BY JONATHAN SCHANZER AND DAVID BARNETT, NATIONAL INTEREST— Israeli envoy Isaac Molho met Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat recently for the third time in the new year. The talks, widely praised across the international community, have been billed as a much-needed jumpstart for negotiations between the two sides. But they are actually a distraction from the…
DetailsBY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Earlier this week, British Prime Minister David Cameron took a highly unusual step. Meeting with visiting PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of Her Majesty’s Government departed from the usual diplomatic blather and went out of his way to underline his insistence on a two- state solution for the Israel- Palestinian…
DetailsBY JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu reiterated on Wednesday that the root cause of the Israeli Palestinian conflict is “the persistent (Palestinian) refusal to accept a Jewish state within any boundaries.” Speaking at a synagogue in the Netherlands during a visit to the country, the prime minister recalled that Israel places no preconditions on the…
DetailsBY DANIEL GREENFIELD, SULTAN KNISH— After having exhausted the indignant possibilities of protesting the extinction of whales, pelicans and polar bears, the left has found a new endangered species to be outraged about. Iranian nuclear scientists. It’s one thing to hug a polar bear or a tree, but it’s another to embrace an Iranian nuclear…
DetailsTorah: Exodus 6:2–9:35 “Va’era” (And he appeared …) Haftorah: Ezekiel 28:25 — 29:21 New Testament: Romans 9:14 — 33 Gospel: John 8:48 — 59 “Ha Shivu” (They answered … )
DetailsBY DEBKAFILE— debkafile’s sources disclose exclusively that, contrary to recent reports published in Washington, Jerusalem – and this site too – it was Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, not the Obama administration, who decided to call off the biggest ever joint US-Israeli military exercise Austere Challenge 12 scheduled for April 2012. Washington was taken aback…
DetailsBY YONATAN SREDNI, ARUTZ 7— My sister is beside herself. She and her Israeli husband and kids had moved from Israel to northern California just over a year ago. Now her kids attend the same Jewish day school she and I had gone to when we grew up there nearly three decades ago. “It’s Martin…
DetailsBY DAN WILLIAMS, REUTERs— A senior Israeli official voiced disappointment in the Obama administration on Sunday, saying “election-year considerations” lay behind its caution over tough Iran sanctions sought by U.S. legislators. While Washington has been talking tougher about Iran’s nuclear work and threat to block oil export routes out of the Gulf if hit with…
DetailsIn response to yesterday’s Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) video-bulletin which showed the PA Mufti’s speech that Muslims’ destiny is to kill Jews, YouTube has frozen PMW’s account. All PMW videos are working except this one but the account is frozen and PMW cannot upload new videos for the next two weeks. We have uploaded the…
DetailsBY RIVKA BOROCHOV, UNITED WITH ISRAEL— When the Biblical Joseph predicted that Egypt would suffer a major famine thousands of years ago, he told the Pharaoh to store grain for seven years. His foresight kept the people in the region from starvation. Prof. Shlomo Navarro, an Israeli environmental food specialist, is taking the same approach…
DetailsThis year, 2012, will be the most important year in Israel’s history. The world will never be the same again. With revolutions erupting across the Middle East, elections in the United States of America and the European economy in turmoil, NOW IS THE TIME to stand with Israel. Make a resolution to support The Land…
DetailsBY SHIRI HADAR, YNET— The wave of anti-Israeli criticism sweeping across many countries, including in North America, has prompted the Jewish Agency to significantly increase the number of Shlichim (emissaries) abroad. These emissaries, who engage in advocacy for the State of Israel, have been a central part of the Jewish Agency’s vision during the past…
DetailsBY BARRY RUBIN, GLORIA— Coverage of the region-wide upheaval known as the “Arab Spring” would make it seem that terrorism, especially Islamist terrorism, is pretty much as dead as are its thousands of victims. After all, if the protest demonstration and balloting have proven able to resolve grievances then who needs to blow people up?…
DetailsBY WND— A report that Iran is about a year away from having the capability to build a nuclear bomb may be too optimistic, contended John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “I worry the publicly available information is giving only a very small picture and that Iran is actually even much further…
DetailsBY RICHARD BOOKER, PART 2 of MYTHOMANIACS— In an article entitled, “The Lesson of Palestine,” printed in the Middle East Journal, October 1949, Arab activist, Musa Alami, wrote, “How can people struggle for their nation, when most of them do not know the meaning of the word? … The people are in great need of…
DetailsIt took 2,000 years, but the Dead Sea Scrolls have finally entered the digital age. As of this fall, the scrolls are available online thanks to a partnership between Google and Israel’s national museum. Five of the most important scrolls can be seen in high-resolution on the internet. Users can zoom in and out, translate…
DetailsThink on this! “O God do not keep silent. Be not quiet O God, be not still. See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads. With cunning they conspire against your people. They plot against those you cherish. Come they say let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name…
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