It looks from here like a really bad weekend in Israel. Some 40-odd rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel within 48 hours, as far as Beersheva. Arabs rioted throughout the country, throwing rocks and firebombs at any available Jewish target. They systematically destroyed the light rail tracks, stations and equipment in Arab neighborhoods […]
The teenagers in the video, then, were either injured non-seriously by rubber bullets, or faking for the camera.
The liberal wing of the Jewish establishment in the US is following the same path as it did in the 1940s.
When will the State of Israel decide the Palestinian Arabs are a hostile enemy and treat them as such?
The fact that she chooses a boycott of Israeli universities as an example of a just limitation of academic freedom is a perfect example of the defect in her approach.
Israel is an independent sovereign state, and it should not be treated as a banana republic.
The survival of the state requires control of Judea/Samaria and a primarily Jewish population without hostile elements.
Unfortunately, some people are still in the dark about the significance of this, and similar acts.
This is not a post that I wanted to write, though I knew it was coming.
The U.S. government is tacitly agreeing that the historical truth about the Jews and Israel is inimical to “peace.”
Peres chose the uranium because Israel needed it to survive.
Incitement against Israel has reached a fever pitch, and PA officials are not even pretending to want to stop it.
The ‘test’ Mr. Kerry wants to perform is to weaken sanctions in return for promises and actions that will not materially affect Iran’s progress toward a weapon. That isn’t a test — it’s a capitulation.
The bad news is that Assad’s Syria is a pipeline of all kinds of support from Iran to Hizbollah.
The Iranian regime apparently believes that its frequent repetition of the “fatwa” lie will make it be accepted as truth.
Two days before he spoke, Rouhani reviewed a missile transports parade in Teheran with the slogans “Death to America” and “Israel should cease to exist.”
It is not Israel’s job to “help sway members” of Congress.
President Obama feels boxed in by his ‘red line’ promise.
Not a peep was heard a few months ago when Israel announced that it would build housing for Arabs in the same area.
The U.S. is furious over the release of one Mexican drug lord, imagine how they would react if 104 “violent butchers” were released from prison.
The idea persists, despite the fact that — by any objective standard — the behavior of Israel is anything but expansionist and invasive.
Netanyahu betrayed the families of the victims of these terrorists, who were shot, burned, stabbed, blown up and beaten to death.
He who gets to write the questions, wins the referendum.
For Obama, the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood attained power in a more-or-less free election, outweighs the fact that their political principles are thoroughly anti-democratic.
A state that requires sacrifice from its people to survive, will only get it if there is a compelling ideological motivation driving its citizens to make the requisite sacrifices.
In 100 years, there will be 116 million Palestinian refugees!
The series is explicitly intended to demonize the Jews as an alien race hostile to Muslims and the welfare of the world.
It has always fascinated me that those calling for a “two-state solution” seem to believe that once an agreement is signed and the IDF leaves the territories, then there will be peace.
Shortly after Clinton’s election at the tail end of the Israeli-Hezbollah war of 2016, Hezbollah activated several terrorist cells in the U.S.
A pity he didn’t get his arrogant Jew-hating head blown off, in my opinion.
From the standpoint of the Islamist Hamas, the actions of the prisoners constitute defensive jihad against Jews usurping land which is an Islamic waqf.
We see more and more violent acts ‘explained’ in terms of foreign policy.
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In Birkenhead, near Liverpool, slaughterhouse workers had refused to process any more meat for Jewish consumption until the attacks on British soldiers in Palestine stopped.
The yellow star is probably not in the running as label for "settlements" products, but it should be.
During the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations the US government has actively courted Muslims who have overt connections to terrorism.
It's all about establishing Jewish-free areas.
A situation has arisen in Judea and Samaria where attempted murder — and sometimes the attempts are successful — is a daily occurrence.
Not one Jew was allowed to remain on the Jordanian side of the cease-fire line.
Why didn't then Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and then Prime Minister Ehud Barak demand that all the footage shot by France 2 on that day be placed at Israel’s disposal to do a proper investigation?
The video story was part of a theme that has run through Obama’s presidency from the beginning.
It seems Russia has decided that the "strong horse" in the Middle East is Iran and the Shiites.
By agreeing with said gangsters that ‘Palestine’ is a state, Google is in effect agreeing that the Jewish people do not have a legitimate state.
In the snake pit of academia, where unfashionable explicit Jew-hatred has morphed into enthusiastic and widespread over-the-top anti-Zionism, Professor Tammi Rossman-Benjamin stands out.
The Chinese proposal gives nothing to Israel except a vague "right to exist" — which of course is in not question regarding any other nation. Indeed, it could have been dictated by Mahmoud Abbas.
Long term trends are mostly in Israel’s favor, although there are serious short-term threats that have to be overcome.
Anyone anyone who talks negatively about Islam is accused of bigotry and hatred on the level of the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazi party.
The United States pays about 22% of the UN’s budget, which amounted to almost than $8 billion in 2010.
Deterrence requires a credible threat. It isn’t enough to issue ominous-sounding ultimata unless they are believed.
Europe has taken the path of multiculturalism and we can see the results.
Does the viciously random nature of the bombing give a clue to the motive?
Honor is a concept that is paramount in non-Western cultures, but sometimes it seems that the West has no clue about.
Somehow it has become acceptable to dump on Christian Zionists for their political activities, but absolutely taboo to criticize Muslim groups, some of which support Hamas or Hizballah.
If we compare Western and Islamic cultures, we find that universalist attitudes are common in the former and rare in the latter.
The Jewish lesson of the Holocaust is this: Jew hatred is real, it is dangerous and it is not possible for Jews to depend on others to protect them.
In the mainstream media version, the IDF killed peaceful protesters. In reality, the terrorists were throwing firebombs at an army post.
Following the letter from American Jewish leaders calling on Israel to make concessions, the Emergency Committee for Israel penned it's own letter to the Prime Minister.
A sentence has not been pronounced yet, but the murderer of Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonathan faces the possibility of a life sentence.
Over a century ago, Jabotinsky argued that apologizing too much practically means accusing one's self.
Israel must insist that there can be no negotiations until all parties agree that Israel is the Jewish state of the Jewish people.
Israel's 'apology' to Turkey will not improve relations with Turkey because relations are poor as a result of a deliberate strategy, not an unpleasant incident.
Why the two-state solution is no solution at all.
Obama's visit is costly and complicated, and will have objectives that the President thinks are important, like Israeli withdrawals.
When does the 'Unbreakable Bond' become an abusive relationship?
To a great extent, the whole idea of a two-state solution as presented by President Obama, Shimon Peres, etc. is a winged pig.
People are not influenced by rational argument, but rather by emotion, so make your appeals powerful and emotional.
In an online op-ed for the New York Times, a philosophy professor presumes that democracy precludes national symbols of any specific national group and on that basis argues that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state.
A tangled web of non-profit political organizations reveals that George Soros is behind yet another Jewish anti-Zionist front.
It's not surprising that, especially in Egypt, the State Department had a hard time finding someone who did not share the common prejudices against Jews.
When push comes to shove, today’s liberals, even “strong supporters of Israel” like Chuck Schumer, are Obama supporters first.
Reality inversion is a tactic that has proven especially effective in the war against Israel.
Obama’s policy is Saudi policy. That is where the irrational push to create a Palestinian state comes from, and that is where the handcuffs on the IDF are forged.
Barack Obama will bravely step in to take the political risks necessary to once and for all save Israel and the Palestinians from each other — which he will do by forcing more concessions from Israel, yet again.
Background on MP George Galloway, the British legislator who refused to debate an Israeli.
According to former Mossad official Rafi Eitan, the Egyptian military was ready to announce that Ahmed Shafiq won elections, but the US pressured them to announce in favor of Morsi.
A clear explanation of what international law is and is not, and how it applies to some of the controversies around the Jewish state.
My alarm bells went off when the President chose Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.
It seems that over the top anti-Zionism often comes from Jews.
The real villain is the Iranian regime, which has colonized Syria and is colonizing Lebanon in its attempt to squeeze out U.S. influence in the Middle East.
As citizens of Israel these ‘Palestinians’ enjoy the highest standard of living of any Arabs in the Middle East, as well as more personal and political freedom.
Now that the U.S. is closer to energy independence, importing less oil now than at any time since 1987, the Saudis do not have anywhere near the leverage that they had in 1973.
It is important to Assad to promote the narrative that his ‘legitimate’ regime is under attack by outsiders like Israel.
Israel should use its new gas resources to further its political interests, just as the Arabs have done with their energy resources.
Finally, what if, say, Venezuela was developing nuclear weapons and every other day one of their officials promised to root out the ‘cancer’ that was the U.S.?
Morsi, who all but expressly said Jews control the Western media, would find a comforting embrace in the anti-Semitism of some Westerners.
There was little discussion during the campaign of 'the peace process, because everybody in Israel, with the exception of the European- and NIF-funded Left, knows that the “peace process” is dead.
Brennan is 100 percent on board with the Obama policy that our enemies consist only of 'al-Qaeda and its extremist allies.'
Sometimes I read something that is so on-target and illuminating that I want to say “stop what you are doing and read this now!” Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian journalist who was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2008 and was Vice President of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. She has just announced that she is leaving […]
The thugs on the ground in Europe and the Obama Administration now simply want to impose the UN’s diktat on Israel.
If Schumer buys Hagel's transformation so will a majority of senators.
The Jewish state is supposed to be a place where people are not humiliated for being Jews.
It is reported that U.S. officials admit that there is no way to prevent Assad from using the chemical weapons that were prepared.
What is the Obama Administration doing in the face of the imminent collapse of the largest and historically most important and powerful state in the Arab world, now ruled by an anti-Western and anti-Semitic radical Islamic regime?
This is one of those times that I wish the anti-Semites were right, and that there was actually a semi-covert, powerful and well-funded Jewish lobby forcing the US to do its bidding.
The Obama administration has succeeded in making the issue of Hagel all about Israel and Jews.
The ideal is a tolerant Jewish state which is nevertheless fully Jewish. This isn’t an easy sell to secular Israelis.
There is as little chance of the conditions described in the poll being fulfilled as there being a porcine airlift.
A policy of appeasing the US and EU can only aid the Arabs in their project to weaken Israel and slice away at it, bit by bit.
Israelis have finally realized what a bill of goods they were sold in 1993, when they were suckered into the Oslo agreements.
The biggest obstacle to peace, of course, is the Palestinian intention to establish an Arab state from the river to the sea.
Nothing triggers the irrational conspiracy center located not-so-deeply in the human brain better than a conspiracy that involves Jews or Israel.