There’s a certain contempt that’s implicit in presuming to enlighten other people as to what they should care about and what is in their best interests.
Netanyahu vowed to "never stop advocating for peace with the Iranian people one day."
“The Palestinian Authority transfers millions of shekels a year to terrorists who killed Israeli civilians," said Minister Naftali Bennett.
While the media makes a fuss over Prince William’s visit to Israel, the comings and goings of the controversial presidential son-in-law are far more important.
Carmel Shama-HaCohen: “We must not ignore the new spirit that is blowing from UNESCO."
By JNi.Media
MK Michal Rozin (Meretz) commented: “This bill essentially grants the rabbinical court international jurisdiction. This is a new invention – an international court for Jews."
By Bassam Tawil
If Kushner and Greenblatt wish to learn more about the true ambitions of the Palestinians, they would do well to take in a sermon at a mosque on some Friday or stop into a Palestinian. They would see that no peace plan in the world can, at the moment, counter the poison that is injected daily into the hearts and minds of the Palestinians and their children.
By Bennett Ruda
The US and Jordan are purported allies-arguably our second strongest ally in the Mid East after Israel. No wonder talking about cooperation against terrorism is on the agenda. But will the Jordan extraditing terrorist Ahlam Tamimi be raised?
Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu issued a veiled rebuke to the United Kingdom Sunday less than 48 hours before.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The next Labour government will recognize Palestine as a state as one step towards a genuine two-state solution..."
By JNi.Media
Judge Vardi suggested that the Tel Aviv municipality cancel its decision to forbid the separate-sexes event, and interrupted the hearing to allow the municipality to consult on the matter.
Syrian Rebels report that the Russians are providing air support to Assad's forces attacking in southern Syria.
The family claims it was only a traffic accident, and not a terror attack against the 4 IDF soldiers.
Trump’s critics prefer to attack him, rather than acknowledge that he was right to withdraw from a Human Rights Council that engages in anti-Semitic bias against Israel.
By JNi.Media
They are seriously concerned over in Ramallah about President Trump's apparent plan to go over their heads to the people and give them what they need: prosperity.
The arrest of former Minister Gonen Segev, on charges of treason, constitute a regrettable vindication of my assessment of the man – over 25 years ago.
By Fred Maroun
Brave words from an Arab who finds much in the Arab world disgusting, and much to be admired in Israel
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While young people were preparing for their flights to Israel, they were asked about certain issues and policies, with their answers recorded.
By JNi.Media
Both Israel and Jordan fear that Iranian militias reach the border and become assimilated by the Assad regime.
The more Israel refrains from self-defense because of fear of legal consequences, the more she will be threatened with such consequences. The cycle must be broken, both because it prevents us from acting and because it broadcasts weakness to our enemies.
The IDF stressed in a statement that there was no danger of intelligence information from the aircraft leaking to the Syrians.
"Hamas' goal is to have Israel kill as many Gazans as possible so that the headlines always begin, and often end, with the body count. Hamas deliberately sends women and children to the front line, while their own fighters hide behind these human shields." — Alan Dershowitz, Esq.
By JNi.Media
Reportedly, as many as four Jewish couples got married on the Temple Mount over the past 18 months, despite the Israel Police and the Jordanian Waqf rules.
The examples of Iran and BDS show that when a person or organization claims to be pro-Palestinian, it must be asked if that is really their defining characteristic, or if their professed concern for the Palestinians masks their opposition to Israel.
By Zvika Klein
An inside look at 'IfNotNow' trying to influence the younger generation of American Jewry and bring 'the end of the occupation.'
By BESA CENTER
The simultaneous presence in Russia of the Saudi and Iranian teams for the 2018 World Cup is likely to shine a spotlight on the covert wars between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Iran as well as on a related dispute over 2022 World Cup host Qatar, which did not qualify for this year’s tournament. Tensions will be present even if the kingdom and the Islamic Republic fail to meet face to face on the pitch.
By JNi.Media
Bishop said has been in communication with the PA Foreign Minister to make sure the money her country sends Ramallah—an estimated $43 million—will only be spent on good things.
Last week, Hezbollah claimed the Russian made anti-aircraft system was being deployed on the Golan Heights to block Israeli attacks.
By JNi.Media
At this point, those tall piles of soil are gone from the Temple Mount, replaced by terraced stones. The crime paid. All evidence of a Jewish Temple have been permanently eliminated.
By Bassam Tawil
The basis of "The Fayyad Plan" (Official title: "Palestine: Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State") was, and remains, the creation of a de facto state -- without the need for negotiation with Israel -- through facts on the ground in areas under full Israeli administrative and security administration.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Russian request also places constraints on Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is dependent on Russia in his fight against the rebels.
The Hamas attack would coincide with Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
By JNi.Media
The report pins on Israel the full responsibility for the dying Gaza infants crisis, because it has imposed a strict blockade on the Hamas ruled Gaza Strip.
By Guy Millière
Netanyahu rightly said that Palestinian leaders, whoever they may be, do not want peace with Israel, but "peace without Israel". What instead could take place would be peace without the Palestinian leaders. What could also take place would be peace without the Iranian mullahs.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It will continue to reinforce pro-Zionist, pro-Israel perspectives at its summer camps, despite a request to push the "Palestinian" narrative.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It is “unthinkable” that terrorist groups are allowed to use Twitter “to radicalize, recruit, incite and spread propaganda,” Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan tells Twitter’s CEO.
Israel foiled 250 suicide bombings, abductions and live fire attacks.
By JNi.Media
Attorney Marganit Levy, representing the Justice Ministry, told the committee: "The Administrative Affairs Court has more ability than the High Court of Justice to clarify factual matters."
By Mida
Terminological warfare. Word choice affects how one views events. When it comes to Israel, the distortion is rampant, a concerted effort to create an anti-Israel bias and resentment.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The concert producer received a notice from the Spanish town, saying the decision was made for political reasons not to hold Israeli activities there.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Ultimately, these textbooks are a major impediment to the possibility of peace. They deny young Palestinians the chance of a violence-free and peaceful future..."
The move comes ahead of Assad's planned offensive against the Syria rebels in Syria's south.
Live feeds from from Ari Fuld, Sara Haetzni-Cohen, Josh Hasten, and others in Netiv Ha'Avot.
These two youth have the honor of being the first two people arrested at the protests in Netiv Ha'Avot on Tuesday morning.
The privation in Gaza is not the cause of the enmity towards the Jewish state. Quite the opposite! It is the enmity towards the Jewish state that is the cause of the privation in Gaza.
The political divide between Israeli and American Jews has widened considerably, according to a poll published by the American Jewish Committee on Sunday.
By Bassam Tawil
There are two important factors that the international community needs to notice regarding the fire kites that the Palestinians are sending to Israel from the Gaza Strip. First: those who are launching the kites are making it clear that their ultimate goal is to kill as many Jews as possible and bring about the obliteration of Israel. Second: the Palestinians see all Jews living in Israel as "settlers.
By JNi.Media
The IAF F-35 "Adir" planes penetrated Iran's airspace, circled high above Tehran, Karajrak, Isfahan, Shiraz and Bandar Abbas – and photographed Iran's air defense system.
By Ben Cohen
Israel’s leaders need to think strategically about every major event that is staged in the country, with the first principle being “do no harm.”
Female Gaza Paramedic, Human Shield, Hamas Rioter, Terrorist Supporter
The Joint Arab List has announced it plans to petition the European Broadcasting Union to cancel the Eurovision Song Contest, scheduled to take place in Jerusalem.
Opposition from Jewish groups to a Supreme Court decision defending the rights of a believer is a discouraging retreat from principle.
Four leading candidates for Jerusalem mayor rejected a demand Monday by Health Minister Yaakov Litzman to close the city’s Shuk Mahane Yehuda open air market at night.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
This week’s security escalation showed that something in the balance struck between Israel and Hamas has shifted.
By JNi.Media
"The defeat of the Arabs in the June 1967 war, which was followed by the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1970, constituted the decisive blow that ended nationalism."
By Ben Cohen
Both concepts are built around the Palestinian logic that Israel is the eternal enemy. That is why Israel’s creation was a “catastrophe.” But what precisely was the “setback”?
The funds will come from the tax Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority under the terms of the 1994 Paris Accords signed between the sides as part of the Oslo Peace Accords.
Watch the Celebrate Israel in NY Parade
The solution for Gaza is not, and cannot be, its reconstruction, but its deconstruction and the generously funded humanitarian relocation and rehabilitation of the non-belligerent Gazans to third party countries, outside the “circle of violence”.
12:40 AM: Rocket Alerts begin sounding...
By JNi.Media
The IDF, at this stage, is not necessarily disputing the PLO story, declaring instead: "The findings of the investigations are transferred to the Judge Advocate General's Office."
By JNi.Media
The satisfaction with Netanyahu and Liberman is reflected in the survey's snapshot of the election results, if said elections had been held today.
The PA maintains the fiction of large groups of terrorists fasting, by switching off between prisoners every few days.
"In this thought provoking article Varda Meyers Epstein touches on the choices made by two very different societies – the choice to hate vs the choice to serve, to open doors and strive for something better. " Forest Rain Marcia
Russia is widely believed to have agreed not to interfere with Israeli military action taken against Iranian forces and Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters in Syria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The establishment of a new community is a message of Zionism and strength in the face of terrorism,” says Housing Minister Yoav Gallant.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians' problem is not with a settlement or a checkpoint or a fence. They have a problem with the existence of Israel in any borders. Palestinians have still not come to terms with Israel's right to exist, period; this is the essence of the Israeli-Arab conflict. They see Israel as one big settlement that needs to be ripped out.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The government should resume targeted assassinations of terrorists, the public security minister says, after Gaza terrorists fire 130-plus mortars at Israeli border communities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dan Propper, a 78-year-old Israeli Czech businessman, was named honorary consul.
“We have to take responsibility for our future!” challenged Sara Haetzni-Cohen, a scion of a prominent Gush Emunim family. “If the Land of Israel belongs to us, let’s act like it!”
By JNi.Media
"Today, twenty years since the civilian settlement was established at an important strategic point, we are advancing one more step towards normalization and equal rights for the citizens of Judea and Samaria."
It launched a large-scale mortar-shell attack two days after losing three of its armed members to an Israeli airstrike in response to a gun attack on an IDF unit patrolling the Gazan border. Is Palestinian Islamic Jihad responding to the killing of its operatives or acting under Iranian instructions?
Some of the rockets hit inside Israeli communities, others were intercepted by Iron Dome.
The 'identity politics' that supposedly grew out of concern for human rights then turns around and negates those rights. This supposed progress turns back time, hurting us all.
By JNi.Media
There must be some twisted UN logic to appointing the country with the most recent experience in using chemical weapons on civilians to the forum that tries to ban their use in the first place.
Elaph reports that Israel and Iran held secret negotiations in Jordan.
Labor party Chairman Avi Gabbay wants to stick with Labor's failed formula.
A new survey of Israeli Jews shows strong feelings of solidarity with the Diaspora, but little interest in listening to the views of American Jews. It should cause soul-searching in both communities.
The lawsuit will be the first civilian response to incendiary kite terrorism.
A troubling side effect of the Zionist enterprise is that 70 years after the State of Israel came into being, a wedge has grown between Israelis and the Diaspora, driven by guilt and presumptions of moral superiority.
By JNi.Media
"Once a binding definition of the settlement blocs has been determined, Israeli law must be applied to them in full," MK Cabel demands.
Nothing could expose the true intent of the Judeocidal riots on Gaza border more than the Nazi-style swastikas on incendiary kites flown into Israel to set Jewish property (& if possible, Jewish people) ablaze.
By JNi.Media
Clearly, the entire affair had been about the suspect getting arrested so that he would be able to distribute the contraband phones among six lucky imprisoned terrorists.
By Bassam Tawil
The Palestinians are hoping to extort protection money from the Americans. It is like saying, "You see what will happen to you if you stop funding me? It could always get worse for you. I suggest that you restore my accountability-free funding, and perhaps I will see to it that you do not get hurt."
"I believe we would be able to get our residents quickly and safely into shelters. But I don’t know what would happen after a day or two."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Even if Mahmoud Abbas recovers and leaves the hospital, it is clear that he is living on borrowed time.
Despite 70 years since its rebirth, much of international diplomacy still treats Israel’s existence as if it was a bargaining chip that requires Israeli concessions. It is time to end this.
The location of the bunker is a secret, and only a limited group of people have permission to enter it.
By JNi.Media
Two weeks after the most extensive Israeli assault on Syria since the Yom Kippur War, Major General Norkin said, "The Adir planes are already operational and are flying operational missions."
By Sean Savage
A growing partisan divide was on display this week in reaction to the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and two days of consecutive violence in the Gaza Strip. The question is: How far will one sector on the left continue to cause fissures?
This is the third foreign embassy to open in Jerusalem in a week.
By JNi.Media
A few hours earlier, the Bosphorous Observer reported that a large Syrian cargo plane left Tehran for Damascus.
Misery in Gaza is not in Israel’s interest. The problem is that Hamas has thus far shown no interest in such a transformation from Islamist terrorist group into responsible government of Gaza.
Chag Sameach-Happy Shavuout!
Recent surveys show that most Gazans still support Hamas, so they aren't likely to use this opportunity to leave Gaza forever.
By Isi Leibler
Although right-wing racist anti-Semitism has made headlines, the real threat emanates from the viciously anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic Left and the growing numbers of Muslim extremists.
Air Force officials say they'll bar civilian pesticide spray planes from coming within six kilometers of the border after bullets from Gaza hit Sderot on Wednesday. Israeli farms say, “This means all our crops will be lost."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Haniyeh returned to Gaza, Hamas gave an order ... and miraculously, this spontaneous protest by a public that could not handle the situation any more dissipated.”