by Nefesh B’Nefesh Two-hundred thirty-four new Israeli immigrants – including a record-breaking 85 young adults who have committed to joining the IDF – were welcomed at Ben-Gurion Airport on Tuesday by Nefesh B’Nefesh and the Jewish Agency. President Shimon Peres warmly greeted the olim as they disembarked from their 12-hour aliya flight from New York,…
Detailsby Robert Spencer, Front Page Magazine On Tuesday morning, the New York City Landmarks Commission, as expected, voted unanimously to deny landmark status to 45 Park Place, thus clearing the way for the demolition of the building currently there and the construction of the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque at Ground Zero. The Commission swept aside calls…
Detailsposted on The National Post What follows is an edited version of a speech delivered by historian Andrew Roberts to the Friends of Israel Initiative in the British House of Commons on July 19. From Morocco to Afghanistan, from the Caspian Sea to Aden, the 5.25 million square miles of territory belonging to members of the…
Detailsby Victor Sharpe To quote the old proverb: “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck.” So it is with Islam. There is no radical Islam, no hijacked Islam, no corrupted Islam, no extreme Islam and no moderate Islam: There is simply Islam. Listening…
Detailsby Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Late in July, a Hollywood honcho uncorks a blast of anti-Semitic bile, the sort of malignant stereotype about Jews one might expect from David Duke or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Is that newsworthy? It certainly was in 2006, when Mel Gibson, arrested in Malibu for drunken driving, demanded to know whether the arresting…
Detailsby Aaron Klein, Worldnetdaily The Israel Defense Forces says it believes allies of the Hezbollah terrorist organization today started a series of clashes along Israel’s northern border, resulting in the deaths of at least three Lebanese soldiers and a Lebanese journalist. Sources in the IDF told Worldnetdaily they fear Hezbollah may be trying to create…
Detailsby Jerusalem Post Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak responded Tuesday to news of the fatal northern border clashes between the IDF and the Lebanese army, in which an IDF soldier and 4 Lebanese were killed. “I hold the Lebanese government directly responsible for this provocation,” Netanyahu said. He added that Israel…
Detailsby Haaretz One Israeli officer was killed during clashes between Israel and the Lebanese army along the border on Tuesday. 45-year-old Lt. Col. Dov Harari, from Netanya, was a reserves battalion commander in the engineering corps. Another Israeli officer sustained severe wounds and has been admitted to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. He is in…
Detailsby Thomas A. Marks, inFocus Quarterly Israel’s recent tussle with the Turkish-facilitated effort to break the quarantine of Hamas in Gaza unleashed powerful forces. This is a setback for all concerned, including the U.S. In another sense, though, the episode has been useful, for it serves to highlight the central role lawfare now plays in…
Detailsby Caroline B. Glick, Jerusalem Post The Israeli Left is on a collision course with the Obama administration. It is reportedly trying to undermine negotiations between the Netanyahu government and Fatah. The Obama administration is earnestly seeking to initiate them. According to an unnamed eyewitness interviewed by Israel Radio, during a July 8 meeting between…
Detailsby Frank Gaffney Last week, a tectonic shift took place in the firmament of the War of Ideas. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich directly and forcefully took on Shariah, the totalitarian theo-political-military program of authoritative Islam that its adherents seek to impose on the entire world. As he noted, the United States is squarely in…
DetailsDear Prime Minister Netanyahu, I am writing to express my deep concern regarding the Temple Mount. As you know, the Temple Mount is the holiest site in the world for the Jewish people, yet the Muslim authorities, aided by Israel Police, systematically deny the right of religious expression on the Mount to all non-Moslems. On…
Detailsby David Isaac, shmuelkatz.com Recently declassified White House transcripts (featured in an editorial in the Israeli daily Haaretz) show former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger blaming Israel for the problems in the region, accusing Israel of being “deliberately provocative” and attempting “to create maximum commotion in the Middle East.” In the newly released documents…
Detailsby Associated Press Israel’s prime minister has informed U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon that Israel will take part in a U.N. investigation of the deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, a government spokesman said Monday. The panel will be set up by Ban, who has been pressing Israel to cooperate with the investigation. “Today, Israel…
DetailsAll you need to know about the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Movement.
