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In this move, Germany joins Israel, the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council and Japan in banning Hezbollah in its entirety.
"We are distressed and angry. . . We ask the prime minister – do not allow President Vladimir Putin to land in Israel without Naama returning home.”
For far too long, a great deal of what amounts to anti-Jewish invective at our universities has been given a pass, using our First Amendment freedoms as a smokescreen to hide behind.
“Some American Jews don’t love Israel enough.”
In 2003 she compared conditions in Gaza to those in the Warsaw Ghetto, for which she was criticized by the chairman of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli forces will “100 percent” face tunnel warfare in future armed conflicts on its borders, says IDF Maj. Gen. Mickey Edelstein.
By BESA CENTER
Extreme instability and mistrust are heightening tensions in the Persian Gulf, especially between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia. America’s appetite for military engagement has waned after nearly two decades of war and the region lacks any form of collective security framework, leaving a considerable security vacuum. The Gulf states’ overtures to Israel are part of an effort to salvage America’s security commitment to the area while shoring up a relationship that can mitigate Tehran’s rising influence.
The American Jewish establishment needs Trump to be an anti-Semite to justify its continued support for the Democratic Party.
In a recent press conference, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett presented a goal for IDF activity in Syria: “To cause Iran to give up its attempt to entrench itself in Syria.” Unlike the common tendency toward ambiguity in defining strategic objectives, Bennett dared pronounce a clear and measurable goal. But is the goal he presented achievable? And is it right to declare a strategic goal in that way?
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy ordered flags across the state to be flown at half-mast for a full week beginning on Friday, Dec. 13, in “recognition and mourning of the passing of the victims in Jersey City.”
The EU, which is officially committed to fighting terrorism, supports the Palestinian Authority (PA), which supports terrorists and their families. Just try making sense of that.
Netanyahu made the announcement in response to a petition by the Movement for Quality Government (MQG) to the High Court of Justice. He will remain prime minister.
Under the new ruling, Judaism will be defined as a national origin, rather than as a religion.
Israel's unprecedented third election in one year will be held on March 2, 2020.
These two grounds [of impeachment] — abuse of power and obstruction of congress — are not among the criteria specified for impeachment. Neither one is a high crime and misdemeanor. Neither is mentioned in the constitution. Both are the sort of vague, open-ended criteria rejected by the framers. They were rejected precisely to avoid the situation in which our nation currently finds itself.
Many think that anti-Semitism is a prejudice against Jews as people, whereas anti-Zionism and Israel-bashing are legitimate attacks on a political project.
Let's be clear: the only people who are upset over a President, or anyone, saying that people should love Israel more are people who hate Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The recognition of Palestine as a State would neither be a favor, nor a blank check."
The real dispute over the future of the alliance isn’t about Trump, but why Turkey remains inside the tent and the Jewish state remains on the outside looking in.
“There is something sick in the State Prosecutor’s Office; Shai Nitzan is not fit to be the State Prosecutor” - Judge Hila Gerstel, former Commissioner for Prosecutorial Oversight
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Without remembrance, there cannot be truth; without truth, there cannot be justice; without justice, there cannot be reconciliation" . . . or peace."
The time has come for Israel to stop willfully ignoring the phenomenon of Holocaust denial in the Arab world and start fighting it. Dialogue and rapprochement cannot possibly start from a position of antisemitism and Holocaust denial.
The PA suspects this is evidence of an American-Israeli plan to support an independent Hamas government in the Gaza Strip.
There’s a straight line connecting leftists’ rejection of the settlements’ legality with rightists’ rejection of the indictments against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Circumstances provide an opportunity for Israel to use the chaos in Iran to its advantage. But Israel’s government is paralyzed because the attorney general has decided that almost all activities require his prior approval.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Likud says that Yair Lapid is behind the failure to form a unity government.
The question is, "Who determines who will run the country. Will it be the voters or the lawyers?"
The most striking similarity is that both are being investigated for actions that their legislatures have not explicitly made criminal.
By Ben Cohen
The three most common stereotypes neatly encapsulate the triangular denunciation of the Jews: They dominate the economy and financial markets; they are more loyal to the State of Israel than they are to the continent; and they talk endlessly of their suffering during the Holocaust.
By BESA CENTER
The Trump administration’s decision to repudiate an earlier approach that regarded Israeli communities across the “Green Line” as illegal has been praised and condemned. While there may be merit to seeing the move as an effort to help PM Benjamin Netanyahu or at least break Israel’s electoral logjam, there are deeper motives at play. Trump and his administration have made a hallmark of defying dysfunctional conventional wisdom and foreign policy inertia that elevate process over results. But while the predicted calamities of this policy have not materialized, the administration’s lack of any Grand Strategy makes the benefits difficult to aggregate.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
"In light of the deterioration of relations with the occupying state and the increasingly harsh tone of [Israel's] statements vis-à-vis Jordan ... It seems we will be waging a 'cool battle' with the occupier."
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“Everyone understands: Israel is in the midst of a government crisis that could lead to an economic and social collapse. It is indeed a real alarm.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. policymakers can take steps to decrease the likelihood of another war and prepare Israel for provocations from terror groups—namely, Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
As far as who can do Bibi's job - at the moment, no one, but Bibi would be gone one way or another eventually, and I have faith in Israel's democracy
Ever since Mandelblit gave his “recommendations,” he and his comrades have been the only political actors in Israel with any power to speak of.
By changing the discourse about settlements, the Trump administration is laying the groundwork for realistic negotiation. Even if you think that Israeli settlement should be rolled-back in the context of a sensible peace arrangement, applying the demonizing epithet “illegal” makes for a destructive narrative that distances, not advances, peace.
Israel had claims to Judea and Samaria; it did not invade another country, offensively, to take away its land. And the Palestinians weren’t living in a nation of their own that could be occupied.
This is not a good guy/bad guy scenario. Instead, it is a temporary rift between two extremely bad guys, both of whom are wholly committed to destroying Israel, even if that means destroying their own people along the way as well.
Watch Syrian missile after missile simple turn over and hit the ground.
The unprecedented convergence of strategic threats now taking shape under Iran’s inspiration and guidance requires the IDF to adopt a new operational approach without delay (including a reorganization and a suitable buildup) and the Israeli public to prepare for the emergency situations attending these new emergent threats.
The Sidna Omar mosque was built in the 14th century adjacent to the Ramban synagogue and was instrumental in causing the synagogue’s shutdown.
Following the attack, there are no special alerts for Golan Heights residents this morning.
Maybe the best approach is for Americans to work on fixing things there, while allowing Israelis to concentrate on solving their unique problems here.
The obdurate resistance of Gaza to any type of resolution has led to such overriding exasperation that it has begun to undermine the quality of the public debate on the issue.
{Reposted to the author's eponymous website} U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest Mideast decisions cast Israeli airstrikes in Syria and (reportedly) Iraq in a different light. Previously, these airstrikes seemed to be aimed solely at preventing Iran from establishing military infrastructure in both countries that could threaten Israel. But it now turns out they were also […]
Baha Abu al-Ata normally surrounds himself with children as human shields, making it difficult to target him.
The two countries are drawn together by common values and common threats. The bipartisan support for Israel has been a testament to those values, as well as to the practical recognition that the threats require cooperation in intelligence, technology, and security policy.
By creating a mechanism to fund anti-Zionist groups, it is attacking not just Israel, but also a federation system vital to maintaining Jewish institutions in America.
Bennett and Shaked were offered two small ministries or one big one. They chose the Defense Ministry.
While Israel has great military power at hand, it keeps squandering its honor.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A report could lead to increased pressure by the White House on Jordan to extradite Ahlam Tamimi to the US. Tamimi played a major role in the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem that caused the deaths of 15 people, including two Americans, .
The next Israeli government will have to make critical decisions on urgent security challenges stemming from multiple arenas simultaneously. It will also have to waste no time in securing the next defense budget.
The announcement comes after joint drill where NATO vessels simulated medical emergencies at sea with the Israeli Navy.
Misusing the impeachment power in a partisan manner would pose, in the words of Hamilton, "the greatest danger" to our Constitution.
Jewish tradition links the Jews’ continued presence in their land with their moral conduct. But nowhere does it require national suicide.
By Atara Beck
One would think a renowned scholar like professor Harold Kasimow would have immediately challenged the heinous lie that Israel practices ethnic cleansing, rather than calling it a “complicated issue.”
The organization’s new knavery: cutting US military aid to coerce Israel into withdrawals. J Street is now less protective of Israeli security than Obama was.
Try as they do to be loved, Jews continue to be hated more than any other population, regardless of what “type” of Jew they are. Here are the stages and the responses. Best of luck.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“When I will be the prime minister of Israel, I will embrace all streams of Judaism. . . I will nuture this pluralism."
Efforts to replicate the rocket threat in the Gaza Strip have been nipped in the bud due to Israel’s intelligence network and nightly counter-terrorism raids.
It is not difficult to prove that antisemitism is an integral part of Western culture. To be clear: this is radically different from saying that all Europeans are antisemites. Yet Western politicians and leaders almost never admit this evident reality about their societies’ cultures.
The IDF must return to the fundamentals: ground maneuver to achieve “hachra’a” – decisive outcomes.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hamas’ HQ for its terror operations in Judea and Samaria and their financing operation works out of Turkey.
The current situation in Gaza—and the accompanying misery—are the direct result of the misguided attempt to foist statehood on the Palestinian-Arabs.
If Israel’s attorney general does indict Netanyahu, however, he will have done far more than overthrow a political leader. He will have embraced a legal doctrine that rejects the very essence of democracy.
Hamas's support for Erdogan's war on the Kurds seems to be in the context of its attempt to persuade the Turkish authorities to allow its members to continue using Turkey as a base for masterminding terrorist attacks against Israel.
Kahane was absolutely right about one thing, and it is a big thing: Jews and Arabs cannot coexist as equals in Eretz Yisrael (by which I mean the land between the river and the sea). The Land of Israel must be the exclusive property of the Jewish people.
The lack of a reaction to the death of former Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi and the absence of religious demands by protesters in Algeria, Sudan, and Iraq suggest that political Islam is waning after the defeat of ISIS three years ago.
The fact that the world’s most powerful military chose an Israeli active protection system to protect the lives of its tank crews is historic.
By BESA CENTER
Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s calls to invite Israeli Arabs to live and work in Saudi Arabia could be either a diplomatic breakthrough or a cynical ploy. If the former, it could indicate that at long last, the Arab world is awakening to the possibility that to fully enter the modern world, it must normalize relations with Israel.
The real crime was for the US to betray the Kurds -- savory or not -- by making promises it did not keep... and leaving the world to wonder which Middle East ally the US will double-cross next. Take a guess?
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
Facebook is really “fakebook”.
The “reimagining” of Judaism in terms of leftism is an act of enormous arrogance.
By Bassam Tawil
The unpaid electricity debts is yet another example of the Palestinians' unceasing search for ways to blame Israel for self-inflicted miseries. Instead of assuming responsibility...the Palestinians are doing what they do best: trying their utmost to convince the world that it is all Israel's fault.
Anti-Zionists may still be able to intimidate some people, like pop stars who visit Israel, but in the real world and even at the United Nations, their cause is an afterthought.
The more strongly liberal Jews embrace progressivism, the less capable they become of defending their Judaism—much less defending their fellow Jews who aren’t progressive
By Bassam Tawil
If greeting a Jew on his or her holiday, cleaning the beach with an Israeli, or working in Israel are considered by many Arabs a "crime," what will be the fate of any Arab who makes peace with Israel?
“On Sukkot, we pray that peace will be brought upon us. This is a great example of the kind of steps we are taking all year round."
Nine MKs in the 22nd Knesset have served as lawmakers before the 21st Knesset, leaving only eight new MKs in the upcoming Knesset, an all-time low.
By Jeff Dunetz
In its purest essence, the Jewish High Holiday period is the antithesis of the various forms of liberal and progressive government.
Thanks to the high rate of intermarriage, American Jews with children of marriageable age are faced with the crazy situation of seeing their children date a boy named Josh Cohen who is not halachically Jewish and a girl named Rachel Napolitano who is halachically Jewish.
A pre-Rosh Hashana political quiz: Calculate what Israeli and Jewish future you need to be prepared for in 5780…
By Ruthie Blum
Grasping the point of the question, which had to do with his much-touted close personal bond with Netanyahu, Trump concluded by saying, “Look, our relationship is with Israel.”
Smokescreening, the false pretense of friendship toward Israel, is a common practice. Practitioners include US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, former US president Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and German FM Heiko Maas. There is also a mirror phenomenon in which Israeli leaders identify smokescreeners as friends, as when Israeli president Reuven Rivlin called German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier a “true friend of Israel.”
Over the next few weeks, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz will come to terms with the unalterable reality that he cannot form a government. And then we shall see what happens.
The change is significant in that Benny Gantz (B&W) can no longer form a majority coalition with the Chareidi parties.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The report recommends that all UN member states adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of anti-Semitism. So far, 18 of them have done so.
The aim of a compelling US-Israel defense pact must never involve US troops on Israel’s borders, nor determination of Israel’s future borders, nor any reference to Israeli withdrawals from the strategic high-ground of the Judea and Samaria mountain ridges (the cradle of Jewish history). Such a retreat would downgrade Israel from a strategic asset to a strategic liability.
By Alex Traiman
Without the relative stability of his natural partners, Benjamin Netanyahu currently has a bloc of 55 Knesset members supporting him to form a new government—six seats short of a majority.
The Israeli electorate has the potential to fundamentally transform Israel. Politically the country is ready for a right-wing revolution. But every election brings the same crooks back into power. Or votes are wasted on reform third parties
And what a fine mess we are still in.
The battle for the soul of Western Civilization will be won when voices of rational debate and civil discourse join together against ideological extremism on both sides of the aisle.
Netanyahu expressed surprise that Gantz refused to even meet him for talks.
Israeli voters won’t determine whether peace is possible. That happened when Abbas succeeded Arafat and subsequently refused to hold another vote.
The rightwing bloc is larger, but doesn't have the requisite 61 seats.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Beyond its unquestionable vitality for Israel’s security, the Jordan Valley in its full geographical scope can accommodate millions of Israelis and national infrastructure that cannot be compressed into the coastal plain. If PM Netanyahu’s declaration of sovereignty is not immediately borne out by a surge of building and focused governmental support, it will sputter and die.
By BESA CENTER
Harnessing the Eurasian lands has always been difficult. The Khazars, an obscure people from the steppes that converted to Judaism many centuries ago, stand out as an exceptional example of how geography, economy, and religion can be used to advance geopolitical interests.
Will the growing use of drones by the Gaza-based terror groups make the billion dollar Iron Dome and anti-tunnel barrier useless—or at least irrelevant?
Bennett claims the Deal of the Century will create islands of Israel within an ocean of Palestine.
Freedom of and from religion is what we’ll get if a defiantly secular, left-of-center Israeli government is formed later this fall, comprising Blue & White, Israel Beytenu, Labor-Gesher, the Democratic Union and the United Arab List. Just imagine…
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