Prayers can be said for Yehoshua Aharon Tuvia ben Rachel.
By dvora
Great challenges are yet before us, but as I view the path we have taken together up until now, I am full of hope and faith in our marvelous people, our heroic soldiers and in the knowledge that this time as well, with God’s help, the Eternal One of Israel will not lie.”
Bashar Assad’s fall is not an opportunity for the United States to return to nation-building or foolish interventions in wars where there are no good guys.
By Guy Millière
"We have become the Gaza of Europe. I will NOT accept that. NEVER. The authorities will be held accountable for their failure to protect the Israeli citizens. Never again". — Dutch MP Geert Wilders, X, November 8, 2024.
Even though Western governments aren’t likely to officially turn on the Jewish people, they are not equipped to protect us either.
Peace in Islam means war
This is expected to pave the way for major settlement expansions, infrastructure development, and long-term growth in strategically significant areas.
I am deeply thankful for our army as a remarkable unifier of our people. It forges immediate bonds and unites our entire nation into one family.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
Iran's fear of an Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities is driving it to project a willingness for dialogue with the Trump administration
Rockets into Roses creator Yaron Bob, who lives close to the Gaza border, creates mind-boggling artwork using rockets that Hamas fires at him.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The IDF had reportedly known about the top-secret, camouflaged facility in eastern Lebanon for some time.
The ceasefire with Hezbollah won’t ensure the safety of northern Israel. But could anyone else have resisted U.S. heat for so long and achieved as much?
Israeli soldiers destroyed Hezbollah infrastructure in the areas of the Litani River and Saluki district of southern Lebanon.
By Max Gelber
"As a legal matter, establishing a pattern of violence as a genocide requires demonstrating intent. Israel’s campaign of self-defense doesn’t qualify."
Offering to negotiate with Islamic terrorists is a statement of weakness.
By Max Gelber
The exact details of the agreement are unclear, and the reports indicate that there are still some sticking points.
By Max Gelber
The three could face execution.
Pope Francis recently implied that Israel was committing “genocide”
"Obama broke the tradition where an outgoing president doesn't initiate significant new policies during the transition."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
IDF Maj. (res.) Ze'ev Erlich was a renowned scholar of the Land of Israel.
Hamas operatives however still loot the aid trucks with impunity.
By Max Gelber
Reports indicate that Biden may level further sanctions against Israeli individuals and organizations, including ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir.
Iran's neighbours would be relieved, its captive citizens could then be free to choose leaders better aligned with their aspirations, and a liberated Iran might even join the Abraham Accords....
If the priority of Israeli progressives were to rescue the hostages, they would demand that Hamas release them. "The slogan for freeing the hostages," wrote British journalist Douglas Murray, "... should never have been 'Being them home.' It should be 'Give them back.' Now."
By Max Gelber
While discussions of a ceasefire in the north continue, the IDF is proceeding with its counterterrorism operations in Lebanon.
By Max Gelber
AG Baharav-Miara wants to "destroy the Land of Israel," Rabbi Hirsch declared.
The past 13 months have taught us that the world respects us and fears us when we show strength, might, and Jewish pride, NOT when we cower, apologize, or take orders from others.
Liberal Jewish groups are appalled by the prospect of an administration that is unabashedly pro-Israel. That says more about them than it does about him.
Biden was supposed to be different. Pundits are calling him the Democratic Party's last unabashedly Zionist president.
I recently read a story about an Israeli student at Harvard who was asked by a university employee if Jews orchestrated 9/11. This isn’t some random street in the middle of nowhere – it’s one of the most elite institutions in the world.
America is becoming a third-world mess because we are being run by the very same foreign elites who run the third world, who know nothing except a shoddy secondhand Marxism and who are animated by petty tribalism and ancient resentments of British and American rule.
"He loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him."
By Paul Gherkin
Jihadi groups are not just waging a war on Israel but also on America.
By Ruthie Blum
An Israeli broadcast journalist reporting on world leaders who condemned the pogrom in Amsterdam paused after quoting tweets by U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to ask a snide rhetorical question. “And guess who hasn’t responded to the antisemitic attacks in The Netherlands?” she said, sneering with unadulterated schadenfreude. “Donald Trump,” […]
In this space last week, I correctly predicted a decisive win by Donald Trump in the US presidential elections and warned of a perilous transition in US-Israel relations in the lame duck days of the outgoing administration.
This wasn’t an election. It was a revolution.
By Max Gelber
Despite his achievements, dedication, and bravery, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi informed Winter in May 2024 of the end of his service in the IDF.
Being Jewish is not merely about culture, religion, or ethnicity; it’s about being a nation – the Am Hanivchar – the chosen nation.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
After Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, Israel, by necessity, has become the Middle East’s strong horse in its ongoing battle against the Iranian regime and its terror proxies.
If we don’t want to end up like the Third World, it’s time for us to stop being ruled by it.
By Max Gelber
"The truth must be told – there will be no deal now. Not a small one, not a big one, not a crumb."
Harris supporters are coming at me hard. The Democratic Party liberals harass, hector, bully, and try to shame me--ceaselessly. Their behavior reminds me of vampiric-like cult members who are hellbent on converting everyone to their point of view. They live on converts.
By Max Gelber
The IDF is building a series of outposts along the Beeri Corridor.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
UNRWA employees took part in the October 7 massacre and many of its workers are Hamas operatives.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The key is to distance Hezbollah beyond the Litani and to respond firmly against any action against us,” Netanyahu said on a visit to the north.
By Max Gelber
In Georgia, Jews and Arabs represent about 1% of the electorate each.
In its dying days the Biden-Harris administration will be chomping at the bit to act on its most “progressive” impulses: To clobber insolent Israel and to reset US Mideast policy away from Israel.
The IDF confirmed that the operation was carried out by Shayetet 13 - Israel's Navy Seals.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The White House has warned the Islamic Republic not to respond to Israel’s Oct. 26 airstrikes.
The bill strips entities that transfer funds associated with terror — including the Palestinian Authority’s stipends to imprisoned terrorists and their families — from approaching the High Court.
Can any rational person compare what Hitler did when he initiated the most disastrous war in history to what former president Trump accomplished during his four years in office?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The agreement calls for the withdrawal of Hezbollah and other terror groups from Southern Lebanon within 60 days after signing.
The Israeli government encourages countries to establish embassies in the Israeli capital.
The site even contained a loading dock for cargo. Naim Qassem will replace Hassan Nasrallah as Hezbollah's top leader.
Israel advised UNIFIL to withdraw for their own safety, as they have been acting as human shields for Hezbollah.
By Paul Gherkin
The current war on Jews in the United States and Israel, home to 85% of world Jewry, was fueled by President Obama's push to elevate the Muslim world, and the Islamic Republic of Iran in particular.
Iran (good), Israel (bad), Trump (worse)--read all about it in NYT
92 of 120 MKS overwhelmingly voted to bar UNRWA
When one's enemy has no war aim other than genocide, and has said so consistently for 90 years, there is most likely zero probability of a diplomatic route to peace.
If this year of beheadings and ballistic missiles has taught us anything, it is that Islamic trash talk is real. American platitudes are mere sound bites.
Were it not for the Jews and their Bible, there would be no Christianity – and therefore no Western civilization. The abolition of slavery was led by Bible-believing Christians. The Bible, not Aristotle, was their moral inspiration.
The Biden-Harris White House Owes Bibi an Apology
Hezbollah has a bunker full of cash and gold hidden under the Al-Sahel Hospital in Beirut - approximately half-a-billion dollars worth.
Alone, small nation champions a catatonically suicidal West
By Guy Millière
Sinwar wants everyone to be a martyr—except for him." Now he appears to want to have discussions again on the condition that the Israelis will not try to kill him during the negotiations on a deal
Failure to comply "may have implications for U.S. policy," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reportedly wrote.
Last year, Israelis thought that life would mostly go on the way it had. Now they know it cannot.
As we stand before G-d this Yom Kippur with the memory of October 7 fresh in our hearts, we must recognize our responsibility to actively shape how this chapter will be remembered.
By Bassam Tawil
There is no excuse for celebrating murder. A society that celebrates murder will never be a partner for peace. True peace will only come when Palestinian leaders values their people's lives more than celebrating the murder of Jews.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the Lebanese people to take back their country from Hezbollah and Iran.
When someone criticizes Israel, we need only ask: “Are they OK with killing Jews?”
The targeted maneuvers follow months of special forces ops that uncovered staggering quantities of weapons meant for an invasion of the Galilee.
The proposals were passed unanimously by the committee following extensive discussions.
To a large degree, the international narrative regarding the prime minister is shaped by media coverage in Israel. But the Israeli public isn’t buying it.
Crystal Ball Time! Join Jonathan Tobin in guessing what will happen in the New Year.
A rocket landed on the highway.
'Once you have let it out, it It is impossible to put the genie back into the bottle'
In Six Weeks, Israel Has Eliminated As Many Wanted Terrorists as the US Has Done in the Last 20 Years
By Bassam Tawil
Hamas brought a nakba (catastrophe) to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah is bringing the Lebanese people another.
"Death to America" and "Death to Israel"
A Houthi ballistic missile was intercepted over the Tel Aviv region.
“It’s far past time to transfer to Israel the capabilities it needs to win,” senators Tom Cotton and Mitch McConnell wrote to President Joe Biden.
There is no legitimate way for Israel to take out a terrorist.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
On Aug. 21, Ramallah claimed its economy was at risk of collapsing within "days" after Israeli banks stopped accepting Palestinian Authority cash deposits.
Home Front Command closed schools in northern Israel, and the Transportation Ministry banned sailing in Lake Kinneret.
The entire existence of Hamas is nothing but a litany of gruesome war crimes.
Residents in those regions report hearing the booms from the rockets and interceptions.
Biden-Harris administration decided that the best way to honor the hundreds of Americans killed by Hezbollah, including the 220 Marines in the Beirut barracks bombing in 1983, the brutal torture of Colonel William R. Higgins...and Navy diver Robert Stethem who was beaten to death on TWA Flight 847, was by demanding that Israel surrender to the terrorists.
The IDF confirmed it struck a target in Beirut.
His sticker bears the Hebrew words Don’t wait for them to ask, just help! encapsulating his essence as a caring, proactive individual.
Lebanon is describing it as the most intense bombing since the war began.
The arrested Israeli suspect travelled to Iran twice where he met his handlers.
By David Isaac
"There is some leverage that we have had and used,” she said.
By Bassam Tawil
The most recent statement from Hamas makes it clear that the terror group wants Israel to abandon the Gaza Strip before any hostages are freed.
By Paul Gherkin
Harris and Trump agree that Hamas is an evil terrorist organization but it would appear that only a Trump Administration would push to destroy the group,
The problem with politics of hate is that hate is a hard habit to break.
Rocket alerts went off in central Israel at 6:32 AM Sunday morning.