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By Barry Rubin
Liberals would than blame Israel than examine the faulty assumptions that comprise their worldview.
By Rafi Farber
Allowing private actors to produce and act selfishly redistributes wealth better and more fairly than the government ever can.
By Tzvi Fishman
The darkness of materialism is so great, who can fight against it?
By Hadar Sela
This short film made by Oz Segev of Ma’ale Gamla last week, shows some of the swollen streams of the south and central Golan Heights which all drain into the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).
There are things we do not understand - so many things, but I believe God answers every prayer that is sent to Him.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian’s Jordan page has absolutely nothing warning of the nation’s dangerous lurch to the extreme right abyss.
Palestinians evil ambitions are not even constrained on the holiest site to Judaism.
There are those who think a politician cannot be charged with anti-Semitism or anti-Zionism if the politician appoints Jews or Israelis to high positions. President Obama has just handed such people another shield to hold up against those charges. Bloomberg and other news sites are reporting that tomorrow, January 10, Obama will nominate his Orthodox […]
In 1992, the Tehiya Party brought down Shamir's government over the Madrid Conference, leading to Labor's victory and the signing of the Oslo Accords.
The Palestinians and their advocates rationalize the use of children in jihad.
By Adam Levick
Fatah is celebrating its 48th anniversary, but the group was in fact founded in 1959 which was 54 years ago. So what 1965 event are they actually celebrating?
The burden is now on Senator Hagel to persuade the Senate, the American people, and the leaders of Iran that he is fully supportive of the President's commitment to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
'This was an excellent government for the settlements,' Dani Dayan said.
By Rafi Farber
Just about everything they both say is idiotic.
By Tzvi Fishman
The only thing preventing it from becoming a reality is the tragic fact that so many Orthodox Jews prefer living in the Diaspora.
This is one of those times that I wish the anti-Semites were right, and that there was actually a semi-covert, powerful and well-funded Jewish lobby forcing the US to do its bidding.
People are complaining about floods and traffic and the cold and through it all, there is this amazing joy.
By Barry Rubin
The current voluntary, but not inevitable, decline of the United States places many US allies at risk.
There are many potential Ron Dermers at the world’s universities today, if only we can nurture their gifts in their formative years.
In the past 24 hours, the Kinneret rose 22 centimeters. At it's last measurement, it was at 211.50 meters below sea level. With the rainstorm currently hitting Israel, the Kinneret is expected to rise even higher.
Looking backon Rabin's 1993 interview in Time Magazine.
The Obama administration has succeeded in making the issue of Hagel all about Israel and Jews.
The average of last week's nine polls in Israel
Iraqi Jews had been genuine citizens for thousands of years -- even before Muslims and Christians.
Storms and floods hit Israel, as the Kinneret rises.
On Sunday afternoon, IDF forces arrested three suspicious Arabs at the Gush Etzion junction, averting a terror attack. All three were carrying knives, and during their interrogation admitted that they were planning on committing a terror attack when the IDF caught them. Speaking in a closed forum to his soldiers, Etzion brigade commander, Colonel Yani […]
In a 12 year struggle, we have led the Religious Zionists deep into the ruling party. The Likud, in turn, gladly opened its gates wide.
By Barry Rubin
If you are really being so hurt by the existence and growth of settlements then make peace fast and get rid of them.
Let's face it, people here don't vote for representatives. Party bosses and power players do.
By Yair Shamir
A Palestinian state would not only fail to bring peace and stability to the region, but would increase the tension and instability to the region.
Straight from the Jerusalem Boardroom #174.
As if you needed proof that the new Egypt is an enemy lying in wait.
I don’t know what is in the air in Israel that makes some people think that they are doing the right thing by God in sticking knives into the heads of their opponents.
The EU has yet to appreciate the reality that the conflict continues because of the refusal of the Palestinians to accept the right of the State of Israel to exist.
Western journalists, donors and decision-makers need to know that many Palestinian-related truths are being ignored or hidden from them.
By Rafi Farber
It was not a political statement or a planned exercise in disobedience. It was a spontaneous act of religious devotion meant to provoke no one.
The poll comes on the heels of another set of polls which claimed that Israelis supported the two-state solution by a two-thirds margin.
The ideal is a tolerant Jewish state which is nevertheless fully Jewish. This isn’t an easy sell to secular Israelis.
How good are the chances for a better understanding on both sides of the dispute when the presence of one word on a printed label triggers the involvement of the military, the police and the judiciary?
There is as little chance of the conditions described in the poll being fulfilled as there being a porcine airlift.
People can lose their liberty without feeling a thing. So guard it with the greatest vigilance and do not give anyone your biometric information.
The facts tend to be less urgent for individuals with an ideological predisposition to kicking out at Israel at every opportunity.
What Abbas is not telling the Israeli public is that he simply does not have a mandate from his people to make any form of concessions to Israel.
Boring is one of God's greatest gifts, especially for a soldier's mother.
A policy of appeasing the US and EU can only aid the Arabs in their project to weaken Israel and slice away at it, bit by bit.
By Barry Rubin
You can learn from the Bible that people understood four thousand years ago about things that America's current leaders have forgotten today.
By Hadar Sela
The site of Tel Lachish shows evidence of human habitation in Israel spanning many different historic periods over thousands of years.
Israelis have finally realized what a bill of goods they were sold in 1993, when they were suckered into the Oslo agreements.
By JoeSettler
You might recall the famous case of MK Azmi Bishara, not coincidentally, also from the Balad party.
Since the outbreak a few weeks ago within the Palestinian Authority, 190 arabs have been infected with swine flu also known as H1N1, and 9 have died so far.
By Yair Shamir
When my late father, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, was in office, neither Ronald Reagan nor George Bush agreed with his ideology.
By Adam Levick
Many commentators on the far left scolded those who would suggest a connection between culture and success – imputing racism to such arguments.
Douglas Goldstein presents a five-point plan to make your aliyah dream a reality.
"I won't go to her yoga training, she runs a program in Israel."
The Israel Antiquities Authority has announced the discovery of a rare cache of sacred vessels from the early days of the Kingdom of Judea.
May God forever bless us with these messy floors and children who never listen for the siren, never look where to hide.
Here in Israel, keeping your head in the sand is seen as an unbearably expensive option.
By Amin Farouk
"Palestine," shouted Mashaal to his audience, was Arabic, Islamic, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River; his audience chanted its support.
By Adam Levick
Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil spent over 302 days in prison for criticizing the Egyptian Military after it took power in early 2011.
My son-in-law needs to believe that there will be no need for soldiers in another 18 or so years. Deep down, I want to believe that too.
By Barry Rubin
The idea that Obama is now backing Israel is what American Jewish voters who supported him desperately need to believe.
By Adam Levick
Those who insist that the "settlements" represent the biggest obstacle to peace should be asked to explain why their theory doesn't match with the history.
Right now, a lot of eyebrows are probably being raised as high as the champagne glasses, after Defense Minister Ehud Barak granted Ariel College his stamp of approval.
My harsh criticism is reserved for extremist behavior that is a result of those Hashkafos – even if it is from my own.
In the diary of terror victim Tal Kehrmann, Tal's parents found a picture of a camel, but it had not been colored in...
Jerusalem's besiegers are a captive audience. It's time for Israel to speak.
By Hadar Sela
During the Hellenistic period, the city of Nysa-Scythopolis was founded. In 749 CE it was destroyed in the massive earthquake which hit the area.
It is entirely possible for two parties to hate each other, but to agree they hate you more.
By Barry Rubin
The Washington Post is suggesting that greater military success for terrorism will lead to Middle East peace.
By Tzvi Fishman
If you think that living in a Xtrian land doesn’t affect you at all, it’s because your brain has been so saturated with dreams of white Christmases.
By Meir Indor
The Israeli Left is incentivizing the Palestinians to refuse negotiations and potentially use violence against Israel.
How many times do we have to hear statements like 'the Jews have too much Power' before we realize that the people saying it are anti- Semites?!
My children go to school behind fences, with an armed guard at the gates.
By J. E. Dyer
Chuck Hagel writes his own narrative, in which threats aren’t really threats and policies that actually work are just horrible.
Egyptian blogger, Maikel Nabil Sanad, was shouted down today during his visit to Israel... by Arab students studying at Hebrew University.
In what the Israeli police are now calling a nationalistic (terror) attack, an Arab taxi driver drove into a border policeman at the Oz police station near Jaabel Mukaber in Jerusalem.
Over the past few days the Kinneret has been steadily rising, and on Saturday it rose by 12 centimeters reaching 212.07 meters below sea level, which is 93 centimeters above the lower red line. The Kinneret is now 327 centimeters below its maximum capacity which is at 208.8 meters below sea level. The Kinneret's highest […]
As one veteran Fatah member said at a rally last week, "In our hearts we are all Hamas."
While the Israeli media wrongly claimed that the Likud had made an extreme shift to the right in recent primaries, some commentators were correcting in observing the existence of a deal-system. (Part IV in a series about the Likud primaries).
Even after the New York Times issued a remarkable correction, the paper's bureau chief claims she was essentially correct in writing that construction in E-1 would cut Judea and Samaria in two.
France says that the UN Disengagement Observer Force may removed due to the fear of Syrian chemical weapons.
Fayyad wants Palestinians to boycott Israel, but at the same time is unable to provide them with better alternatives.
In the arid, forsaken and violent area that we live in, if you beg for peace you get a kick in the behind and thrown out of the arena.
By Tzvi Fishman
Jewish life changes when we are in Galut. Not only does our Clalli soul disappear, but every detail of our life is affected.
Abbas and Hamas have decided for now to lay their differences aside and work towards escalating tensions on the ground, particularly in Judea and Samaria.
By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org
With the international community barely having finished expressing its outrage over Israel's decision to build in E-1, between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim (reported at length in last week's column), two other similar decisions have been made that are sure to re-ignite the flames.
September 18, 2026 
