BY ISRAEL TODAY— Debunking accusations that it is keeping the Gaza Strip under seige, the Israeli army on Monday published figures regarding the enormous amount of material it permitted to enter Gaza during March, despite escalating terrorist missile fire. Hamas and its allied terror groups fired more than 90 missiles and mortar shells at communities…
BY HANAN GREENBERG, YNETNEWS— Senior Hamas member Taysir Saliman Abu-Saname, killed by the IDF in a southern Gaza Strip strike early Satruday, was involved among other things in Gilad Shalit’s abduction, IDF officials said. The sources said the Shalit family was informed of the news. Abu-Saname held several senior posts in Hamas’ military wing, Izz…
BY YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST— Two barrages of rockets were fired at the Eshkol Regional Council Saturday night, bringing the number of rockets launched into Israel from Gaza to over 50 since Saturday morning, police said. A rocket caused some damage to homes and struck a main water pipe in a kibbutz in the Shaa’r Hanegev…
BY DAVID LEV, ARUTZ7— Unrest continued Saturday in both Egypt and Syria, as protesters in both cities were killed by security forces in each country. Meanwhile, thousands of Egyptians rioted outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo over the IDF’s response to Hamas terror attacks, increasing concern in Jerusalem that the protests in the Arab world…
BY SETH MANDEL, FRONTPAGEMAG.COM— The revolutions in the Arab world that began earlier this year were noticeably low on anti-Jewish propaganda, leading many scholars to express the hope that the West had less to lose from the overthrow of men like Hosni Mubarak than previously thought. But if German scholar Matthias Küntzel is correct, one…
“By any standard of morality and justice, the case for Palestinan independence and statehood is far weaker than the case for the independence and statehood of numerous other people seeking autonomy over their lives. The occupation of Tibet by China has been longer and more brutal and less justified by protective or military considerations, and…
BY HAARETZ— Israel believes Turkey is actively helping Iran to sidestep economic sanctions and has also turned a blind eye to Iranian weapons smuggling into Syria, according to leaked US diplomatic cables published on Friday. Citing documents obtained by Haaretz, senior Israeli officials had told the United States that Turkey was moving ever-closer to Iran…
BY J.D. LONGSTREET, RIGHTSIDENEWS.COM If, while watching the disturbing events in the Middle East, you are not focusing your attention on Israel – then you are looking in the wrong place. Once, a very long time ago, I heard someone refer to Israel as the “world’s canary in the coal mine.” That is as apt…
According to tradition, the Last Supper took place in what is called today The Room of the Last Supper on Mount Zion, just outside of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Anyone that visits Israel can see this Upper Room and imagine what it might have been like the last night in the life…
