking ‘Nakba Day’ trampled the border fence and were shot by IDF forces. Magen David Adom emergency services said 13 people were lightly wounded on Israel’s side of the border near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, including 10…
DetailsBY JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the events of Nakba Day on Sunday, particualrly attempts to infiltrate Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, saying “we are determined to defend our borders.” Netanyahu stated that he instructed the IDF to act with restraint, but to stop all attempts at infiltration and challenges…
DetailsBY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Netanyahu doesn’t have to give in. He can stick to his guns and defend the country. It is hard to believe, but it appears that in the wake of the Palestinian unity deal that brings Hamas, the genocidal, al-Qaida-aligned, local franchise of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, into a partnership with Fatah,…
DetailsBY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— As Palestinian Authority Arabs prepare public demonstrations to mark the ‘Nakba Day’ (literally the “catastrophe”, which is how they characterize the Gregorian date of the establishment of the State of Israel) on Sunday, Jews in Israel are planning a Zionist response to the planned activities. After all, they say, had…
DetailsBY YNET REPORTS— Independence Day over, ‘Nakba Day’ looming: Israel’s defense establishment is preparing for a possibly turbulent weekend as Palestinians mark what they view as the disaster inherent in Israel’s establishment. Security officials have been assessing the volatile situation in the past week, and as of Wednesday the IDF will be boosting its deployment…
DetailsThink on this: “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your your sins may be wiped out, that the times of refreshing my come from the Lord, and that he may send the Messiah, who has been appointed for you — even Jesus. He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God…
DetailsBY TZODIA HIRSCHFELD, YNET— Almost every house in South Korea has a translated Talmud. Moreover, the South Koreans have made the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish civil and religious law part of their school curriculum’s compulsory literature. But unlike Israel, even Korean mothers study it and read from it to their young children.…
DetailsBY HILLEL FENDEL, ARUTZ 7— It turns out that the Fatah movement realizes that the international treaty signed at San Remo in 1920 grants internationally-accepted Jewish national rights in the Holy Land. The WAFA news agency of the Palestinian Authority recently reported that Fatah issued a 25th anniversary statement proclaiming that the San Remo Conference…
DetailsBY LEE SMITH, TABLETMAG.COM— With Osama Bin Laden now in the bag, a triumphant President Barack Obama will be searching for new promises to keep—like clinching the comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace treaty that he promised the world during his first two years in office. And since any lasting peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians must…
Detailsby Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs THE LAND Israel, land of the Bible and the historic homeland of the Jewish people, is situated in the Middle East, along the eastern coastline of the Mediterranean Sea, and forms part of a land bridge linking three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe. In this land, the Jewish people…
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