Israel is better off with a weak Hamas rather than a dead Hamas, for the time being, says Netanyahu.
Hamas’ supreme leader Khaled Mashaal dashed any hopes of long-term peace with Israel in a speech in Qatar on Thursday in which he shot from the hip at Israel and also at his terrorist organization’s new partner, the rival Fatah movement headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. His lengthy speech in Qatar, which has […]
Has Netanyahu ever heard of Lincoln’s phrase, “You cannot fool all of the people all of the time?”
“The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan…but the city…was perplexed.” – Book of Esther
Hamas rejects latest ceasefire proposal while Islamic Jihad says a truce is imminent. Rocket fire resumes at dawn.
The IDF fails to protect Jewish drivers in Judea and Samaria from Arab rock-throwing terrorists.
PA Arabs stoned an Egged bus near Halhoul, north of Hebron Wednesday. The attack took place near the site where the bodies of Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Sha'ar and Naftali Fraenkel were discovered on June 30. No injuries or property damage were reported.
By Rachel Levy
An international media outlet has caught Britain's Consul-General to Jerusalem, Alastair McPhail in a photo wearing the PA logo scarf.
Israel waited 12 hours to deny an agreement. Abbas talked with Mashaal while Shin Bet busted coup plot.
Israel will once again have turned victory into defeat if the rumored truce goes into effect at midnight
Hamas set up cells in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem and planned terrorist attacks on Temple Mount.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
PA claims - ISIS founded by US in order to destabilize and take control of the Middle East.
Israel ceased and Hamas fired. Reservists called up. IDF has not retaliated – yet..
Money can’t buy love from Hamas. It can by a short cease-fire. It can buy war. It can’t buy peace.
Official Facebook page of Fatah, headed by Mahmoud “Peace Partner: Abbas, boasts about leading Palestinians in terror.
Obama and Kerry give credit to Abbas for stopping terror while the IDF does the work.
Several hundred Arabs hurled rocks, firebombs and fireworks at IDF soldiers near Ramallah on Friday.
By JTA
President Raphael Correa of Ecuador canceled a planned visit to Israel later this because of the conflict in Gaza. “Obviously, after these events, we have canceled the visit,” Correa said , referring to Israel’s operation in Gaza. The cancellation came two days after Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced that Ecuador would open an embassy in […]
It’s because in Gaza, Hamas and the UNRWA are the same thing.
Israel more or less won the battle against Hamas, but has a poor of history of fighting the enemy known as “peace talks.”
Kerry is consistent. He has talked so much and promised so much that, like the peace process, his ceasefire delivered nothing.
Riots were widespread in Friday but there is no indication of a widespread “Arab Spring.”
Abbas faces the acid test of his clinging to power, but he is forced himself into a lose-lose-corner.
Friday, the end of Ramadan, will show whether the Palestinian Authority wants to renew the intifada.
One wishes the PA would distance itself completely from Hamas now for the sake of peace and development in the region.
Israel tells Hamas, “Your wish is our command.”
Egypt is trying to pull a fast one Israel to help itself to regain prominence.
The media establishment would love nothing more than inciting a full-scale civil war by Jerusalem Arabs.
The chief of Hamas police and a relative of former prime minister Haniyeh are among terrorist commanders who know longer exist.
Hamas, like the Palestinian Authority, is destroying itself.
Jameel asks if Israel has a moral obligation to shoot down Hamas rockets that will hit Palestinian Authority civilians. What do you think?
“I hope your death brings victory to Palestine” – mother of abducted and murdered Arab Abu Khudair.
The IDF continues to arrest PA Arab fugitives in Operation Brother's Keeper in Judea and Samaria.
Will the world ever understand exactly what Palestinian Authority terrorism is all about?
Fatah is as guilty as Hamas for the kidnap-murders because of its incitement for terror.
“If I shoot you at the same time as saying I renounce violence, that doesn’t really make much sense” – AP reporter
Too many jobs are at stake in the State Dept. for Kerry to dismantles the peace process industry.
FM Liberman is set to meet with US Secy of State Kerry on PA talks Thursday in Paris.
Abu Mazen may pay lip service to "peace," but new Fatah video shows true face of Palestinian revolutionary group.
“My friends all say I'm losing it big time…I'm going back there again/Back to the house of pain “ – Deep Purple
"They took him and cast him into the pit. (Gen. 37:24). Rashi: “There was no water; there were snakes and scorpions."
"I believe they will come back but if not, please be united. Be united.” - Racheli Frankel, mother of kidnap victim
Al-Razak had been previously arrested in connection to the kidnapping of Gilad Shalt.
"I'm an old hitchhiker, I wonder what's a waitin' ‘round the bend" - John Denver.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Close to 100,000 signatories have joined a petition demanding that the Government of Israel cut off the water and electricity supply provided by Israel to the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian Authority plans to bypass Western aid regulations by funnelling terrorist pensions through PLO
Palestinian Authority security forces beat journalists in Ramallah, confiscate equipment; media group calls for inquiry
Palestinian unity continues to crumble: Palestinian Authority security forces detained 16 Hamas supporters and issued summons to seven others across the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority Ma’an News Service reported Monday. The website reported that Hamas members, some as young as 16, were detained in Shechem, Ramallah and Hebron. In addition, seven people were summoned […]
By Rachel Levy
The coalition sharks are smelling blood - not from Israel's enemies, but rather from PM Netanyahu.
By Rachel Levy
The "only sane plan" is to annex Area C in Judea and Samaria, says Economy Minister Naftali Bennett. Coalition crisis ahead?
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Omar Barghouti, one of the leaders of the BDS movement, said "If the four men are brought before a court, then we should prosecute the Palestinian Authority for serving the Israeli occupation's project."
The Palestinian Authority has summoned Thomas Wilson, Australia’s ambassador to the P.A., for a dressing down over Canberra’s decision to remove the word “occupied” from eastern Jerusalem. According to Rotter, the Palestinian “foreign ministry” told the ambassador that the international community recognises the “fact” that the Palestinian capital is occupied.
In Gaza, Hamas beat back Fatah workers at local ATM machines. In Judea and Samaria, PA cops continue to arrest Hamas members.
By Shalom Bear
The NY Times doesn't understand Hamas or the Hezbollah model they are following.
In recent weeks, the eighth-graders started a team for the online game called “Jew Incinerator.”
By Rachel Levy
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Islamist terrorism is "rearing its head" in Europe - and yet the EU praises unity with Hamas.
Palestinian violence? Israel's fault. No peace in region? Israel's fault. Just don't spoil the lunch by mentioning incitement.
No unity today for the Fatah and Hamas terror groups trying to form a single government in the Palestinian Authority.
Just two days after the Pope visited Bethlehem, there was a fire in the Church of the Nativity. Coincidence?
The Palestinian Authority is hoping to use the upcoming visit by Pope Francis as a political pipebomb.
Now Hamas is being given a strategy for making acceptable its unalterable hostility towards the Jewish state.
Israeli MKs from Likud and Labor plan to submit a bill allowing Jews to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City.
By Anat Berko
Prisoners who smuggled sperm out of jail knew it was the only stage of the process they could monitor.
One of the first signs of Hamas gains in Judea and Samaria, due to the reconciliation between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, are the amount of Hamas flags that are being waved in PA controlled areas (or areas the PA controls at the moment) in Ramallah protests. Hamas is planning to openly run in elections […]
People who refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state are trying to “undermine the historic, moral and legal justification for the existence of the State of Israel as the national state of our people.” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Thursday during a tour of Independence Hall. He noted, “The Declaration of Independence sets, […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Tensions continue to rise as violent incidents increase in the Old City in Jerusalem.
Kerry has made such a mess that no matter what he says about Israel or the PA, he is wrong. And he is a diplomat?
Get ready for a media onslaught blaming for “war talk” that really is no different from the “peace talks.”
Rand Paul, looking for the key to the White House, is trying to turn around his image of not being pro-Israel.
The Boycott Movement, like the Palestinian Authority, is slowly but surely dissolving itself.
Turkey “will strongly support the reconciliation agreement and offer all humanitarian aid” for the Hamas-Fatah unity government that was announced Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Gaza’s de facto prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan became a fan of Hamas five years ago, at the same time relations with Israel […]
The Palestinian Authority has jailed more than 350 Arabs for "security" reasons in just 2014.
The last one out of the Peace Talks Cemetery is requested to please lock the gate and throw the key away.
The Palestinian Authority has granted itself its death wish, unless Obama wants to make a death wish for Israel.
Hatred of Israel is thicker than anybody’s blood.
The government’s approval of Jews moving into the Hebron building marks a return to a bit of political normalcy.
Card-carrying Israeli citizens in a totally Arab city in the western Galilee already are preparing celebrations for what they expect will be the return of their “heroes” who killed Israelis in terrorist attacks. The United States is trying to work out a deal with Israel to allow freeing several Arab terrorists with Israeli citizenship in […]
It won’t happen so soon, but it is only a matter of time until Jewish in Efrat finally can be like Jews in Tel Aviv.
Every time Kerry opens his mouth about his Peace Talks Follies, he only makes things worse, especially for himself.
No one has addressed question, “Why were plastic explosives laying around the PA office?”
By JTA
Israel’s Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Israel Defense Forces to bar a Palestinian runner from Gaza from participating in a marathon in Bethlehem but nevertheless recommended that he be allowed to participate in the race. Olympian Nader Masri, 34, had asked Israel’s military for permission to travel to the second Bethlehem marathon that […]
Carter still wears blinders that make him see that everything that Abbas does is for peace.
The Peace Process dummies think that Arabs play by Western rules while Islam says “you are allowed to lie in politics.”
By JoeSettler
The Arabs didn't miss an opportunity for peace. Their goal has always been something else entirely.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and who even wants to put him together again?
If not now, then later, the Arabs will again prove they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
A sports broadcaster would have his hands full trying to keep up with Wednesday’s fast-paced frantic Peace Talks Game.
“No I get by with a little help from my friends/Mm I get high with a little help from my friends” – the Beatles.
“Keeping Mr. Pollard on the bargaining table won’t salvage the talks.”
Abbas is the number one candidate for Best Actor of the Year in the Worst Play of the Century
Another bust of a terrorist ring exposes deeper Islamic and Hamas' roots in Jerusalem.
Obama is increasingly out of touch with reality.
The State Dept. has systematically covered up the truth that the Palestinian Authority teaches incitement against Israel.
Israel’s collective stomach is wrenching over the prospect of massive concessions for Pollard and more “peace talks.”
The traditional Arab-Muslim view of Jews is as an inferior dhimmi people, devoid of national rights.
Feel sorry for Pollard. He is doomed in jail but would feel doomed if freed in exchange for prisoners and “peace talks.”
The fact that Hamas and Gaza are two words that Kerry never mentions underscores his illusions.
Palestinian Authority rock-throwing terrorists struck again Monday afternoon on Highway 60 Earlier in the day, Arabs on the southern section of Highway 60 between Gush Etzion and Kiryat-Arba-Hevron, hurled rocks at soldiers on patrol. No one was injured. Israeli soldiers continue to be under orders not to fire at terrorists who use rocks and boulders […]
Kerry may force Israel to free more terrorist; the problem is he won’t take them with him when he leaves.
The world so much wanted to believe that the fatal bomb blast at the PA office in Prague was accidental. Not so fast.