BY NICOLE JANSEZIAN, TRAVELUJAH— Israel’s cobblestone streets, landmark churches, Roman amphitheaters and ancient cisterns may be enticing to many tourists, but can be daunting to someone in a wheelchair. This prospect, however, did not dissuade Rick Huntress and a group of 17 – five of whom were in wheelchairs – from visiting the Holy Land.…
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— In the aftermath of US President Barack Obama’s May 19 speech on the Middle East, his supporters argued that the policy toward Israel and the Palestinians that Obama outlined in that speech was not anti-Israel. As they presented it, Obama’s assertion that peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians must be…
BY BOAZ FYLER, YNETNEWS— The war on terror must not be delayed by “even one day,” Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky said Monday at a ceremony marking 10 years to the Dolphinarium discotheque bombing. The Tel Aviv terror attack claimed the lives of 21 people, almost all of them teenagers, after a suicide bomber detonated…
BY VICTOR SHARPE, CANADA FREE PRESS— Jerusalem Unification Day has again been celebrated in Israel and throughout the world with the exception of that 7th century alternate universe: the Muslim world. It marks 44 years since the amazing and miraculous event took place when the Jewish people’s 3,000 year old capital city was restored to…
BY JPOST— Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday said that there is no way to stop the United Nations General Assembly from recognizing Palestinian statehood in September. In the General Assembly, he remarked, “it would be possible to get a resolution saying the world is flat,” speaking at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee…
BY BARRY RUBIN— In September, the leaves will start falling in the West. And so will the policies toward the Middle East. That month, Egypt will likely elect a radical and largely Islamist parliament. That parliament will then probably write a radical and largely Islamist constitution. The new government will follow a radical and at…
BY YAAKOV LAPIN, JPOST— The Israel Police are in the midst of preparing for the possibility of wide-scale rioting this September, when Palestinians are expected to unilaterally declare statehood, newly appointed police commissioner Insp.-Gen. Yochanan Danino said in a speech before the Israel Bar Association in Eilat on Sunday. “The Israel Police is currently preparing for…
BY JEFF JACOBY, BOSTON GLOBE— WHEN ALL WAS SAID AND DONE, much more was said than done during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s high-profile visit to Washington. But once all the words were spoken, what was left behind? For the better part of a week, Netanyahu and President Barack Obama engaged in a fraught pas…
