By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— This past Friday, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired a rocket into southern Israel without any provocation, setting off air-raid sirens and rekindling fears of a return to this past summer’s hostilities. Indeed, although barely four months have passed since the end of Operation Protective Edge, Hamas is said to be actively…
By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— The November 24, 2014 deadline has come and gone. As in the once very popular game of Monopoly, Iran drew another ‘get out of jail free’ card and the right to ‘return to Go’ – to go ahead with seven more months of continuing nuclear advancement. That’s what US Secretary…
“All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.”– Edmund Burke
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH and HERB KEINON, JPOST— As the Palestinian Authority said Sunday it planned to move forward to secure support for the draft resolution it presented the UN Security Council last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would “vigorously oppose it” and not accept any “diktat.” Netanyahu, speaking at a Hanukka candle-lighting…
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, GATESTONE— European parliaments that are rushing to recognize a Palestinian state are ignoring the fact that the Palestinians have been without a functioning parliament for the past seven years. The Palestinian parliament, known as the Palestinian Legislative Council , has been paralyzed since 2007, when Hamas violently seized control over the…
By TED BELMAN, ARUTZ 7— An epic battle took place a week ago in Washington at the Saban Forum on the Middle East, Israel-US relations and the Arab-Israeli conflict. You probably never learned about it because American media virtually ignored it, although Arutz Sheva posted the entire battle. The battle occurred in a one hour…
By AHUVA BALOFSKY— Speaking at a pre-Christmas gathering of the Israeli Christian Recruitment Forum in Nazareth on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his appreciation for the soldiers who have enlisted in the Israeli army (IDF). Also in attendance were Deputy Minister Ofir Akunis, Mayor of Nazareth, Ali Sala and prominent Israeli Priest Father…
1: THE ADVANCING STEPS TO ESTABLISH A PALESTINIAN STATE WITHOUT ISRAEL’S INPUT OR APPROVAL Mahmoud Abbas is intending to present his unilateral draft resolution for Palestinian statehood to the UN Security Council as early as tomorrow. This draft resolution calls for the withdrawal (forced if necessary) of Israel from all of Judea and Samaria by…
By STANLEY REED and CLIFFORD KRAUSS, NY TIMES— The Israeli navy had detected smoky signs that a rocket might have been fired by Hamas from the shores of Gaza. As a voice over the loudspeaker warned to take cover, the crew raced up the metal stairs to a small gym that doubles as an air…
