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 Adam Kredo
'Israel-related anti-Semitic harassment increased 70 percent'
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
If Iran eventually is forced to suspend its efforts to hit Israel, the consequences of the current confrontation may be positive for Israel. Its decisive response may encourage Tehran's realists to attempt to convince Khamenei that the hard-liners' policy led nowhere, and that to save the Islamist regime he has to accept a new nuclear agreement that will really deny Iran the ability to have nuclear weapons.
By JCFA- Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs
it can be said with certainty that Nasrallah is an actor and a liar who has turned manipulation into an art.
Gentleman May Prefer Blondes BUT Palestinian Women Prefer to Marry Wounded Terrorists
By Edwin Black
For decades, open allegations have been publicly aired alleging links between the Union of Agricultural Work Committees and the Popular Front for the Liberation Palestine.
The name “Palestine” is not related to Arab/Muslim culture. Arabs have not been in the Land of Israel (Palestine) from time immemorial.
By David Bedein
Mohammad Assaf , newly married into the wealthiest Palestinian Arab family on earth, travels each day from UNRWA refugee camps in Gaza, with a permit from the Israel Civil Administration, smiling at curious Jewish authorities, as if his message to Arab youth concerts is innocuous.
Western policy-makers tend to ignore a major prerequisite to a constructive peace process: the uprooting - and not merely trimming – of hate-education.
By Dov Lipman
With both Israel’s right- and left-wing blocs having been unable to secure a coalition following the April election, the Arab parties could represent a significant boost to the left in September should they break their longstanding tradition of remaining outside the government.
By J. E. Dyer
Shadow battle with Iran continues
The goal of BDS is to silence American Jews as a political force, and American Jews refuse to see what is happening to them while it is happening.
1. The sustained growth of Israel’s economy for 15 consecutive years – 3.1% and 3.3% growth projected for 2019 and 2010 respectively – the flow of foreign investment to Israel’s hightech industries, the expanding production of natural gas in Israel and low unemployment (3.6%), have led Standard & Poor’s credit rating agency to reaffirm Israel’s […]
The black hole of the Jewish year
The increasingly disparaging Saudi – and the overall Arab – attitude towards the Palestinian Authority and Hamas has been shaped by the following developments..
By Hadar Sela
{Originally posted to the BBC Watch website} On the afternoon of July 31st the BBC News website published a report headlined “Israel backs West Bank homes for settlers and Palestinians” on its ‘Middle East’ page. Unfortunately for any reader hoping to gain a better understanding of the broader topic behind the specific story, the report […]
Israel realizes that tolerating criticism does not reflect vacillation, but open-mindedness and an opportunity to highlight critical data, as was the case in prior visits of US legislators known for their criticism of Israel.
Blue and White is in the black and the future is looking rosy
By Eliana Rudee
Each party has an incentive to settle the territorial dispute so that international companies exploring waters will invest.
By Eliana Rudee
When the tragic shooting of 19-year-old Solomon Tekah touched off nationwide protests, left-wing groups fanned the flames, activists say, seeking to use grassroots demonstrations for political gain.
Israel is growing through brain-power.
The truth is that even the most dedicated research on how to deal with the migrants, divide the refugees from economic migrants, and establish a legality connected to a moral stance does not work. At the end of the day, both the nations that have welcomed these migrants and the countries that keep them out are all on the same page
The US mindset on Israel draws its strength from the religious, ethical, moral and cultural roots of the US society, which were planted in 1620
Recent events have demonstrated how Israel’s existence bolsters the security of U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf and throughout the Middle East, countering Iran and enhancing the war on Islamic terrorism.
Israel’s withdrawal from the mountain ridges would transform the Jewish State from a national security asset of the US to a national security liability/burden upon the US, depriving the US of a unique beachhead, which constitutes the largest US aircraft carrier with no US soldiers on board, and a most productive battle-tested laboratory,
By Hadar Sela
A senior news source said: ‘It boils down to that phrase, ‘One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’.”
He further notes that some of his patients have succeeded in reducing or eliminating their unwanted attractions, while some have not or have chosen not to continue the process.
The most critical feature/test of defensible borders in the Middle East is their capability to fend off realistic (worst-case) scenarios.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Tuesday night ceremony in Jerusalem was attended by some 800 people, including Jerusalem chief rabbis, senior IDF officials and members of the strictly Orthodox Netzach Yehuda Battalion
While the world is busy discussing ways to uproot and eradicate Antisemitism, the PA is busy cementing and preserving it.
From strength to strength
Notre Dame fire is same as “Zionist invasions that desecrate” the Al-Aqsa Mosque
41 parties are running for a seat in the Knesset, here's who they are...
By CAMERA
Thrall can be counted on to produce, on demand, the usual anti-Israel screed that has long been norm at the Times. But Thrall outdoes himself this time.
By Orit Arfa
What explains Germany’s inconsistent efforts in rooting out terrorists from its midst?
The control of the Golan Heights enables Israel to play a key role in constraining Iran’s expansion into Syria and Lebanon, restraining the flow of lava emitted by the potential Syrian volcano, securing Jordan’s Hashemite regime and removing the anti-US machetes from the throats of every pro-US regime.
By J. E. Dyer
It has been clear for some time now that Iran has been eyeing the Golan as a gateway to military leverage over Israel. With U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty in the Golan, the vector of geomilitary momentum will shift significantly.
Middle East policy, in general, and peace initiatives, in particular, must adhere to Middle East reality, as violently unpredictable, complicated and frustrating as it is. They must overcome the well-intentioned temptation of oversimplification, wishful-thinking, misperceptions and short-term gratification, which doomed to failure all previous US, European and international peace initiatives.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Syrian scholar Firas Al-Sawwah: “Al-Aqsa mentioned in the Koran is not in Jerusalem; we should critically examine our past and some of our religious traditions.”
By IPT-Investigative Project on Terrorism
A Hamas official said that the terrorist organization "has no interest in an escalation" with Israel.
The integration of Israel’s ultra-orthodox community in the hightech sector is expanding (still in the initial stage) and will be a positive influence
The 'journalist' stated that it is not only Greenblatt who suffers from Down Syndrome but the entire Trump administration:
In recent years, most of the counter-terrorism arrests by the Shin Bet, the Israel Defense Forces and the counter-terrorism unit of the Israel Police have targeted Hamas, not Fatah-Tanzim members, who have been dormant.
The attempt to minimize Middle East instability and advance the US interest, on the one hand, and establishing a Palestinian state, on the other hand, constitutes a classic oxymoron, adding fuel – not water – to the Middle East fire.
In 2019, the US and Israel share identical national and homeland security concerns in the Middle East and beyond.
By J. E. Dyer
In America, Ilhan Omar has the right to express anti-Semitic views, using, if she chooses, the same anti-Semitic themes as Nazi propagandists. Her constituents in Minnesota have the right to elect her to Congress. But that doesn’t mean any of them has a right to any committee assignments for Omar in the House of Representatives, much less choice ones like the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
By Orit Arfa
A recent report detailed the personnel and activities of 10 BDS-affiliated organizations that collectively received about 5 million euros from the European Union in some form in the last year.
The “War Between Wars” is an ongoing Israeli military and intelligence effort to disrupt the force build-up of the Iranian-Shiite axis throughout the Middle East. This campaign, which has evolved into an entire force activation doctrine, has seen the Israeli defense establishment employ an approach that differentiates between Syria and Lebanon.
By Regavim
The Palestinian Authority’s Systematic Annexation of Tens of Thousands of Acres in Judea and Samaria
By Gilead Ini
No surprise that Israel’s opening of Route 4370, a strange road that’s half highway and half territorial boundary, was used as an occasion to yet again unholster the apartheid slur. The newly opened road is essentially a pair of parallel highways, one primarily serving Israeli citizens and the other serving residents of the PA
Israel is preparing to implement a new law imposing financial sanctions on the PA for its "Pay for Slay" policy, PMW has looked at the PA's financial reports for 2018 which includes its payments to terrorist prisoners and released terrorist prisoners and it is shocking
The 'Blue and White" is in the "Pink"
By Edwin Black
Thanks to courageous students and others who stepped forward, combined with intense media scrutiny, the rate of acceleration of anti-Semitism on campus and especially at UC colleges, has been temporarily slowed—
Abbas attitude: Feed terrorists; let Palestinian poor go hungry
Whatever was hit in Syria by Israel may have belonged to a category known as “time-critical targets.” That could mean that imminent plans were in place to move the target to a place where it would be harder to strike.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Iran is trying to drag Israel into a war of attrition as Hamas has done on the Gaza border.
Despite media misdirection, REALITY RULES!!
The Israeli military’s state of readiness has dramatically improved, but it has a lot more catching up to do. It has spent years neglecting the ground forces – and those forces will be essential if enemies like Hezbollah are to be decisively defeated.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
While it may appear that the Palestinians are slowly managing to achieve their goal of achieving full U.N. membership, the likelihood of this happening still remains slim.
By NGO Monitor
The NGO Monitor report also stated that WCC has been funded by UNICEF and countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Canada and Japan.
By Zionist Organization of America
Dr. Kollab issued a purported “apology” through her attorney. This non-apology was really simply an occasion for her to spread further antisemitic libels against the Jewish people!
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.
Of the 22 parties currently running, 14 parties are currently all polling within one or two seats above or below the electoral threshold, many within a margin of error. Party leaders will be forced to make compromises and political alliances, or risk not making it through to the parliament.
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 Mida
What’s in a name? In the case of the Arabs, it tells you what their tribe and country of origin are. It also dispels the biggest fallacy the “Palestinians” would like you to believe.
Western Mid-Easat policy – from Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, through Jordan, Egypt and North Africa - has largely failed due to a multitude of erroneous assessments made by well-intentioned policy-makers, researchers, academicians and journalists.
Journalist Ken Kurson bought the domain name, 'Airbnbisracist.com' – and Airbnb.com is threatening to sue him.
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 BBC Watch
According to the BBC, Lebanon has ZERO Hizbollah combatants, just civilians
By CAMERA
The U.N.’s anti-Israel history is both long and undeniable. And journalists shouldn’t pretend otherwise.
Venture capital investment in Israel has grown systematically over the last decade, reflecting the steady growth of Israel’s economy.
By J. E. Dyer
The U.S. leaving Syria won’t mean Syria descending into chaos. I can’t say I like what it does mean for Syria. But chaos is not in the offing.
The sum that the UN and the PA are asking the international community to donate - $350 million dollars - is equivalent to the $355 million dollars the PA allocated in its 2018 budget to fund its payments rewarding terror.
European Jews “have lost faith in the authorities, in their neighbours and in their national leaders..."
By CAMERA
According to Gideon Levy, criticizing Israel in the western media – especially in the U.S.A – has become a nearly impossible mission.
Irrespective of the Palestinian issue, Oman—just like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt and all other pro-U.S. Arab countries—is preoccupied with domestic and regional threats and challenges, which supersede the Palestinian issue
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The aim? According to Israel’s Land Law, the continual agricultural presence of a farmer affords him rights to the land.
By Adam Kredo
Trump vows support for Israeli defensive operations after identifying Iran as source of tunnels into Israel
UNIFIL is not supposed to be merely a means of communication, or the Security Council would have bought cell phones for them instead of paying for weapons for the military force.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
French money donated to the budget the PA used to pay salaries to terrorists
The legacy of Chanukah – the centrality of liberty and morality, freedom of religion and defiance of immense odds – has played a major role in shaping the American ethos and state of mind from the Early Pilgrims, through the Founding Fathers’ War of Independence and their composition/ratification the US Constitution until today.
Over 25% of those surveyed from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Sweden, believed that Jews had too much influence in business and that nearly one in four believed that Jews had too much influence in wars around the world,
The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), recently issued “A Political-Security Framework Strategic Action Plan for the Israeli-Palestinian Arena.” The gap between the INSS initiative and the basic principles expressed by PM Yitzhak Rabin is such that one might assume Rabin would have been fundamentally opposed to the initiative.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israelis and American Jews have gobbled it up alright, as soon as they were assured the meaty bird was acceptable to eat.
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.
By NGO Monitor
The role of NGOs and their funder/enablers in this discriminatory political campaign is central.
Despite Hamas firing an estimated 460 projectiles into Israel on Monday and Tuesday—the heaviest bombardment since the 2014 war—NGOs, such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International, failed to explicitly condemn the terror group
After weeks of sending masses of civilians into direct confrontation with Israel – including women children, even babies – to act as a buffer between its operatives trying to infiltrate the border, Hamas has resorted to previous tactics of firing directly on residents on the Gaza border
President Trump is not expected to pursue an isolationist policy. Instead, he will persist in a unilateral – rather than multilateral – diplomatic, economic and military policy, where US national security interests supersede counter-productive and hostile interests set by international and multilateral organizations
The PA paying big $ to terrorists is their version of the game show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire>"
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Boston Imam Abdullah Faaruuq asserts in sermons: “This is the land of the coward and the home of the slave'; 'Without Islam, America will meet its demise.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Nobody should ever be afraid to go to a synagogue or wear a ‘kipah’ in the European Union. Today, as every day, the European Commission stands firm against all forms of anti-Semitism. We will continue to relentlessly fight prejudice and stereotypes in Europe.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The political action committee of the left-wing Israel group J Street batted just under 43 percent on Tuesday night, as most of their endorsed candidates in competitive races wound up losing their bid.
By BESA CENTER
By Dr. Mordechai Chaziza, November 5, 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a sign of the importance Beijing assigns to ties with Jerusalem, China’s powerful VP, Wang Qishan, made a visit to Israel last week. He is the highest-level Chinese official to visit since then-president Jiang Zemin visited in 2000. Wang is known as a “firefighter” and is a close ally of President Xi Jinping, the most powerful Chinese leader since Chairman Mao. Continue to full article ->
PA TV showed a photo with rows of dead bodies claiming they were Arabs killed by Israelis in the Arab village of Al-Dawayima in 1948. In fact, it was a photo of Holocaust victims in a concentration camp.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Inspired by Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, many countries intend to announce their plans to relocate embassies to Jerusalem, senior diplomatic official says • Meanwhile PA asks Egypt's el-Sissi to use his influence to thwart move by Brazil.
Presumably considering the grave risk to the entire student body and school staff were the unimmunized child to be admitted to school, versus that of the child being kept home or having to attend an alternative institution, the court wisely denied the plaintiffs’ request.