By MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— For a country often portrayed as isolated and alone in the international arena, Israel sure does seem to have a lot of thriving friendships. Indeed, notwithstanding efforts by the media and the Left to paint a picture of the Jewish state as solitary and ostracized, Israel’s popularity appears to be on…
By SHIRA SORKO-RAM, MAOZ— I’m sitting on my reclining chair looking out the window at the blue sultry August skies. Nothing but peace and quiet in our little suburb north of Tel Aviv. Yes, it is true that the most ghastly crime thinkable is taking place not far away. Syria’s president is gassing his own…
Think on this: “Praise be to you, O Yahweh, God and father of the Israel of God, from everlasting to everlasting. 11 Yours, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Yahweh, is the kingdom; you…
By MICHAEL FREUND— The state of Israel this week turned 65, defying history and the odds to celebrate its continued existence in a very dangerous part of the world. Countless flags fluttered from cars and homes throughout the country, and numerous families took advantage of the weather to barbeque meat and enjoy a well-earned day…
By PAUL GREENBERG, TOWNHALL— Not that you haven’t noticed, Gentle Reader, but the world is coming apart. Again. Beginning with the Middle East, where, to put it as diplomatically as possible, all hell is about to break loose on Israel’s border with Hamasland, aka Gaza. You can see war coming by the rockets’ red glare,…
By JONATHAN SCHANZER, NATIONAL POST— In a surgical air strike on Wednesday, Israel eliminated the terrorist leader who masterminded the capture of Israeli soldier Gilat Shalit in 2006. Yesterday’s attack killed Ahmed Jabari, a top leader of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, more commonly known as the armed wing of Hamas. Israel released a video…
By REUTERS– Israel would use a lot fewer cluster munitions in any future war with Hezbollah than it did in their 2006 conflict, even though it would go into southern Lebanon earlier and harder, a senior Israeli military officer said on Monday. The disclosure confirms Israel already has detailed planning for an offensive aiming to…
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, WASHINGTON POST — Either Israel is engaged in the most elaborate ruse since the Trojan horse or it is on the cusp of a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. What’s alarming is not just Iran’s increasing store of enriched uranium or the growing sophistication of its rocketry. It’s also the increasingly…
By DANIEL GREENFIELD, SULTAN KNISH — If Israel jets show up in Iranian airspace, it will most likely happen while Obama is too busy accusing Mitt Romney of secretly storing all his money in a giant cave in the Rocky Mountains to do more than dispatch a flunky to chew out Netanyahu over the phone.…
BY DANIEL PIPES, NRO— Of Israel’s neighbors, Lebanon always stood out by virtue of its weak central government, but for the first twenty years, 1948-68, this did not present difficulties to Israel; only when the Palestinians created a state-within-a-state there did its anarchy became a major challenge to the Jewish state, as symbolized by the…