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As a rule, on entering Israeli politics, senior military and security figures have played a troubling role, which has—almost uniformly—proved disastrous, both for the country and/or for themselves.
“This is part of the revolution that we are doing in the Arab and Islamic worlds; I promised you that this would happen. There will be more major news."
The IDF destroyed the top floor of the building where the terrorist lived.
Netanyahu, as two Israeli leftists recently admitted, is far more moderate than his hardline image. But by portraying him as an extremist, the left has tarnished Israel among both American Jews and the Democratic Party.
The salaries paid to these recipients, among them murderers, ranged from NIS 1,400/month to NIS 12,000/month.
By Jeff Ballabon and Bruce Abramson
Trump bad for Israel? Worse than Obama? Insane.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Based on an analysis of cost, schedule and performance, the Army [decided] ... to field two interim IFPC batteries of Iron Dome in 2020."
If the “New Right” is to really advance “Right wing” causes, it must abandon schemes that lead to the Lebanonization or Balkanization of Israeli society & work towards legitimizing the idea of incentivized emigration of the Arab population of Judea-Samaria
This development comes amid accusations of anti-Semitism within the movement’s leadership, causing many organizations to drop their support of the this year’s march, scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 19.
To single out only the "Jew among nations," and not the dozens of far more serious violators of human rights is bigotry pure and simple, and those who support BDS only against Israel are guilty of bigotry.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Dima Tayeh, a Muslim woman with Israeli citizenship, announced she will run in the Likud primaries with the objective of becoming a Member of Knesset.
Tlaib accused U.S. senators sponsoring a law against the BDS movement of looking out for the interests of Israel rather America's, ironic considering that she literally wore a Palestinian flag while pledging herself to the Palestinian Arab cause when she was sworn into office.
The 14-year-old girl was stabbed in the neck and arm.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Arab takeover of IDF training grounds in the southern Hebron Hills continues: The British government and the European Union are paving an illegal road through the very same training ground that was the subject of Regavim's recent Supreme Court petition.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Progressives (and not just in the United States) think that the two-state solution would fulfill Palestinian aspirations.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Moshe Arens, revered as one of Israel’s most prominent politicians, passed away at his home in Savyon on Monday morning, a few days after his 93rd birthday.
One cannot but think that if another country treated Jews, wearing “kippot” and “peyote”, the way Jewish minors, accused of “terror” are treated in Israel, it would surely be engulfed in a wave of outrage and condemned for blatant anti-Semitism
A situation in which Habayit Hayehudi, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu Party, Yisrael Beytenu, and Shas are all hovering near the minimum electoral threshold would be a dangerous one. So dangerous that the right could lose power.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Researchers can make inferences based on studying the roots of the words and their meanings, and try to piece together the history of words, though it’s far from an exact science.
By Andrea Levin
In a 4700-word story about a Palestinian medic killed in Gaza border violence, there is no mention of the thousand Hamas rockets fired into Israel in 2018 and Israeli families sleeping in shelters. There is no mention of Hamas chieftains leading chants of "Death to Israel."
By Daniel Pipes
Muslims show increasing indifference to the breakdown in Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy, but Leftists express growing anger over it. Thanks to a mix of Palestinian public relations expertise and continued antisemitism, the welfare of this small and powerless but fanatical population has transmogrified into the premier global issue of human rights
Last summer’s events in the Gaza Strip cast serious doubt on the feasibility of a complete Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, as the proximity of that area to Israel’s main population centers and economic/strategic assets ensures its transformation into the main combat zone should it undergo a militarization process similar to that experienced by Gaza and Lebanon. The question is whether the IDF has an effective response to the advent of parallel major threats on several fronts.
If the “West Bank” was part of the “Hashemite Kingdom” up to 1967, how did it suddenly become the Palestinians’ long-yearned-for homeland which, up until then, they were submissively willing to cede to an alien potentate?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As the commander of the operation, I recommended to my superiors that Israel should make the most of this success and expand the campaign by allowing Southern Command forces to seize control of Gaza City bring Hamas to its knees by either eliminating terrorist or capturing them. My recommendation was denied.
By BESA CENTER
If and when the Palestinian Authority (PA) collapses, Jordan will bear the greatest brunt of the resulting humanitarian crisis. Such a collapse will almost certainly lead to a mass exodus of Palestinians from Areas A and B.
It is quite clear to all: The snap elections are less about the legislation and more about the impending criminal indictments awaiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Religious parties in the coalition refused to back the legislation called the Hareidi Draft Law.
Israel’s general elections will be held on April 9th, seven months ahead of their scheduled date in November 2019.
After 12 years of a non-functioning parliament Abbas suddenly ordered the Palestinian Constitutional Court to meet yesterday to dissolve the parliament. Why now?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Who qualifies as a reliable witness who can shed light on murky or unsubstantiated specific events in a hotly-disputed ongoing conflict? Specifically, who qualifies as a credible witness when it comes to violent clashes at the Israel-Gaza border?
By Fred Maroun
There has been no evidence from an unbiased and credible source that Israel's actions in Gaza were disproportionate by the laws of war
I’m glad that J Street has once again changed its position and now admits that Hamas is a terrorist group, even if it had to be dragged kicking and screaming to acknowledge that obvious reality. Will they change again?
By Bassam Tawil
According Abbas's Ministry of Information, Israeli soldiers searching for terrorists is an "act of terrorism," but not the shooting of a pregnant woman and six other Israeli civilians standing at a bus stop.
Terrorism threatens both Israeli and Palestinian civilians. The coming weeks will see whether Israel and the Palestinian Authority will be able to contain an escalating situation and roll back the violence, or whether the region will slide into a new and dangerous phase.
Uniformed soldiers were nearby, but they aimed and fired at the pregnant woman. Do I need to add anything? This is who (or what) the Palestinian Arabs are
Shira Ish-Ran and her husband, Amichai, are mourning their baby son. They are in shock, broken in body and in spirit. But they have entered our hearts.
The terror attack happened near the Assaf junction, when the terrorist opened fire at a bus stop with civilians and soldiers
The U.S. government has provided military training and weapons—plus $1.5 billion in aid—to the government of Lebanon since 2006, the end of the war Hezbollah instigated against Israel.
By Sandy Eller
While State Orders Private Schools to Beef up Secular Curriculum, Official Regents Data Shows Public Schools Lagging Behind Yeshivas.
By Alex Traiman
The continuing cycle of violence against Israeli civilians will not disappear until Israel’s political leaders are ready to take responsibility for each and every Jewish life, and to defend each one as if it were the entire nation.
Like the previous terror tunnels that have been found on the Northern border, this one has also been booby-trapped by the IDF.
By Bassam Tawil
Hamas and the other Palestinian terrorist groups have interpreted the failure of the US-sponsored resolution as an internationally sanctioned license to continue killing Jews.
By Bennett Ruda
The world has no problem remaining quiet while Palestinian Arab leaders deny the historical bond between Jews and Jerusalem, when Jews openly celebrate their holidays and their ties to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, we are the ones being provocative.
Jewish foes of Israel want to redefine Jew-hatred in order to give anti-Zionists a pass. Decent people on the left and the right shouldn’t let them get away with it.
The IDF booby-trapped the tunnel, and if any Hezbollah terrorists enter it, they will be killed.
A “New York Times” column misunderstands the nature of the conflict the Festival of Lights commemorates.
While the operation has gotten off to a smooth start, the officer warned that the situation remains fragile.
And now the flame still burns, though it is flickering. Sixty-eight years is a long time for oil to burn, especially when the black oil next door seems so much more useful to the empires and republics across the sea. And the children of many of those who first lit the flame no longer see the point in that hoary old light.
By Bassam Tawil
The message that Iran is sending to Palestinian families is: "If you want money and a good life, send your children to die on the border with Israel." This is a message that is likely to reverberate far and wide among Arabs, well beyond the Palestinians.
When it comes to Israel and Jews, much of the West has regressed since November 1947 when Western democracies overwhelmingly voted in favor of welcoming the first Jewish state in 2000 years.
By Isi Leibler
Unless he has a dramatic strategy that he is about to reveal, the Gaza-Hamas situation may be his undoing. As far as our adversaries are concerned it is déjà vu. The super power has been outmaneuvered by the terrorists who can claim that they emerged as victors.
By Isi Leibler
By far the most obscene aspect of this mudslinging is the concerted Jewish attempt to portray Trump as tolerating Nazis and being an anti-Semite. This lie has been reproduced so frequently in recent months by progressive rabbis and Jewish lay leaders that it has become imbedded in the minds of many Democratic supporters.
Supporters of two-state solution have sown seeds for the de-legitimization of Israel
The fact that such a measure is seriously thought to be needed is an indication of the furious political/culture war that is being waged in Israel today, between a small avant-garde of academics, artists, and media people, and the rest of Israeli society.
"We the Palestinians have a great dream before us: To liberate Palestine from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea."
More important than achieving international recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is the necessity of ensuring Israeli sovereignty over the city itself.
Jewish victory over the adversarial Arab collective must be Israel’s overriding moral & operational concern. Facilitating its achievement should be the overriding challenge for Israel’s legal establishment
Five tectonic shifts have led to an earthquake of self-destruction for American Judaism
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
The NGOs in Ramallah are very radical, marked by hatred of Israel and the U.S., and they foment tension between Europe and the U.S.
European countries, who go out of their way to commemorate the tragedies they perpetrated against the Jewish People in the past, are constantly undermining the sovereignty of the Jewish state and its ability to defend itself.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Netanyahu is an elected official, after all, not a king. The Israeli public is his boss, not the other way around.
Israel has decided to accept an unending war of attrition – which implies sacrificing the citizens of southern Israel, who will get no peace. Hamas demonstrated its ability to create chaos with a carefully calibrated attack in the South and threatened to extend it to the heart of the country, our leaders allowed themselves to be deterred and backed down. Hamas is in control. Hamas decides when to fan the flames and when to turn them down.
the failed formula of self-rule for Gaza must be set aside—since any obstinate insistence on it will only continue to exacerbate the current situation and extend the misery it precipitates—for Arab and Jew alike.
The Netanyahu - Bennett meeting concluded with....
The recent round of fighting between Israel and Hamas was seemingly sparked by the exposure of an Israeli special forces team during a covert operation in Khan Yunis. The Hamas leadership, which apparently is not interested in war, nevertheless chose to respond by escalating to the very brink. Why has the Israeli government refrained (yet again) from instructing the IDF to settle conclusively the Hamas threat?
74 percent of Israelis disapproved of how Prime Minister Netanyahu dealt with the confrontation with Hamas.
The prime minister’s refusal to seek a final reckoning with Hamas generated criticism. But his decision to avoid war was sound policy.
Jerusalemites woke up this morning with a new mayor.
By Bassam Tawil
Qatar's $15 million cash grant has failed to stop Hamas from launching hundreds of rockets into Israel. On the contrary, the money has only emboldened Hamas and increased its appetite to continue its jihad to eliminate Israel. All the money in the world will not convince Hamas to abandon its ideology or soften its position toward Israel.
One man was killed and 2 women injured when a rocket hit a building in Ashkelon.
Israel could take a lesson from Donald Trump. You can’t recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, he was told, there will be unrest. You can’t move the embassy, they said, there will be riots. You can’t cut funding to UNRWA or demand that the PA stop paying terrorists. You can’t kill the Iran deal and re-impose sanctions. But he did all those things and the sky didn’t fall.
A bus was hit by a rocket.
“We knew he was an officer,” a neighbor said, “but no one knew what unit he served in, or that he was a Lieutenant Colonel.”
A second officer was wounded.
It is a big mistake on the part of some US Jews to politicize the fight against anti-Semitism. Keep partisan politics out of it! Israeli and Diaspora Jews should band together to draw strength from solidarity, jointly combat hate, and raise the flag of unafraid and vibrant Jewish life everywhere.
At least 6 terrorists have been reported killed in the IDF attack.
"Neither side is going to like everything written in the peace plan, and there will be a need to compromise."
By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman
We questioned if they are still considered Kedoshim, we questioned how we should respond; however, no one questioned the possibility that the Bris was fabricated and false!
The security of the world’s only Jewish state is by far the greatest security issue for world Jewry. Yet many left-wing Jews attack Israel, support many of those who wish to destroy Israel, or, at the very least, do nothing to strengthen Israel’s security.
Netanyahu has not been directly implicated, though he was questioned by the police in the matter.
Anti-Semitism is tribal. Those who hate Jews tend to be losers who are convinced of their own natural superiority and blame the Jews for their failure to achieve it.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The concern we have is that some new Democrats are not favorable for Israel, and the hope is that they will be marginalized.
By Bennett Ruda
When a tragedy that should lead Jews to unite instead leads Jews to turn against other Jews, that is worse than a tragedy; it is a disaster.
Liberal American Jews are free to disagree with President Trump. Yet, if they still consider themselves Jews, they owe Trump a measure of respect for his support for the Jewish state of Israel and cracking down on its enemies.
Ben & Jerry’s decision to fund a group whose leaders endorse Louis Farrakhan throws zero tolerance for hate out the window.
“Non-vaccinated children are exposed to various diseases and may lead to outbreaks of infectious diseases which could end in death.”
Using Jewish blood to gain religious equivalency and legitimacy from an Orthodox newspaper like The Jewish Press was immoral and reprehensible.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It can be more difficult for some than others, based upon how the brain processes stress, as well as previous exposures to traumatic incidents. Here are some suggestions on how to help.
If Bolsonaro goes through with the move, Brazil will become the third country to move its embassy to Jerusalem, following the United States and Guatemala.
How an out-of-context comment from Israel’s chief rabbi about a Pittsburgh synagogue doesn’t need to widen the Israel-Diaspora divide.
"At present, Russian advisers are preparing Syrian military personnel for combat work on these modern air defense systems."
Before the establishment of Israel, the destiny of millions of Jews was decided by the whims of Christian Europe and the Muslim world. What has changed dramatically is that today there is a powerful Jewish state.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
Jordan has now renewed its request on this matter as part of a growing rivalry with Turkey over exerting an influence on the Old City and the Temple Mount.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Issues related to Israel have come up on the state level, such as efforts to pass anti-BDS measures, which have been approved by 25 states in recent years.
Scholar Ruth Wisse wrote, that anti-Semitism is the most successful ideology of the 20th century—a virus that morphed from fascism to Nazism to communism and then Islamism. The continuation of this trend in the 21st century has nothing to do with Trump, and everything to do with the fact that Jews remain a convenient scapegoat for extremists of all political and religious stripes.
By Alex Traiman
Much of American Jewry’s primarily liberal communal leadership has taken vocal odds with policies of Israel’s conservative coalition government relating to key religious issues, the protection of minorities living in Israel and an inability to reach a peace agreement with Palestinians. And many Israelis have taken odds with the progressively divisive tone of American Jewish criticisms.
While their unconventional approaches isolated them, Kahane’s Jewish pride and assertiveness on the one hand, and Carlebach’s warmth and music on the other, were eventually co-opted by more conventional outreach venues
“It is called the grand opening for innovation and peace center because the idea is that peace and innovation absolutely go together, innovation is an engine of peace, not only of progress.”
Israel has been reluctant to use massive force against terrorist enemies hiding in civilian urban areas like Gaza and it increasingly focuses more on fighting anti-Israel propaganda than defeating its adversaries in the battle field.
November 6, 2026 
