by Matthew RJ Brodsky, American Thinker The recent border skirmish between Lebanon and Israel in which a senior Israeli officer, two Lebanese soldiers, and a journalist from the pro-Hezb’allah al-Akhbar newspaper were killed is the most significant clash between the two countries since the 2006 summer war. While at first glance this episode may…
Detailsby Anav Silverman, Frontpagmag.com When the Obama administration banned the terms Islamic extremism and jihad from US national security documents back on April 7, 2010, the United States began a new approach toward the war on terror. No longer would the ideological or religious elements that had driven the 9/11 attackers be emphasized. Any terms…
Detailsby Worldnetdaily Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah, have taken Lebanon hostage, using the country for political and military gain, charged Samy Gemayel, a Lebanese parliament member. “If Iran wants to escalate the situation in the region it will escalate in our country using Hezbollah’s weapons, using Hezbollah’s power in the region,” said Gemayel, speaking in…
Detailsby Sarah Honig, sarahhonig.com It’s almost surreal to witness the White House resident and his European counterparts fall all over themselves in recharged alacrity for the “two-state solution.” Do they even remotely believe their own words? Or do they just make obligatory sounds to satisfy the requisites of some bizarre rite? It’s a tad of…
DetailsLast week IDF soldiers were deliberately ambushed by Lebanese Armed Forces. The details of the provocation are now clear.
by Caroline Glick It wasn’t a US Army sniper who killed IDF Lt. Col. Dov Harari and seriously wounded Capt. Ezra Lakia on Tuesday. But the Lebanese Armed Forces sniper who shot them owes a great deal to the generous support the LAF has received from America. For the past five years, the LAF has…
DetailsThe Jerusalem Connection has added a brand new recipe section to our columns blog! All the recipes in B’tayavon Shelley collected during her time living and studying in Israel. She claims to have never left a Shabbat dinner without a new recipe in hand! If you are hankering for some comfort food—Mediterranean style—you have to…
Detailsby DEBKAfile By launching a cross-border sniper attack on Israeli forces Tuesday, Aug. 3, and provoking a major clash, the 9th Brigade of the Lebanese Army laid down a new fact of life in the Middle East: The next war against Israel will be fought – not by the Hizballah militia, but by the Lebanese…
Detailsby Earl Cox, Jerusalem Post Last month interviewer Larry King put the question to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on CNN: “You live in the center of a hostile world. Are you ever able to relax?” To which the Prime Minister replied: “Yes, Sir, I am. Every Saturday on our Sabbath, I have a day…
Detailsby Alan Dershowitz, Huffington Post It must be the summer heat but the moonbats seem to be loonier than ever when it comes to Israel and Jews. Oliver Stone urges us to see the positive side of Hitler and Ahmadinejad, while imitating his two heroes by railing against Jewish control of the media. (To his…
Detailsby 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…
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