By GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced early elections on Tuesday evening, saying they must be held “as soon as possible.” In a televised press conference, Netanyahu said that following meetings with coalition partners earlier in the day, he had come to the conclusion that the current Knesset would not be possible to…
Torah: Genesis 1:1 — 6:8, “B’ resheet” (In the beginning …) Haftorah: Isaiah 43:5 — 43:10 New Testament: Hebrews 9:11 — 14 Gospel: John 1:1 — 5, “B’ resheet hayah hadaber,” (In the beginning was the Word …)
By YITZHAK BENHORIN, YNET— Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney assailed President Barack Obama’s foreign policy in a speech Monday, saying the risk of conflict in the Middle East has grown under the president’s leadership. With his speech at the Virginia Military Institute, Romney hoped to undo a string of foreign policy stumbles, taking aim at…
By JOSEPH PUDER, FRONTPAGMAG— The U.S., along with the European Union and Israel, considers the Palestinian Hamas regime ensconced in Gaza a terrorist organization primarily because of its use of suicide bombers and its covenant which vows to replace Israel with a Palestinian Islamist state by force of arms. Hamas refuses to recognize Israel’s right…
By DANIEL PIPES— Mitt Romney gave a generally fine speech today on the Middle East. Sensibly, he criticized the Obama administration for its Benghazi shenanigans, for the “daylight” with Israel, fecklessness vis-à-vis Tehran, and the cuts in military spending. Very justifiably, he called it “time to change course in the Middle East.” But I worry…
By GIULIO MEOTTI, ARUTZ 7— Warning against wearing a prayer shawl has become a common practice in Europe, where today Jews hide their own identity and sidle along the walls like snakes. Can Israel accept that this happens on Judaism’s most holy site, the Temple Mount? Excepting that of Likud faction leader Moshe Feiglin, their…
By YAAKOV LAPPIN, GATESTONE— As Israel’s military watches Syrian sovereignty crumble and scores of militant groups form in the resulting vacuum, it is on alert for jihadi terrorist attacks from Syria. The working assumption in Israeli defense circles is that sooner or later, Assad will fall, and Israel will have to deal with whatever will…
By ISRAEL HAYOM-— Several Israeli warplanes violated Lebanon’s airspace Sunday, according to Lebanese media outlets, flying over the country’s southern region and setting off sonic booms in a possible response to Saturday’s violation of Israeli airspace by an unmanned drone which Israel has speculated was launched by Hezbollah. Residents in the eastern area of south…
By CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s legal term in office expired nearly four years ago. But his supporters don’t care. In Israel, Washington and throughout the world, Abbas’s supporters extol the authoritarian as a great moderate. In 2002, desperately searching for a face for the Palestinians that wasn’t Yassir Arafat’s face, the…
By MEIR OHAYON, YNET— A man suffered fatal gunshot injuries Friday after a US national opened fire inside the lobby of Leonardo Club Hotel in Eilat. The gunman, who was fired from his job on Thursday, is believed to have arrived at the hotel to avenge his dismissal, according to the police. The victim has…