Wish I’d said that
“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!”—Former Prime Minister Golda Meir
Rouhani: Jerusalem Should be Liberated from Israel
By ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ 7— Iran’s President, Hassan Rouhani, on Wednesday said that Jerusalem should “be liberated from the yoke of Israel.” The comments were made during a meeting in Tehran between Rouhani and the Speaker or the Palestinian Authority (PA) parliament, Salim Zanoun, and were reported by the semi-official Fars news agency. During the…
Original thinking: No going back
By BARRY SHAW, JPOST— You know what the one major problem would be should Israel foolishly agree to surrender territory to an aggressive new Palestinian state? There is no going back. The world will never allow Israel to reconquer any territory. Why should Israel give in to international pressure without a guaranteed right to regain…
Video: A rare glimpse inside the domb of the rock
The Temple Mount, the heart of the Israeli Arab conflict. Cameras had the rare opportunity to film the interior of the Domb of the Rock. Moslems throughout the world relate to the shrine as the symbol of the pan Islamic struggle against Israel. They deny any Jewish links to the site, but the archeological artifacts…
Tea with neo-Nazis, the risky blindness of Europe
By DR. INNA ROGATCHI, ROGATCHI FOUNDATION— The most worrisome and largely overseen factor of the ongoing Ukrainian tragedy, to me, is the mighty presence among the opposition hard-core militants from ultra-right nationalistic parties and movements there. The threat which is posed by those forces shall be not under-estimated, especially in the context of rapidly rising…
Little worms at Vienna
By STAN GOODENOUGH, JERUSALEM WATCHMAN— “Our enemies are little worms. I saw them at Munich.” – Adolf Hitler, after the Western Powers wilted before his aggressive adamancy at Munich. Instead of sitting like an equal alongside European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Margeret Ashton in Vienna, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Muhammed Zarif should be being…
A Response to “Zionism Unsettled”
By SUSAN MICHAEL, ICEJ-USA — A disturbing study guide entitled “Zionism Unsettled” has been published by an arm of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) The publication is filled with distorted facts and a historical narrative so extreme that some Jewish groups are calling it “hate speech.” It vilifies Israel and Zionism while ignoring Palestinian terrorism, calls…
Netanyahu: Israel boycotters are anti-Semites
By ISRAEL HAYOM— In the past, anti-Semites boycotted Jewish businesses and today they call for the boycott of the Jewish state, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu • Finance Minister Yair Lapid: Lack of progress in peace talks would endanger stability of coalition. European calls for a boycott of Israel are “an outrage,” Prime Minister Benjamin…
The BDS movement is 21st century anti-Semitism,
By SAM SOKOL, JPOST — Jewish leader says organizing a mass boycott of Israel, as civilians are massacred next door in Syria, is explicit anti-Semitism. European leaders need to take a tougher stand against the rise of the nationalist Right, the leader of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said on Monday.Speaking…
The Nuclear Option is on the Table
By DR. JOSEPH FRAGER, ARUTZ7 — The Obama administration’s soft approach to Iran’s nuclear program may have done more than simply making a conventional strike more likely. President Obama has had a constant refrain when it comes to Iran – “I’m keeping all options on the table”. The likelihood of President Obama using any kind…