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We started to look for a terrorist….Suddenly, a small boy appeared. The terrorist grabbed him and escaped with him.
The IDF readies what it does not want unless there is no alternative – a deep ground invasion of Gaza. Hamas also is ready.
Netanyahu, Ya’alon and Gantz’s comments: War until there is total quiet and everyone can sleep at night.
Deif may, or may not, have escaped the bombing raid. His wife, at least one of them, was killed. Is Haniyeh next?
The United States holds Hamas accountable for all rocket attacks on Israel, U.S. State Dept. spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters at the daily oppress briefing Tuesday. Asked if the rockets that broke the cease-fire were launched from Gaza, she said, “It came from Gaza, and Hamas has responsibility for Gaza.” Harf also that there has […]
People who made up stories about great miracles in the war lack the faith to see the everyday hidden miracles.
A course in Israeli cease-fire 101: Agree to UN and US promises and hold the bag when they are broken.
Israel ceased and Hamas fired. Reservists called up. IDF has not retaliated – yet..
Israel declared the war was over before it is over.
“The Holy One, blessed be He, hates a person which says one thing with his mouth and another in his heart” (Talmud - Pesachim 113b)
By Rachel Levy
Hamas has learned the art of kidnapping from Hezbollah. Israel neeeds to figure out quickly how to deal with that.
3:31pm IDF Spox notifications: Hamas terrorists killed two IDF soldiers during the suspected kidnapping of 2nd Lt. Goldin this morning. We suspect that a group of Hamas terrorists, including a suicide attacker, kidnapped 2nd. Lt. Goldin at 9:30AM & dragged him into a tunnel. If our suspicions about today's events are accurate, Hamas took advantage […]
By JoeSettler
JoeSettler uncovers the ultimate goal of Hamas in this war...
Israel's Chief Rabbis give ruling exempting IDF soldiers from fasting on Tisha B'Av.
The Gazans are now paying for the choices they have made.
“This is the most important gift for my son.”
One soldier's body is MIA, as IDF names remaining Golani soldiers killed in Shejaiya
10:03am Multiple Rocket Alerts Gush Dan...
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF is determined to destroy as many tunnels as possible, eliminating this imminent threat to the citizens of Israel. 23 terror tunnels have been uncovered by IDF forces since July 17th.
By JoeSettler
Peter Beinart asks that American rabbis lead prayers for Palestinian dead. JoeSettler agrees with Beinart...
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Gazan terrorists continued to fire rockets at Israeli civilian targets throughout the night.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Pick a rocket target and the new Israeli citizens will be moving there, to Beit Shemesh, Givat Shmuel, Hadera, Jerusalem, Karmiel, Modiin, Nes Tziona, Ra'anana, Ramat Beit Shemesh, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv and Beer Sheva.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Ukrainian Jews Receive Emergency Training from ZAKA and United Hatzalah.
No one wants a third war in Lebanon, but everyone expects it. Next time, the IDF wants no surprises.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Wednesday there are three choices on dealing with the Iranian threat – a bad deal, war or sanctions. “I would even say that a bad deal is liable to lead to the second, undesired, result,” he added. “There is no reason to submit to Iranian diktat; neither is […]
Universalism demands that war must answer to universal aims and objectives.
Today's anti-democratic glue is apparently better than the glue of Slavic identity that formed the "Warsaw Pact" because it is a world view and a cultural perspective.
Shamir’s blunder was even greater than Golda Meir’s in the Yom Kippur War.
Easily misrepresented or abused, international law can generally be manipulated to serve virtually any preferred geo-political strategy.
Israel has one life support. It starts with Yom Kippur.
You can catch glimpses of a city reeling from the incomprehensible.
By giving the issue to Congress, he evades sole responsibility and makes himself look "principled."
Approximately a dozen Israeli Air Force jetfighters carried out reconnaissance flights over Lebanon since Friday, reflecting the high alert over possible attacks on Israel if the United States attacks Syria. Hezbollah has tens of thousands of missiles in Lebanon and is fighting in Syria alongside loyalists to Syrian President Bassar al-Assad, who has threatened to […]
Numerous Danish Christian families hid Jews in their homes or farms, and then smuggled them to the seashore.
By Barry Rubin
The Obama Administration believes that it can reconcile with Islamist states.
While some lawmakers, including Sen. Bob Corker, republican of Tennessee, senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, are pressuring President Barack Obama to take military action against Syrian President Bashar Assad, Americans are not excited about the prospect of […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Cabinet Sunday morning that Syria falls into the same category as Iran when it comes to Israel’s having to strike first in order to defend itself against a threat that could destroy the country. Referring to the use of chemical weapons across the northern border, the Prime Minister said, […]
Nasser al-Wahishi provides a step-by-step assessment of what worked and what didn’t in Yemen.
By Ehud Tokatly
Whatever step that needs to be taken in pursuit of the war against terrorists will hence be considered legal.
The idea persists, despite the fact that — by any objective standard — the behavior of Israel is anything but expansionist and invasive.
By J. E. Dyer
The Gitmo Five were released without a prisoner exchange.
By Paula Stern
This morning, the jets have been flying and, child that I am inside, I keep going to my balcony and watching them.
Hollywood blockbuster portrays Israel as a shining example, dedicated to safety, security, and helping other nations in need.
An interview with Andrew R. Wilson, Professor of Strategy and Policy at the United States Naval War College.
Israeli Hospitals are leaders in the fields of emergency, trauma and mass-casualty preparedness.
By Noah Beck
With all prior Israeli withdrawals leading to violence, why is Obama so convinced that Israelis will now get land-for-peace instead of land-for-war?
When Mein Kampf was published, many people thought it was just words. They were wrong.
Monique Parsons of NPR happily goes along with Hamas-CAIR's ruse of using women and children as props for jihad.
By Barry Rubin
If they could have pressed a button and Israel would have disappeared, almost none of them would have hesitated.
By Mark Schulte
Most obituaries on Ed Koch paid scant attention to his military service in World War II.
Hezbollah is preparing for the next conflict with Israel.
How can anyone talk about the two-state solution when thousands of Palestinian children are being trained to use weapons and explosives to replace Israel with an Islamic state?
The media would rather spend its time lamenting Israel's fall to the far right by covering the rise of a party that says the twenty year old peace process has failed.
Boring is one of God's greatest gifts, especially for a soldier's mother.
France says that the UN Disengagement Observer Force may removed due to the fear of Syrian chemical weapons.
Syrian military is just waiting for the "go" order from the embattled President Bashar Al-Assad.
By Zev Golan
They are in their 80s and 90s now, but when the British ruled Eretz Yisrael they were teenagers, or maybe in their 20s. Their faces were on “wanted” posters and those who were caught went to prison or were exiled to Africa. They are the remnants of the most feared Jewish militia that fought the British – Lehi, commonly known as the Stern Gang. Every Chanukah they met in Tel Aviv, lit candles, shared some doughnuts and watched their numbers dwindle.
“Israel has bad public relations.” This is the perennial cry. “Israel must improve its image to convince the world of the justness of its cause.”
By Harold Rhode
Hamas has become a tool for both the Sunni and Shi'ite fundamentalists to use in their battle not only against the non-Muslim world, but against each other.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
Jacob and Esau are about to meet again after a separation of 22 years. It is a fraught encounter. Once, Esau had sworn to kill Jacob as revenge for what he saw as the theft of his blessing. Will he do so now, or has time healed the wound? Jacob sends messengers to let his brother know he is coming. They return, saying that Esau is coming to meet Jacob with a force of 400 men. We then read: “Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed” (Genesis 32:8).
By Tzvi Fishman
Just so the jolly little elves and white-bearded Santas don’t fool you, it pays to recall the truth about Christianity.
As Israeli air strikes and naval shells bombarded Gaza last week, the world asked the question that perennially frustrates, confuses and enrages so many people across the planet: Why aren’t the Americans hating on Israel more?
The imposed cease-fire — and it was imposed, by Barack Obama and his ally Mohammed Morsi — is not a victory.
According to Rav Meir Porush, it is better for Yeshiva students to sit in jail than to serve their country.
In Europe, Israel-bashing remains one of the favorite pastimes of the media.
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah broadcast from their place in line to vote in the Likud Primaries. They discuss candidates on the list and also what its like to vote in Israel. Yishai also interviews Moshe Feiglin
When my daughter first made aliyah she was a student at Hebrew University. After a year she called me and told me she was enlisting.
Voting got off to a sluggish start with technical difficulties.
By Harold Rhode
It hard to imagine that at least some of Israel's leaders do not understand the Muslim mindset.
By Barry Rubin
I’m amused by those who think that Hamas won the recent conflict.
Hamas is not interested in being engaged. Its goal is the destruction of Israel.
By Sheni Leumi
I am not ashamed to say I am an Israeli Jew, I am a loser today in the war with Hamas.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius outraged Tehran by placing the onus of “heavy responsibility” for the recent war between Israel and Gaza terrorists on Iran.
It’s that time of year again. Turkey, cranberry sauce and a harsh lesson in the reality of “land for peace” deals.
The fact that the casualty toll from the first days of the Gaza fighting was three Israelis and 30 Arabs “underscores what critics of Israeli policy called Israel’s disproportionate use of military force,” The New York Times reported on Nov. 17.
The latest lie-line of the Gaza propaganda machine is that Gaza has no army, no forces.
By Barry Rubin
This strategy has often worked against a Western adversary or Israel.
By Tzvi Fishman
Some people like the smell of napalm in the morning, but I love the smell of missiles.
Day 6 of the war with Gaza. Updates for Monday, November 19, 2012 9:12 PM IDF soldier kills Arab in Southern Mt. Hebron area. An Arab near Halhul attacked a soldier,in a kidnapping attempt. The soldier shot the terrorist. Simultaneous to the attack, Palestinian websites reported that an IDF soldier was kidnapped. It appears the […]
Once upon a time it was the objective of the military to win wars. Now the objective of the military is to avoid incidents.
By Barry Rubin
Originally published at Rubin Reports. A lot of people have asked the purpose of Israel’s defensive war against Hamas. Some, including those supposedly expert on the region, have been mystified. They cannot seem to figure out what is going on or what the goal of this Israeli operation could be. The answer is simple. Given […]
Crime must go on, even during a time of war in Israel. This morning, the residents of the town of Gan Yavneh, not far from Ashdod and well within the range of Gazan rockets, woke up to the sound of a loud explosion. An EMT unit rushed to the area and discovered a car that […]
By Barry Rubin
There will be no “permanent end” to this rocket war madness or all of the other varieties of madness that are getting worse in the region.
By Tzvi Fishman
What do you say to your son as he waits on the outskirts of Gaza? This is the message that I sent him.
By Barry Rubin
Can Israel sustain this situation? Of course, that is basically the framework in which it has been living and prospering for 64 years. Is it preferable? Of course not. What is the world going to do to make it better? Nothing.
The only thing that can prevent Israel from winning this mini-war and neutering Hamas is outside intervention.
The IDF's use of twitter has been called perhaps the most meaningful change in our consumption of war in over 20 years.
By Tzvi Fishman
The “Amud HaAnan” Operation which Tzahal has now undertaken is intended to protect our beleaguered citizens in the south. But it is much more than that.
I quickly lost count of how many rockets were fired at my country. At one point, the reporter was counting - "one, two, three, four, five, no six, seven, eight.
An IDF soldier on the Golan Heights was lightly injured by shrapnel from a stray mortar that shot from Syria as part of their civil war. An IDF soldier on the Golan Heights was lightly injured by a stray bullet that shot from Syria as part of their civil war.
In the coming hours, the smoke will continue to rise above Gaza.
For hundreds of thousands of Israelis living in the south, yesterday was tumultuous in the worst way. Unstemmed rocket attacks have been conducted by one or another of the terrorist groups based in Hamas-controlled Gaza at all hours of the day and night. While it's tempting to look at the absence of deaths on the Israeli side, the reality is any one of these rockets and mortars can easily have exacted the heaviest of prices. It's our great fortune that this did not happen today.
As Israel’s border with Gaza heats up, Israeli officials from the highest echelons have declared that the State will defend Israeli citizens.
Readers will notice that my blog, Sultan Knish, did not predict any Romney landslides. It did not engage in empty cheers or promise that he would win half the country and restore moral leadership. That's not what this site is about. This site is about the hard truths and now as we sit in the dark, let's pass out some of those around the room. We can blame Chris Christie, Sandy or Romney's last debate performance. But let's look at the actual election.
A massive war game simulation by the Institute for National Security Studies of the IDF’s engagement after a strike on Iran recently took place, illustrating Israel’s increasing preparedness for putting a military end to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
Nuclear weapons and nuclear war. This is not a new subject for my column in The Jewish Press. What is new is the urgent need to confront, head on, an expanding international movement to eviscerate Israel's nuclear posture – and at precisely the precarious moment when this critical posture should actually be made more visible, and hence, more compelling.
By Mark Schulte
A recent dispute between conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer and White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer centered on the Obama administration’s return to the British government in January 2009 of a bust of Winston Churchill, which had been kept in the Oval Office by President George W. Bush following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
By Barry Rubin
One of my most fun professional memories was when I walked endlessly, circling round and round and round that hall in Algeria in November 1988 with a burly, no-nonsense, and brilliant newspaper correspondent named Youssef Ibrahim, who was then working for the New York Times. Friendly, funny, sarcastic, and with absolutely no illusions or romanticism about the absurdities of Arab politics and the idiocies of Arab political ideology, Ibrahim’s only shortcoming is that there are not one thousand more exactly like him. If he was the kind of person leading Arab countries and people they would be far more prosperous, peaceful, happier and democratic.
June 26, 2026 
