By JNi.Media
Prosecutor Rommel noted the huge difference between the US legal requirement for deportation, versus the German requirement for capital crime proceedings.
The key word for understanding all much of the world's madness is “identity.” We are experiencing a war against all identity and all essence. It is a world war, but here in Israel it is the most extreme.
"Moving the embassy to Israel’s capital ... brings reality to a negotiation that, honestly, for decades, has been conducted in an air of unreality."
Erekat said it would not be realistic to talk about peace without designating eastern Jerusalem as the Palestinian Authority capital.
By JNi.Media
The group called on IDF soldiers to defy orders to act against demonstrators along the Gaza Strip border fence.
Today many of Israel's elite are “post-Zionists,” citizens of the world. They are embarrassed by Zionist patriotism. How else to explain why they oppose the Nation-State Law which does nothing more than express the idea that the Jewish people have a collective right of self-determination?
Israeli flags were much in evidence at the Druze community’s protest against the nation-state law the previous week. Those demonstrators, Druze and Jews alike, considered themselves proud Israelis. By banning Israeli flags, the Arab community’s protest sent the opposite message.
Intriguingly, only when non-Muslims are in control of Jerusalem do Muslims seem to remember the city. History shows, Muslims have never attached real significance to it, never claiming Jerusalem as the capital of any country or empire.
By JNi.Media
The Health Ministry's Director General said there are 242 other patients suspected of contracting Leptospirosis.
From recent reports on planned Israeli responses to events in Gaza, one might be excused for thinking that the late Shimon Peres had returned from the hereafter, reincarnated in the form of the allegedly hawkish Avigdor Liberman
By JNi.Media
The rally was piggybacked—against the expressed wishes of the organizers—by leftist groups.
By Bassam Tawil
Why is the UN apparently prepared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the Gaza Strip while keeping Hamas in power and even allowing it to become stronger? Why is the UN being allowed to play the role of savior of Hamas?
“The combination of our strong defense capabilities and our strong economy will increase Israel’s equity."
"The forces did not act out of a desire for revenge but to try and foil [Goldin's] kidnapping."
By Mida
With all the Jewish People have been through, you would expect now an unshakable moral commitment toward the Jewish state. Instead, Israel is held to a double standard by the world.
The Jewish state is truly under siege. Not from the Hamasniks of Gazavic but from a coalition of the Israeli Left, Arab citizens and other non-Jewish minorities, European and American-funded NGOs, and liberal American Jewish organizations. Did I leave anyone out?
By JNi.Media
These warships will be tasked with protecting Israel's Economic Exclusion Zone with Israel's offshore natural gas rigs.
By JNi.Media
Arison's is the latest in a series of investigations against seniors at Shikun U'Binui on suspicion of involvement in a worldwide corruption scandal.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The kite caused a power outage and was removed from the high-voltage lines using a crane.
Liberman’s appointment as Defense Minister ignited expectations of a qualitatively different approach to that of his predecessor—one discernibly more robust and resolute… Sadly, this was not to be
By JNi.Media
The eldest of 14 children, Rashida Tlaib was born to working-class Palestinian immigrants in Detroit, Michigan.
Europe's policies have systematically undermined any prospects of peace in the Middle East. Instead of promoting a conclusion of the conflict, Europe has perpetuated it for ideological and commercial reasons.
By JNi.Media
Im Tirtzu activists recorded Israeli Arabs shouting, "With spirit and blood we'll redeem you, Palestine," "Rest in peace, martyr, we continue in your path," "Israel is a terrorist state," and "An Arab Palestine from the sea to the River Jordan."
By JNi.Media
Hundreds of protesters blocked the Azrieli junction in Tel Aviv, carrying signs reading "There's a ceasefire but the south is on fire."
By Isi Leibler
The reality is that this law was designed to ratify classical Zionism, reject post-Zionism and reiterate that Israel is a Jewish state. Not a single clause can be construed as racist,
I see the law as absolutely necessary to protect the Jewish state against the post-Zionist elite and the European-funded NGOs. But I also see the reaction of the Druze to the law as a major failure of our leadership.
By JNi.Media
The Struggle Headquarters propaganda maliciously misrepresents the law, using a false comparison between two Border Guard officers, one a Jew, the other a Druze.
By CAMERA
One can debate a law while presenting the facts accurately--that is the role of a journalist. Both news stories and opinion columns should be based on accurate facts without overstatement or distortion. Unfortunately, many in the mainstream media have failed.
If critics of the Nationality Bill have real concerns for the rights of non-Jewish minorities, the patriotic way to address them would be via a new Basic Law to protect them, not raucously denouncing the bill as “racist”
Individual rights, Netanyahu said, are anchored in many of the state's laws, but not Jewish national rights.
By JNi.Media
Apart from the phone harassment, Rabbi Eliyahu and his family are also exposed to threats on the Internet, including shocking wishes and slander.
By CAMERA
Before the terms of the proposed peace plan were even announced, the PA, in their own words, launched a “national campaign to thwart the Deal of the Century.”
International sport events claim to be universal symbols of unity and peaceful coexistence, except when it comes to Israel, where the world tolerates Arab racist attitudes towards Israelis.
The ISIS terrorists were armed with explosive belts and AK-47s.
By JNi.Media
During the hearing, the squatters' attorneys made it clear that their clients were not willing to move too far from the current location of their shantytown, at most "a hundred or two hundred meters."
By Bassam Tawil
Some Israeli Arab leaders want Israel to disappear as a Jewish homeland. If these leaders are so unhappy in Israel perhaps they should consider leaving for another Arab country. Why do they refrain from doing so? Because it's in the Jewish homeland that they and their children can live and thrive.
By JNi.Media
Not surprisingly, a full 84% of the Arab public thinks there was no need to legislate the Nationality Law.
If Israel declaring itself to be Jewish is wrong, how can the Arab and Muslim nations of the world declaring that they are Muslim and Arabic be right? The double standard is ubiquitous and has only one possible answer: There’s nothing wrong with an Arab and Muslim country, but something wrong with a Jewish country.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Iran is a state that finances and carries out terrorism,” said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president and founder of the Israel Law Center, Shurat HaDin.
The party list features names from a variety of sides inside Israeli society.
By JNi.Media
The IAF purchases will include a fighter squadron, a transport helicopter squadron, a cargo squadron, and six refueling planes. And the winners will be decided very soon.
Though the White Helmets themselves failed to acknowledge who saved them, the U.S., Canada, UK, and EU all acknowledged Israel’s help. It would be appreciated if they let Israel in addition to defending others, was permitted to defend itself.
Druze MKs argue that the law violates fundamental rights such as the right to equality, and doesn’t give equal status to non-Jewish minorities.
The boat will be sold and the money transferred to victims of Arab terror.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly defended the new Jewish Nation-State Basic Law that was voted in last week.
Jews are also commanded in the Torah not to wrong or oppress a stranger “for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” But what if the strangers in question want to turn your own country into Egypt?
By JNi.Media
Bahloul will presumably be replaced by Robert Tiviaev, a Russian Jewish oleh.
By JNi.Media
Haniyeh's choice for his plea for is interesting, since the Kuwaiti and Moroccan leaders are among the least sympathetic to the plight of his people in the Arab world.
By JNi.Media
Regev's new move will affect swimming, judo and other sports associations that hold their Israeli championships on Shabbat.
If everyone is considered a refugee, then in the end, nobody will be. If refugees are a limited class of people, there’s some hope that other countries can be persuaded to take them in.
By JNi.Media
From a traditional Jewish point of view, we have no way of deciding with certainty that the messianic era will or will not be ushered in by a blood moon eclipse.
By JNi.Media
"All Islamic State terrorists and missile systems were destroyed by a pin-point retaliation strike of the Israel Defense Forces warplanes and artillery."
If the Trump administration is waving the white flag on its hopes for a fix to Gaza and an Israel-Palestinian peace plan, it’s a sign of realism, not amateurism.
By JNi.Media
Last November, the chief of staff refused PM Netanyahu's request to appoint Winter as his military secretary; and last June, Winter's name was absent from the list of promoted senior officers.
By JNi.Media
The leaders of Hamas and the PA are responsible for a series of human rights violations, torture and ongoing abuse of the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank.
Anger about the new nation-state law is misplaced. Concern over the rabbinate flexing its muscles and contempt for the Diaspora is not.
A Syrian Sukhoi warplane crossed over into Israel, flying two kilometers within Israeli territory
Two incidents of violence and vandalism by TIPH observers against Jews were exposed on video in the past week.
By Paul Gherkin
An essential breakdown of the necessary to understand the 'controversial' new Basic Law called “The Nation-State of the Jewish People,”
Why have the Arab nations have allowed the issue of Palestinian refugees to continue? One simple reason which I call the First Principle of Arab Leadership: it is always more important to hurt Jews than to help Arabs.
Netanyahu approved their passage through Israel as an important humanitarian gesture.
Gaza terrorists and the IDF are exchanging fire.
By JNi.Media
Two helium balloons attached to matches and incendiary substance were found in the backyard of a house in the Gilo neighborhood of southern Jerusalem.
By Mida
As long as the Palestinians do not stop their industry of death, the EU must freeze any aid it gives them.
The Goldins asked the EU to punish Hamas for refusing to divulge information about the fallen and living hostages held by Hamas.
MK Miki Zohar says the law addresses concerns that a talented prime minister would rather work in the private sector.
By Josh Hasten
The strategy was introduced to the court by the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center’ NGO on behalf of two Israeli families (Weinstein and Gavish) who for years have been involved in various lawsuits against Hamas for the murder of relatives.
By Bassam Tawil
Imagine world response had the Chief Rabbi of Israel issued a decree banning Jews from doing business with Muslims. But in the instance of the Palestinian mufti and his superiors in Ramallah, everything seems to be fine -- once again, the international community turns a blind eye to the Palestinian leaders' apartheid and their terrorizing of their own people.
once you remove the straw man of anti-Semitism, you’re left with the double standard in all its glory: Israel alone has no right to host authoritarian leaders important to its interests, even as other Western democracies routinely host worse leaders with less justification
Why the Knesset’s efforts to define the Jewish state should be influenced by Diaspora objections.
IDF Central Command announced that Israeli residents along the Gaza border can leave their bomb shelters and return to life as normal.
By Ben Cohen
The country that will be most damaged will be Ireland itself. See how many Irish politicians are willing to sacrifice the jobs and livelihoods of Irish citizens for the gesture politics of boycotting Israel.
Two mortars had hit the town, one scoring a direct hit on a house, the other hit the courtyard of a synagogue.
Today, the IDF carried out the largest wave of daytime strikes since Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014.
By JNi.Media
Lt. Gen. Eizenkot said: "Sharon is doing his job with exceptional skill, with good common sense and with courage, and I wish that all of us uphold his example."
While it appears reluctant to mobilize Hezbollah against Israel right now and risk a full-scale regional war, Iran is continuing to work on securing a military position in Syria to use for future aggression.
By Bruce Abramson and Jeff Ballabon
With President Trump presenting Judge Brett Kavanaugh as his choice for the soon-to-be vacated seat on the United States Supreme Court, it is important to consider the future of the court--and how it relates to Jews.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Apparently, no one wants or seems to be able to remove the Iranians—neither from the border with Israel nor from Syria proper.
We have things backwards. We are the stronger power, and thus Hamas should be the ones begging for negotiations. We are not deterring them. They are deterring us
By Mida
The “Israel Victory Paradigm” requires the abandonment of the Oslo concept, the concept that peace and security will be achieved through two states between the Sea and the Jordan River.
“The thousands of Righteous Gentiles were not the rule. They were the exception that proved the rule.”
By JNi.Media
"You are a philosopher, you only know how to talk and leave the doing to the rest of us," Kahlon told Netanyahu bitterly.
Netanyahu never cared much about settlements, but he needed U.S. support to convince a pro-settler cabinet that restraint paid.
By JNi.Media
Flug accuses the Finance Minister of sheer populism: Mechir Lemishtaken costs the public coffers billions of dollars and creates harmful distortions to both the subsidized and free housing market.
When Gazan Arabs prepare fire-balloons, our hairsplitting legal advisors prohibit the IDF from shooting at them so that no legal rule is undermined, Heaven forbid. But when it comes to the hilltop youth, then “the roof will fall on our heads” (Bennett) if we do not throw all their basic human rights and every possible law to the wind.
"If the current situation continues ... it could cause a permanent change in the landscape. That means very extensive ecological damage."
The three tried too hard to convince the police to quickly let them pass through the checkpoint, which made the police very suspicious.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It’s unpleasant that the other side is hitting us with primitive weapons such as kites, but we must also understand that it’s all our enemies have left. we have faced and defeated far worse.
By Alex Traiman
Both the U.S. and Israeli laws to offset funds paid to out terrorists represent the first major steps in holding the P.A. accountable for nearly three decades of incitement and terror financing. The passage of both laws is a testament to the relentless pursuit of activists Sander Gerber and Stuart Force.
The US Embassy Independence Day Celebration in Israel.
Outrageous: US judge blames the victim of terrorism...
By JNi.Media
“Joint teams from Israel and one of the neighboring countries are de-seeding the clouds entering Iran."
The key point that the West cannot grasp is that Palestinian rejectionism is at source a fanatical Islamic religious movement. No amount of Palestinian propaganda can change that truth.
By dvora
When Christians in Iraq were exiled, murdered or persecuted en masse by the so-called Islamic State, the West stood silent -- as if these Christians were the agents of Western colonialism and not the legitimate and oldest inhabitants of the Middle East, long before the Arabs converted to Islam.
For young men, a key driver of terror attacks was the knowledge that they would be lionized by their own society. “The suicide bomber does not act out of suffering or inferior economic status, but rather out of a desire to win social recognition.”
Iranian sources say as many as 4 civilians may have been killed.
By JNi.Media
As many as 160,000 Syrians have fled the war zone to the Jordanian and Israeli borders, where neither country is prepared to let them in.
By Bassam Tawil
On the very day that the prince was in Ramallah, the PA repeated its pledge to continue funding terrorists and their families. One hopes that Prince William enjoyed his visit to Ramallah and that he asks his advisors to translate for him what Palestinian leaders are saying to their own people in Arabic.
By JNi.Media
"Israel is working to create a region without violence in Syria, and possibly the region will include unarmed Syrian fighters, and police who be allowed to operate without heavy weapons."
By JNi.Media
In March, the charges against him were expanded, to include hate crimes.