Israel soldiers shot and killed a Gaza man and wounded one other after they tried to approach a restricted area to sabotage the security fence near Gaza City. The injured man was treated for light wounds in a Gaza hospital. The dead man was identified as Ibrahim Suleiman Mansour, 26. A Gaza health spokesman told […]
The truth behind “peace talks” has been hidden in transparent code, but now the PA has exposed its lie.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Palestinian Authority announced last week it will be giving an additional $46 million a year to released prisoners, including hundreds of murderers of civilians, according to the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). This new funding is an addition to the tens of millions the PA already gives in salaries and other benefits to terrorists in […]
Israelis not only live where the world says they are forbidden but also teach Torah as a Light unto the Nations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A top Palestinian Authority (PA) official said that the PA wants control of all the areas in Jerusalem that were won by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War, including the Western Wall. Minister of Holy Places for the PA Mahmoud al-Habbash told Israel's Channel 10 network that “there will be no peace until the end of […]
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A British lawmaker apologized for remarks comparing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. Yasmin Qureshi of the Labor Party made her apology in a statement on Friday for remarks she made two days earlier to the Parliament. “The debate was about the plight of the Palestinian people and in no […]
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Obama administration officials briefed Jewish and Arab-American student leaders on the peace process. Among the participants in Thursday’s three-hour White House briefing were students affiliated with Hillel, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the American Jewish Committee, J Street and Americans for Peace Now. “As part of our ongoing efforts of working with key stakeholders […]
By Shalom Bear
The PA has renewed ties with Iran and is threatening to bring back suicide bombers. Does this concern anyone?
The church "study guide" casts supporters of the Jewish homeland as "inherently racist and abusive."
Palestinian Authority Arabs from the village of Al Aroob rioted and blocked the only road connecting Gush Etzion with Kiryat Arba-Hevron Thursday night and then attacked IDF soldiers with firebombs and rocks before they were dispersed with tear gas and rubber bullets. None of the soldiers were injured, an IDF spokeswoman told The Jewish Press, […]
Terrorists form Gaza attacked Israel with one and possibly two missiles on Thursday despite pledges by Hamas that it would halt rocket firing. Either Hamas is not capable of controlling rival terrorist gangs, which has been the situation off and on for more two years, or it has returned to its old tactic of pledging […]
Mohammed Dahlan, the former Fatah party strongman in Gaza, denied on Thursday that he recently met with Shlomo Molcho, one of Israel’s two negotiators with the Palestinian Authority and a confidant to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The Maariv newspaper reported that the two men met in Dubai to establish a closer relationship with Dahlan, who […]
Thee eastern Jerusalem Arabs were sentenced to prison terms of four to seven years Wednesday for organizing Hamas activities and spreading its ideology. The Jerusalem court verdict declared that Hamas is trying “to take control of Jerusalem” through social activities, which is exactly the model Hezbollah used to take over southern Lebanon. The court denied […]
The increasing number of Jerusalem Arab terror plots is scarier than the “peace talks.”
Palestinian Authority Arabs in a village near Shechem in northern Samaria lightly wounded an Israeli soldier with rock throwing and firebombs early Wednesday after the IDF entered area to arrests four suspected terrorists, according o Arab media. An IDF spokeswoman told The Jewish Press that only one terrorist was arrested and that there were no […]
The closer Kerry gets to his self-imposed deadline, the more Israel tries to put facts on the ground.
By Shalom Bear
Average Israelis warned, terror would escalate on Road 443 following the Supreme Court's decision. Now Israeli ministers are forbidden to drive on 443. What's wrong with this picture?
U.S. government employees are forbidden from traveling anywhere on personal business in Judea and Samaria except for Bethlehem and Jericho, according to the government’s latest travel advisory. In language softer than previous warnings that scared the dickens out of anyone even thinking of visiting Israel, the advisory pointed out, “Over three million foreign citizens, including […]
According to the IDF Spokesperson's Office, Major Tal Nachman, 21, from Nes Tziona, was killed Monday night by friendly fire near the border with northern Gaza. His family was notified. He will be buried today, 3 PM, at the military section of the local cemetery in Nes Tziona. The officer was commanding an intelligence reconnaissance […]
The New York Times once again serves as a mouthpiece for bald-faced Arab deception disguised as the truth.
The Defense Ministry is literally gambling the lives of Israelis by only not bombing terror tunnels.
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Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas told The New York Times he would be willing to allow a U.S.-led NATO force to patrol a Palestinian state for an indefinite amount of time. Israeli soldiers and Israeli settlements could remain for five years from the state’s establishment, Abbas said in an interview with The New York Times […]
Hamas is withdrawing 600 personnel it deployed to stop rocket attacks on Israel.
By Tibbi Singer
Kerry shares many of his unique and original solutions for Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and Tel Aviv.
A Gazan citizen was killed when his Rafiach tunnel, along the Egyptian border collapsed on him, on Saturday night.
For the first time in decades, enemy forces can attack all of Israel’s cities.
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The description of a possible U.S.-drafted framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace that Martin Indyk, the top U.S. Middle East envoy, delivered to a group of Jewish leaders was not final, the State Department said. “During an off the record briefing with Jewish leaders, Ambassador Indyk reiterated the well-known United States position in support of 1967 borders […]
Obama's brother is wearing a Hamas keffiya in a photo on the Barack Hussein Obama (Sr) Foundation website
All in a day’s work for Palestinian Authority Arabs – guns smuggling, rock throwing and an attempted hit and run.
The Palestinian Authority called the kettle black Thursday and accused the Netanyahu government of inciting against Mahmoud Abbas and damaging the peace process, the PA official WAFA news agency said. Abbas’ spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said, “The positions of the president [Abbas] and the Palestinian leadership are aimed at protecting the rights of the Palestinian […]
The unrepentant murderer of two Israeli college students was praised, rewarded, employed and promoted.
Jibril Rajoub, a senior leader in the Fatah party headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, visited Iran Tuesday, the first time a PA official has traveled to the Islamic Republic in several years. He told Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that Fatah “will not stop the resistance until the establishment of an […]
No one illustrates the posture of power of the United States of America more than John Kerry.
The head of IDF Intelligence said on Wednesday that enemy countries have 170,000 missiles ready to be fired on Israel, a threat that is worse than the Iranian nuclear program. The numbers have been known before the sum total was announced by Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi. It has been reported dozens of times […]
The nationalist Legal Grounds organization in Israeli has applauded actress Scarlett Johansson for standing up for Israeli-based SodaStream and invited her to Israel as their guest “to see for herself the benefits that SodaStream and other Israeli companies based in Judea and Samaria provide to people of all religions and ethnicities.” SodaStream recently signed on […]
The Palestinian Authority promotes terror as “resistance” and speaks the truth in inaction more than in words.
Bennett gets the headline, Abbas scores a point and Netanyahu has the last word.
The official Palestinian Authority daily last week, days before International Holocaust Remembrance Day, published an op-ed demonizing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who it said has Nazi genes that he may have “acquired it genetically from the days of the Nazis and the Aryan race." The report, translated and published by the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), […]
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SodaStream is believed to be the first Israeli firm to introduce a court case against the Palestinian lobby.
Israeli soldiers delayed the convoy of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah for the fourth time in a month on Tuesday, according to the PA’s official WAFA website. It did not say how long the convoy was delayed but only stated that the soldiers stopped the vehicles to inspect identification cards of Hamdallah’s security force. […]
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Chile’s Palestine Football Club, after being fined for wearing uniforms on which the number one in players’ numbers in the backs of their shirts were represented by a map of Israel as Palestine, unveiled its new uniforms that now show exactly the same thing on the front of the shirt. Inset into the players’ numbers […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
All of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount site were restored to Israel in 1967, but few want to acknowledge it.
Israeli security forces in 2013 foiled 40 attempted or planned attacks by terrorists who were freed by Israel in November 2011 for the return of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit, the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) reported Monday in its annual summary of terror. In addition, several attacks were carried out by other terrorists freed in […]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Israeli negotiator and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni are the only two people who still believe in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said in Tel Aviv Monday night. “The Israelis are the Palestinians are ambivalent towards their future and towards the […]
No one seems to remember that Netanyahu once won a stalemate with chess master Natan Sharansky.
Hackers attacked Israeli computers including one used by the defense ministry department dealing with civilians in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli data protection expert told Army Radio on Monday. "At the beginning of this month a number of mails were sent to a number of companies in Israel, including security organizations," Seculert cyber security […]
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The Obama administration has designated Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s deputy secretary general Ziyad al-Nakhalah as a terrorist, the U.S. State Dept. announced. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the Dec. 22 bombing of a bus in Tel Aviv in which quick thinking by two passengers and the bus driver prevented a mass casually disaster. “Ziyad has […]
The “culture of hatred” promoted by the Palestinian Authority and that has been more pronounced since the resumption of “peace talks” since last July "undermines the chances for peace between Israel and the Palestinians," the Foreign Ministry stated on Sunday. It tied the resumption of discussions with a sharp increase in terrorist attacks. There were […]
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Israeli negotiators are discussing a series of limited withdrawals linked to progress by the Palestinian Authority in maintaining security, a senior Palestinian official said. The withdrawals are part of a plan for a peace agreement being brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, according to an interview with Yasser Abed Rabbo published in the […]
Arabs say so often that Jews are trying to re-build the Temple that they might end up convincing Jews to do it.
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas asked Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Thursday to invest in a $1 billion natural gas project off the coast of Hamas-controlled Gaza, Russia’s news agency reported. Abbas is vesting Moscow, which has been a strong backer of the Palestinian Authority. Securing a huge investment for Gaza would help Abbas win […]
The U.S. announced it placed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader on its global terrorist list.
If Israel surrenders the Jordan Valley, Arabs will be relieved of the burden of having to smuggle weapons.
Residents of the Eli (pronounced Eh-lee) settlement in Benjamin Region say they discovered say they discovered on Wednesday "price tag" graffiti sprayed on chopped olive tree trunks in the settlement, Israeli press source reported. A day earlier, those same settlers had caught Arab villagers who were chopping down olive trees in their own village field, […]
Abbas has either completely lost control of his mind or lost control of his Fatah’s party incitement.
Palestinian Authority terrorists hurled two firebombs at an Israeli bus near Shchem Wednesday night, causing damage to the vehicle but no injuries to the passengers. Soldiers are combing the area for the attackers.
President Shimon Peres has told diplomatic officials that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a “Jewish State” is “unnecessary” and is an obstacle to a peace pact, the Yisrael HaYom newspaper reported Wednesday. The “Jewish state” issue has been one of Netanyahu’s’ favorite ploys to make PA chairman Mahmoud […]
Al Qaeda operates in Judea and Samaria through the Internet in Gaza.
In reality, there were only 700,000 displaced Palestinians following Israel’s 1948 war of Independence.
The IDF successfully targeted the PFLP terrorist who was responsible for rocket attacks during Sharon's funeral as well as other terrorist attacks.
Israel should hire Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as its ambassador to the world.
It’s all over but the shouting.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and brethren may be able to blow up the “peace talks” with a bit more war.
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Romania supports in principle Israel’s demand for Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish state but encourages compromises on this and other issues, Romanian President Traian Basescu said. Speaking to JTA at his presidential palace two days before an Israel visit that began Sunday, Basescu said that “if they [the Palestinians] want peace, they must […]
No confirmation of the alleged assault was reported by any news outlet other than Ma'an.
Kerry is whistling Dixie to think that everything that helps the Palestinian Authority helps Israel.
A Border Police officer shot and seriously wounded a suspected Palestinian Authority terrorist Monday afternoon near the Jewish community of Telem, located on the highway leading from Kiryat Arba-Hebron to Kiryat Gat and Beit Shemesh. The policeman spotted the suspect running towards the security control tower. The suspect ran away after warnings shots were fired […]
Canada’s constant support of Israel since Harper became Prime Minister is a rare example of intellectual honesty.
Terrorists from Hamas-ruled Gaza attacked southern Israel again Sunday morning with two more rockets that exploded in open areas and caused no damage or injuries. Military officials said last week that Israel will not allow a return to the days of “tit-for-tat” retaliation, with Hamas and other terrorists launching a couple of rockets a day […]
Hadassah New Zealand is planning to raise funds for the Rozana Project by participating in the March 2014 Jerusalem marathon and generating donations from sponsors in New Zealand and Israel, J-wire reported. Tali Dowek, the Director of Hadassah’s Department of Development, Donors & Events, said that since the launch of the Rozana Project, about 2 […]
Two other air strikes in central and southern Gaza Strip left no reported injuries.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
At about 11:00 PM last night, a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip by Terrorist struck the Sdot Negev Regional Council. No injuries or damage were registered. In retaliation the Israel Air Force targeted two terror activity sites in the southern and the central Gaza Strip. Direct hits were confirmed. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, IDF […]
On Saturday night, a Palestinian Authority terrorist shot towards the entrance of the town of Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion. The shooting was done with a homemade gun. Three shots were fired. IDF forces captured the terrorist, and no one was injured in the attack.
Complaints by Arab states led UNESCO to cancel the exhibition.
On Friday afternoon, a Palestinian Authority terrorist threw a firebomb at Beit Haddasah in Hebron. An IDF soldier responded to the attack, shot and hit the terrorist. The terrorist's condition is not known.
The Obama administration thinks better of Palestinian Authority terrorists than it does of those in Hezbollah.
The Palestinian Authority hurriedly denied an Israeli report Thursday night that its security forced arrested Hamas terrorists in Hebron who were planning to take explosive devices with them to Israeli population centers. "We have no information about this issue," Palestinian Authority Adnan al-Dumieri told the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency. The original Israeli report by the […]
Terrorists from Gaza launched another rocket towards Ashkelon Thursday night, setting off early warning sirens, but the missile missed its mark and may have exploded in northern Gaza. Shortly before, Reuters quoted an Israeli military official as saying, “We won’t go back to a situation where three or four times a week the red alarm […]
Hamas has castigated Twitter for closing its account, an action that it said “exposes the ‘unprofessional’ policy of the latest, and the total ‘bias’ to the Israeli occupation and real terrorism in the world,” according to the terrorist organization’s website. Of course, Hamas says Israel is a terrorist organization, while Hamas, in its own words, […]
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A bill introduced by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee would link assistance to the Palestinian Authority to its efforts to stop incitement. Under the bill presented Wednesday by California Republican Rep. Ed Royce, the president would have to determine that the Palestinian Authority “no longer engages in a pattern of incitement against […]
Hamas probably is not responsible for the recent escalation of missile attacks on Israel and may even be trying to prevent them. However, it still will be the target of retaliation, a senior Israeli military officer told Reuters Thursday. The officer, who was quoted on the basis of anonymity, said rival terrorist groups, smaller than […]
How do you eliminate a terror target? With pinpoint accuracy.
Jordan might be the X factor in Kerry’s foolsmanship in the Middle East.
Israel's Iron Dome defense system saved more lives early Thursday morning.
Palestinian Authority police allegedly took photographers into custody and deleted their footage of recent protests in Ramallah against UNRWA policies, according to the Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms said that the actions violate "freedom of opinion and expression," and demanded authorities "enable journalists to exercise their professional duty […]
Arabs who attack Jews cannot return to terror if they never left their favorite pastime.
The Palestinian Authority has not explained to the Czech Republic why 12 firearms, including submachine guns, were stored at its embassy in Prague where a PA diplomat was killed in an explosion to weeks ago. Palestinian diplomats have apologized for hiding illegal weapons at the Prague embassy where a blast killed the ambassador on New […]
Terrorists who are Israeli citizens and are freed before their terms end as part of political deals will not be allowed to collect assistance from the National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi) to help them readjust, if the Knesset passes into law a bill sponsored by Liked-Beiteinu Knesset Member Yariv Levin. The proposed legislation would not […]
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Israel’s Supreme Court has given Justice Minister Tzipi Livni one week to respond to a lawsuit by an Israeli NGO representing victims of Palestinian terror victims in a case against the Bank of China. On Tuesday, the court put its time mandate on Livni hours after the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center filed a suit requesting […]
The lack of love between the Palestinian Authority and Israel is played out best in live street theatre.
When an Israeli leader says what he really thinks of Kerry, it‘s no wonder the US is insulted, even if true.
Israeli soldiers stopped a speeding car north of Ramallah Tuesday, and it turned out to be a vehicle driving Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Razi Hamdallah, who immediately turned the incident into a nasty political fight. He reportedly called one soldier a “dog” and scorned him for standing in “occupied territory.” His car and convoy had […]
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said in private that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry acts out of “misplaced obsession and messianic fervor [and] cannot teach me anything about the conflict with the Palestinians." Ya’alon, whose remarks were quoted by the Yediot Acharonot newspaper, also commented, The only thing that can 'save us' is for John […]
Michael Oren thinks if the U.S. can't force Israel to give up land for nothing, Israel should do it on its own.
Visiting Germany Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier accused Israel of “disrupting” talks with the Palestinian Authority for a peace agreement by announcing the construction of more homes for Jews in Judea and Samaria. He alleged that the building violates understandings that Kerry set forth last July, when direct talks resumed for the first time in three […]
One of the greatest dangers to peace is taking all of the conditons for war calling them a basis for peace.
The Israeli Air Force targeted two terror sites in central and southern Gaza early Monday evening in retaliation for two rocket attacks near Sderot in the northern Negev shortly after the former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was buried nearby at his Shikmim Farm home. The IDF confirmed “direct hits” on the targets, which were identified […]
The initial report was that 2 additional rockets fell from Gaza at 5:24 PM. Updated reports indicate that there were 2 explosions within Gaza. An IDF spokesperson said that the IAF attacked terror sites within Gaza after the attack at the end of Ariel Sharon's funeral, which may have been connected to the explosions that […]
Abbas promised he would reiterate this stance during a meeting with Kerry.