By Caroline Glick, Jpost—- From 1994 through 1996, as a captain in the IDF, I served as a member of Israel’s negotiating team with the PLO. Those years were the heyday of the so-called peace process. As the coordinator of negotiations on civil affairs for the Coordinator of Government Activities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza,…
By Caroline Glick, JPost—- The so-called “Oslo process,” is really two processes. The first was the Oslo peace process. It began with secret negotiations between Israeli leftists with ties to then-foreign minister Shimon Peres in Oslo, Norway, in 1993. It led to Israel’s recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the establishment of the PLO-controlled…
By Israel National News— The Derech Chaim Movement headed Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh on Wednesday morning demanded the Palestinian Authority be dismantled. Rabbi Shevach, 35, was murdered in a terror attack on Tuesday night, when an Arab terrorist shot at the rabbi’s car as he drove by Havat Gilad. He left behind a widow and six…
By Israel Today— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday departed for his fateful first meeting with Donald Trump since becoming the 45th president of the United States. But before Netanyahu left, Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef blessed him and prayed for the meeting. “May the Holy One, Blessed be He, be with your words. You…
By RON JAGER— As a longtime resident of Shaare Tiqva for the past 24 years, Shabbat Chol Hamoed began as a non-eventful day in which the reading of Aicha is for me always a special event. Towards late afternoon on Shabbat, when the ominous gray clouds above began to release winters first rainfall, the entrance…
By EARL COX, ISRAEL ALWAYS— “Peace” talks. “Peace” negotiations. It is imperative that the people of Israel wake up and realize that there will never be peace with the Palestinians as long as there is a State of Israel populated by Jews. The problem is not settlements or construction or small pieces of land in…
By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— Twenty years ago this week, Israel committed one of the greatest strategic blunders in its modern history, one that is still casting a long and painful shadow over the entire Middle East. Ignoring military intelligence, moral principles and basic common sense, then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the Oslo Accords with PLO…
By DAVID RUBIN— For years, we have been hearing expressions such as “the plight of the Palestinians”, “the legitimate rights of the Palestinians”, and most recently, the “national right of the Palestinians to their own independent state”. These mantras have been repeated in the last thirty years almost as often as a MacDonald’s commercial and…
By RON JAGER– The popular ultra-Orthodox Israeli politician Aryeh Deri is preparing a comeback after a 13-year hiatus that included a prison term for accepting bribes. The charismatic Deri, 53, was a rising young star who transformed Shas from a small, niche party into a major factor in Israeli politics before he went to prison.…