On Thursday evening, the IDF caught two Arab terrorists that had earlier in the evening thrown multiple fire bombs at buses and cars near Beit El.
Residents of the "Nof" neighborhood of Beit El found themselves under a barrage of stones this evening as they were outside building their Sukkahs. The Arab assailants were very surprised to discover that these Beit El residents weren't very passive when it came to responding to the Arab attacks. The Beit El residents quickly reacted, […]
By Barry Rubin
The greatest danger for Israel would be to listen to the bad advice of Obama, Kerry, and their supporters.
The restrictions Beinart condemns today came because of Palestinian terror, not the other way around.
Grant Jordanian citizenship and basic human rights to Jordan’s Palestinian majority.
On Tuesday afternoon, Arabs in Hebron threw stones and shot slingshots at homes in Beit Hadassah and Beit Schneerson. Arabs have also been throwing stones at cars in Gush Etzion, and at a bus near the Old City's Damascus Gate. In the Binyamin region, Arabs have been throwing firebombs at cars on the road. The […]
Palestinian leaders have legitimized Israel to the point where it has become a "crime" for any Palestinian to be seen talking to, much less negotiating with any Israeli.
Islam is undergoing a modern crisis which perhaps only its clerics and lay leaders can rescue it from.
Beware of false friends. Ban Ki-moon tries to soften up Israel by admitting that the U.N. sometimes is biased against Israel, but not to worry, because peace is on the way.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai is joined by Neil Kressel author of, “The Sons of Pigs and Apes”: Muslim Anti-Semitism and the Conspiracy of Silence”. YIshai and Kressel discuss his book how it analyzes the extremist Muslim threat to Western liberalism.
The Palestinian authorities have finalized the preparations for the release of 26 prisoners, seen as a confidence building gesture from Israel to help sweeten the bitter pill of resuming direct peace talks. Officials said Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will head the reception ceremony Tuesday night at the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) headquarters, where senior […]
There's no better way to celebrate the end Ramadan than with mass executions, or at least that's what Hamas believes.
By Danny Danon
Like Erekat, Indyk has been a major player in the peace industry since the early 1990s, and he also can point to zero achievements in bringing peace and prosperity to our region.
By Batya Medad
Faux peace, implemented by "treaties" is external and wears off, like the "democracy" of the "Arab Spring," which has been proven a deadly farce.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Actions are being considered to prevent these attacks in the future.
Since a majority of Palestinians cannot envision mutual recognition even after all issues are resolved and they get a state, they see it as merely a pause before the conflict would begin anew.
Although Palestinians can receive medical treatment in Gaza, many turn to Israeli hospitals for more advanced care.
By Shalom Bear
A Mina Tzemach poll results publicized yesterday, indicate that most Israelis don't have much hope for the current Peace negotiations.
Apparently only the Palestinian Authority is to receive "gestures" for peace talks.
Overnight, terrorists threw four firebombs at the Gush Etzion checkpoint near the tunnel entrance to Jerusalem. There were no injuries or damage from the attacks.
John Kerry’s effort to revive the Middle East peace process has posed an interesting challenge to the Palestinians.
Kerry's plan to boost the Palestinian economy has hardly impressed the Palestinian Authority leadership.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian has called terrorists convicted of murder or attempted murder 'political prisoners.'
By Barry Rubin
If billions of dollars have not bought PA support for a two-state solution in 20 years why should anything change now?
By Batya Medad
There's nothing new in journalists trying to make news; they just can't make facts out of lies.
A situation has arisen in Judea and Samaria where attempted murder — and sometimes the attempts are successful — is a daily occurrence.
Palestinians claim that the mere presence of Jewish visitors is a 'desecration' of the holy site.
According to Sivan Hendel of the Peres Center for Peace, 'Sports is an international language.'
By Adam Levick
The Palestinian “refugee” swindle is but one of the many political derivatives of the Palestinian narrative which so often passes for serious journalism at the Guardian.
Praising Abbas for instructing his security forces to stop torturing Palestinian detainees is like welcoming a convicted armed robber's promise to retire.
Arab stone throwing and other violent disturbances near Efrat continues. Following in the footsteps of the pipe bomb found near the northern entrance last week, a girl was hurt Thursday when rocks were thrown at a car she was riding in. A number of cars were hit and damaged near Efrat's northern entrance. Last week […]
The area around Rachel's Tomb has been fortified, cement barriers erected to protect those wishing to pray beside her grave.
The entire Land of Israel, have been the subject of incessant Islamic reinvention.
By Batya Medad
True peace is something that evolves when neither side aims to destroy the other one.
By Adam Levick
The Guardian took the hideous claim that the IDF fired mercilessly at a young boy until he was dead at face value, without even a hint of journalistic skepticism.
Palestinian youths from Hebron, though, who met with Israelis near Bethlehem to share their problems and insights have been forced to issue a statement distancing themselves from the meeting.
When in 1948 President Harry Truman recognized the new Jewish State of Israel, Einstein declared it 'the fulfillment of our dream.'
Palestinians in Lebanon are subjected to apartheid laws that deny them work, social and health benefits, and freedom of movement.
In the snake pit of academia, where unfashionable explicit Jew-hatred has morphed into enthusiastic and widespread over-the-top anti-Zionism, Professor Tammi Rossman-Benjamin stands out.
It was only in 20120 that Geneva Initiative featured Jibril Rajoub in their 'peace partner' ad campaign.
Jordan’s annexation of the East Jerusalem was never recognized by the international community.
The Arab League is an incompetent and ineffectual body that has long been ridiculed by most Arabs.
If anyone is restricted in Jerusalem today - it is we Jews, who are not allowed to move our lips in a whispered prayer, on the Temple Mount. But for today, I will think of the greater celebration.
While the Palestinian refugee crisis needs to be solved, it should be solved in the Arab world, not in Israel.
It's a mistake to think that it's only the Islamist ultra-extremists of Hamas that are busy promoting self-destruction among the children of Palestinian Arab society.
By Barry Rubin
The Palestinian Authority is in a box of its own making. It cannot win militarily against Israel, nor will it engage in serious diplomacy with Israel.
By Barry Rubin
Perhaps if Western states studied its policies rather than endlessly criticized them they might gain from the experience.
Israel has never stopped Palestinians from holding free elections or implementing administrative and financial reforms.
Multiple Shooting attacks have been reported in the Shomron in the past 10 minutes (5:03 pm). One occurred between Karnei Shomron and Yitzhar (Tzir Gilad), one person has been injured. MDA is responding. In the second shooting attack also near Gilad farm, a number of Israeli cars were hit, but no injuries were reported.
In one anti-Israel protest outside of Nablus, Palestinians even dressed up like Native Americans in order to make a political point.
The United States pays about 22% of the UN’s budget, which amounted to almost than $8 billion in 2010.
PA officials and journalists later explained that the ban does not apply to some journalists working for the Israeli daily Ha'aretz and who report on 'Palestinian suffering.'
One must presume that President Obama’s most recent calls for Israeli cooperation in the Middle East peace process are balanced, fair, and well-intentioned. Why not? At the same time, unsurprisingly, these all-too-familiar calls are manifestly thin, in the sense that they lack any genuine intellectual content.
Ordinary Syrians are paying with their lives for the double-talk about the 'refugees.'
The very word "hero" was used by the Jordanian justice minister in joining the chorus calling for the release of a convicted terrorist.
Honor is a concept that is paramount in non-Western cultures, but sometimes it seems that the West has no clue about.
Fayyad has no grassroots support or political power bases among Palestinians.
By Batya Medad
Even the United Nations seems occupied with problems in the Middle East much greater than anything going on in Israel.
In the mainstream media version, the IDF killed peaceful protesters. In reality, the terrorists were throwing firebombs at an army post.
The global media are roiling about the death of the terminally-ill Abu Hamdiyeh. Try googling for any mentions the one who died at the hands of Hamas.
A sentence has not been pronounced yet, but the murderer of Asher Palmer and his infant son Yonathan faces the possibility of a life sentence.
Here's the response the New York Times didn't print regarding its feature on the Palestinian village that spawned the terrorist who killed our daughter.
The heat being generated from the Keystone controversy may well have had an influence upon Obama's gaffe in comparing U.S.-Canada relations to Israel-Palestinian relations.
By Daniel Pipes
This will likely be Obama's most important, most lasting and most constructive contribution to Arab-Israeli diplomacy.
By Barry Rubin
Obama has not abandoned the pro-Islamist policy that has created a far more dangerous security situation for Israel.
Like the rest of the Arab and Islamic countries, Palestinians have been told that the U.S. is the "Great Satan" and the number one enemy of all Arabs and Muslims.
President Obama, perhaps inadvertently, made the case for U.S.-Israel relations grounded in the most fundamental shared values.
If Israel can maintain itself with an Arab minority of 20%, "Palestine" can't be a state with 17% Jews?
By Daniel Pipes
To understand Obama's visit to Israel, the next four years, and European Union diplomacy, keep this strange and contorted logic in mind
Mariam wanted her sons to die a glorious Jihad death, taking as many innocent lives as possible with him. If there was one thing Mariam was not, it was a mother.
Unlike some of his biggest detractors, I believe that the President actually likes Israel and values the friendship of the Israeli people.
Obama's visit is costly and complicated, and will have objectives that the President thinks are important, like Israeli withdrawals.
Hamas wants Palestinians civilians, especially babies, to be killed precisely so that they can display the kind of photographs that were shown around the world.
At around 10 PM, Egged bus #59 was hit by Arab stone throwers as it drove through French Hill, in the northern part of Jerusalem. One passenger was taken to Hadassah Har HaTzofim hospital, after being injured in the head with a stone.
By Daniel Pipes
Publishing house Palgrave Macmillan apologized for appearing to endorse "the Palestinian struggle."
By Adam Levick
The damage done by the now iconic image of Misharawi clutching his slain child can not be ameliorated by even the clearest retractions.
People are not influenced by rational argument, but rather by emotion, so make your appeals powerful and emotional.
By Batya Medad
We keep hearing these fantasies which claim that there's a safe and just way to divide up Judea and Samaria between Jews and Arabs, which is preposterous.
When and if Obama visits, he will be reminded of the fact that many Palestinians continue to regard the U.S. as an enemy, not a friend.
Arabs escalated their Temple Mount riots from stones to firebombs.
We'll be here, Mr. President, long after you have turned to dust, your memory not even a breeze in the wind.
When push comes to shove, today’s liberals, even “strong supporters of Israel” like Chuck Schumer, are Obama supporters first.
Arab MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) doesn’t allow us to flee from ourselves. She holds an intelligent, scathing and vital mirror to our faces.
Obama’s policy is Saudi policy. That is where the irrational push to create a Palestinian state comes from, and that is where the handcuffs on the IDF are forged.
I believe it is because of Obama's upcoming visit. The Palestinians have been cooking up this idea of when and how to put on the pressure.
It now remains to be seen whether Obama is aware of this attempt to put pressure on him, or whether he will continue to turn a blind eye.
Barack Obama will bravely step in to take the political risks necessary to once and for all save Israel and the Palestinians from each other — which he will do by forcing more concessions from Israel, yet again.
Today, it is clearer than ever that neither Hamas nor Fatah is interested in achieving unity -- each for its own reasons.
I have seen thousands of Palestinians - in our stores, on our trains, in our cities. I have never seen any being harassed.
Palestinian terror seeks national self-determination but shouts endlessly to the world that even after statehood violence will continue against 'The Jews.'
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Feeling abandoned, some residents of Judea and Samaria are taking security into their own hands.
The criticism focused on the fact that Livni will be given a leading role in negotiations with the Palestinians, by the Likud said the Prime Minister will lead the negotiating team.
A clear explanation of what international law is and is not, and how it applies to some of the controversies around the Jewish state.
It seems that over the top anti-Zionism often comes from Jews.
For the Palestinians and for the Arab/Islamic world as a whole, the "Zionist Problem" is merely a surface manifestation of the "Jewish Problem."
The downfall of the Mubarak regime has been a great blessing for Hamas, which has since emerged as a major player in the Palestinian and regional arena.
Early in his first term Obama tried to similarly link Israeli peace efforts and U.S. action on Iran's nuclear program.
By Batya Medad
Israel needs to become more confident in the justice of its cause.