In West Bank, Ya’alon plugs ‘right to settle every part of the Land of Israel’

By Raoul Wootliff, Times of Israel— Days after joining political forces with Israel Resilience chair Benny Gantz, former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon outlined on Sunday his ideological opposition to a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, praising the settlement project in the West Bank and saying that the Jewish state “has a right to every…

US Democrats Try to Retain Pro-Israel Credentials, But Is It Already Too Late?

By Ryan Jones, Israel Today— American support for Israel used to very much be a bipartisan issue. Both Republicans and Democrats could credibly point to genuine concern for and backing of the Jewish state. But in recent decades, the Democrats’ pro-Israel credentials have been called into question, especially with Israel itself routinely criticizing former-US President…

Palestinian Member of Congress Plans her Tour to “Apartheid” Israel

By Arlene Bridges Samuels, Times of Israel— First-term Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has already shoved her stake into Capitol Hill’s virtual ground declaring her intention to lead her own congressional delegation to Israel’s disputed territories in biblical Judea and Samaria, otherwise called the West Bank. Like actress Bette Davis famously said in her 1950 movie…

The Day and the Memory

By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— There are people among us who believe that the commemorative events on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is a formality, in the best case, and ‘an utter hypocrisy’ in the opinions of few who refuse to co-hibit in their mind these annual international commemorations in the end of January…

Iran Demands Russian Protection From Israel in Syria

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz, Breaking Israel News— On Thursday, the head of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign-policy committee, Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, expressed anger on Thursday at Russia for not using their advanced S-300 anti-air defense system to protect Iranian military assets in Syria from the Israeli airstrikes that devastated them earlier in the week.…