The discourse about Israel in Dubai and Ramallah couldn't be more different: cooperation versus confrontation, celebration versus demonization
It will take a long time to repair the damage that the machinations used to ensconce the current coalition have wrought.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Thousands of Israelis gathered at the Modi’in cemetery on Monday to accompany Eli Kay on his final journey.
What prevents Israel from doing what’s necessary to regain her lost honor?
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Kay, worked at the Kotel, served in the IDF’s Paratroops Division, was engaged to be married in a few months and was a yeshiva student learning in Kiryat Gat.
There are reports of Israeli dead and wounded. The terrorist was neutralized.
Happiness is not an emotion; it is a decision. Stop waiting passively to feel it and start actively choosing to be it.
Riots and looting broke out around the country in response to the not guilty verdict.
The U.S. Constitution isn’t a blueprint for a purely secular country. But it guarantees that all creeds are welcome and that the nation has no state religion. Those who would change that endanger everyone’s rights.
The couple were arrested by Turkey for taking a picture during their vacation.
Both Bennett and Netanyahu are guilty of placing political considerations above national ones by bringing this enemy of the state into the government and empowering it.
The U.S. media is evolving a narrative conflating Democrats and democracy, while eliminating actual democracy.
There is no Israeli consent to these plans, and no permits were provided for these projects. Most of the projects are slated for areas under full Israeli control.
Nothing short of a deep commitment to traditional Jewish ritual practice will lead to a revitalization of Jewish life in America and create a basis for recovery in Diaspora-Israel relations.
The ADL has acknowledged that Jew-hatred is on the rise on the left. But as long as it attacks CRT critics and supports media gaslighting about it, that stand is meaningless.
Netanyahu came out lashing, declaring the bill and it's supporters undemocratic.
If a U.S. Armed Forces dies on active duty, the surviving family members receive a "death gratuity" of $100,000; an illegal alien separated from a child while unlawfully entering the US would get more than 4X that
ADL Allies: Israel Haters , Hamas apologists, Blood libelers.
By Sarah Stern
Israelis have held their tongues for decades, hoping that when the big, Iranian existential threat is upon them that the Americans will come through.
With the budget passed, the coalition is no longer showing as unified a front in the Knesset as it did before.
Nikki Haley’s demand that AIPAC snub Democrats who aren’t fully supportive of Israel won GOP applause. Still, efforts to preserve or revive what’s left of a shattered consensus must continue.
The two Arab leaders discussed the two-state solution.
What is truly more urgent: Curbing greenhouse gas emissions or quashing Iran’s nuclear bomb drive?
By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar
All Israeli prime ministers have asserted that the unity of Jerusalem is not a matter subject to political dispute, and in that spirit, the current Israeli government, too, should express itself clearly and decisively, even while facing an American government that characterizes itself as friendly.
Many liberal Jews don’t want to know about Jewish exceptionalism because it runs smack into the cardinal precepts of liberal dogma—universalism, the rejection of cultural singularity and the eradication of difference as “discrimination.”
Coronavirus patients are up to three times more likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
Israel faces the "Big Lie assault," in which massive repetition of outrageous falsehoods stuns the mind into accepting them.
The administration’s harsh criticisms, combined with renewed appeasement of Iran, bode ill for the alliance. How serious is the president about demanding that Israel bow to his demands?
"Israel must do what is best for Israel, just like every other country does, and worry less about the reactions of others."
Following his validation in Afghanistan of this damning indictment, Biden now has a chance at last to get something right by abandoning his plan to undermine a close ally, reduce the prospects of peace and sentence the Palestinian people to more decades of suffering.
By Paul Gherkin
Obama Administration essentially set up an armed Palestinian militia inside the US Jerusalem consulate in 2015.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Original documents belonging to Yemenite Olim from the 1880s who lived in Kfar HaShiloach were recently discovered and brought to light.
Two ingredients drove the outcome in the 2020 elections: 1) Private philanthropy injected into government election offices 2) A banana-republic style suspension of agreed-upon election rules. You didn't need much outright voter fraud when these two ingredients combined to poison the 2020 election.
I am not going to argue for the value of the existence of the Jewish people--And we don’t need to convince anybody.
22 percent said they had changed their habits when it comes to going out.
The U.S. administration is trying to decide: is toppling the Israeli coalition and putting Netanyahu back in office worth the price of the consulate to the PLO?
By BESA CENTER
Much like the Oslo illusion, which posited that territorial concessions to the PLO would bring about peace with the Palestinians, the hope that economic easing in the Gaza Strip will moderate Hamas terrorism is a mistaken attempt to apply a Western logic of conflict management to a Palestinian enemy whose definition of the end of the conflict with Israel is not in the West’s political-cultural lexicon.
The lower mortality risk after COVID-19 vaccination suggests substantial healthy vaccinee effects.
A “New York Times” article raised questions about whether the actress was “neutral” enough to lead the TV institution. But the focus on her support for Israel raises more questions about the newspaper than Bialik
If Israel formally refused to give its consent to the decision to open the consulate and the Biden administration went ahead with its implementation, nonetheless, it would put the United States in a position of flagrant violation of the relevant international convention dealing with consular relations between states.
Nothing says political norms like cop killers and racist terrorists.
Despite being a branch of the Israeli Defense Ministry/Israel Defense Forces, the Civil Administration is more concerned with facilitating the creation of the "State of Palestine" than it is with ensuring the rights of the Jewish people in its ancestral homeland.
Aymen Odeh was visiting a Hamas terrorist in Kaplan hospital.
By dvora
Despite all the statistics, the problem of anti-Semitism extends beyond what can be quantified.
As usual, the Left used Rabin Day to attack their opponents to the right.
By Forest Rain
Am I happy that my friend became Prime Minister? Absolutely--At the same time, I am absolutely horrified by the way it happened and the problems it is and will create in our society for the years to come
By BESA CENTER
French sensitivity to Muslim public opinion has led to the creation of a double standard regarding Israel’s fight against terrorism. France’s own fight against Islamist terrorism is viewed as justified, but Israel is to be condemned for fighting Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip.
By Alex Traiman
Israel’s foreign minister and prime minister-in-waiting has been free to operate without much attention or criticism. Yet, since taking office, he’s overseen some highly questionable diplomatic moves that harm critical Israeli national-security interests.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
EU representative: "For us, East Jerusalem is part of the occupied Palestinian territory."
Antisemitism comes in a variety of guises, and Jews have real problems concerning it. Casting non-Jews to play Jews in movies and television isn't one of them.
By Gregg Roman
If Israel wishes to break the hope of terrorists, it is going about it the wrong way.
Americans are losing their liberty not to invading armies from China or Russia, or even to terrorists from Al-Qaeda, but to domestic revolutionaries.
Biden’s weakness fuels a Democrat civil war.
Given Biden's curious response to ABC News, one could legitimately ask, just whose national policy are we actually pursuing? The president's or his advisors?
For thousands of lucky Gazans, an Israeli work permit is their ticket to freedom from the Hamas regime.
Unfortunately the increased crime, especially if it’s coupled with inefficient enforcement of laws, leads to its normalization in society. More and more, crime is seen as an option by young people in Arab towns. This is what is going on now, and it’s particularly noticeable with regard to the crime of crimes, murder.
By Israel Hayom
The establishment of "Palestine" will lead to the return of refugees, the dissimilation of Arab Israelis, the rousing of Palestinian Jordanians, and the definition of Palestine as the unification of the West Bank, Gaza, and Arab regions inside Israel and Jordan.
By Guy Millière
"What do you call a party whose leaders require all of America's soldiers to undergo indoctrination in an ideology that calls for the 'dismantling' of America and tells them that their oath to defend the Constitution is an oath to defend a document that codifies 'white supremacy'?... You call it treason." — David Horowitz, author and former Black Panther, Front Page Magazine, September 14, 2021
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Meretz minister of Health believed it was more important to meet with the head of the PLO than to sit in the cabinet meeting on the Coronavirus.
Lapid’s recent Gaza policy proposal is just one more display in an appalling catalogue of his imbecility-cum-ignorance, which, in light of his electoral success, is—in itself—a grave indictment of the Israeli voter
I don't know if young Jews think about this, but nearly all Jews who grew up in the decades following the Holocaust often wondered: Would this non-Jew hide me?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In the plea deal, 22-year-old John Earnest admitted to hate-crime allegations.
Had Israeli troops remained, Israel would be criticized. Now that they have left, there is still criticism. For some, Israel can do no right.
AOC’s tears and subsequent apology for not opposing the Iron Dome illustrated the frustrations of the left and the fears of other Democrats about being bulldozed by radicals.
After much criticism, the Times quietly removed the reference to "rabbis" without apologizing for its reporter's mendacious anti-Semitism or disciplining her for her journalistic malpractice.
Iran’s nuclear program has hit a watershed moment and so has our tolerance. Words do not stop centrifuges from spinning."
By Ben Cohen
We all know that raw prejudice among Jews against those who are visibly Jewish—that they are loud, rude, unwashed, contemptuous towards outsiders and all the rest of that baggage—is our community’s dirty secret.
The fact that the Squad would try to deny Israel the right to defend its civilians speaks volumes about the lack of morality and decency among Squad members and their allies.
It was certainly the weirdest year. It began with a supremely weird decision by the entire world, except China and Sweden, to tank the global economy. No one has ever done that before. The only major economic power to grow last year was China whose GDP is up by, I think, about 2.5 percent compared […]
Nearly all the votes against Israel were from the Democrat's progressive wing.
By Sean Savage
“Despite its seemingly innocuous name, this legislation is just another assault on Israel from the fringe left. The American people are pro-Israel, and as a result, this legislation is destined to fail,” chairwoman of the CUFI Action Fund Sandra Parker told JNS.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel Allies Foundation names the top 50 Christian leaders to contribute to the Jewish state in 2021.
Man plans, God laughs.
I don’t want to be even more negative than I have to be, but there is a fundamental cultural instability in America that seems to be becoming more intense with time.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israel’s Ambassador accused Democratic New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of legitimizing Hamas’ “attacks against innocent civilians, as well as anti-Semitic lies.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The donation will finance “sustainable economic development in [Palestine] over the next two years,” according to P.A. Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh.
By BESA CENTER
Unlike Israel’s earlier peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, the Abraham Accords involved Arab countries that do not border Israel, have never fought it on the battlefield, and are relatively unburdened by the Palestinian question. Accordingly, they were able to implement a “people to people” peace that eluded their predecessors.
Here I offer a different type of list: A smattering of “interesting” Jews to follow in 5782. Interesting in my book means profound, substantive, and making a real contribution to the long-term future of Israel and the Jewish People.
By Jeff Dunetz
How Walking With My Dad On The High Holidays Kept Me From Walking Away From My Faith
Motives may explain, but they do not ever excuse.
Their relatively quiet re-capture could well be the function of the comfortable life in Israeli prison while accumulating massive salaries.
What the supposed quest for Palestinian statehood and social justice is really about.
US taxpayer dollars will not drive Palestinians to accept Israel's right to exist. The same applies to the Israeli gestures, which are not likely to achieve the Biden administration's hope of bolstering the PA's standing or advancing the "two-state solution."
Falling off the ethical cliff....
Arizona's state Treasurer Kimberly Yee announced on Tuesday that the state of Arizona is completely divesting from Ben & Jerry's.
The stories that defined the past Jewish year.
In-person or online? Indoors or outdoors? Once poised for a High Holidays renaissance this year, synagogues nationwide are facing renewed questions as COVID-19 cases surge.
Demolition orders like the one for Arugot Farm’s vineyard are just one way the Bennett-Lapid government is moving toward establishing a hostile Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.
By Israel Hayom
It's hard to understand the Palestinians and the Arab Israelis who rejoiced at the site of the recent massive wildfires near Jerusalem. People who love their land don't burn it.
Israel has not had a new budget in 1.5 years.
The teacher was required to present a negative test after refusing to be vaccinated.
We all saw Biden checking his watch at Dover while waiting for the transfer of the men and women he killed to be complete
Judea and Samaria—Yehuda and Shomron—should be called by their real names and not by the ersatz woke term that seeks to divest 800,000 Jews now living there of their heritage and of their land
The Religious Zionism party accused the current Israeli government of detouring from the law blocking PA tax funds for terrorist salaries.
Why can't we have Judaism WITHOUT Zionism?
Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai’s claim that it is not his job to encourage aliya to Israel negates the very purpose of Zionism, as understood and emphasized by the leaders of the founding generation. First and foremost among those leaders was David Ben-Gurion, who saw the ingathering of the exiles as “the yearning, destiny, and mission of the State of Israel.”
Bennett is very unpopular these days in Israel –Perhaps he thinks that if he throws Biden a news-cycle lifeline, Biden will be grateful enough to give him something in return.
Medinat Yisrael is not to be taken for granted – for those outside, who confidently assure themselves that “Next Year in Jerusalem” – it is the first time in recent memory that Jews want to come and cannot because of corona. For us in the Land, we look forward to the Shemittah year to remind us not to take it for granted.