An Australian man is in court for assaulting a Jewish man and making anti-Semitic remarks during a protest against Israel. Brendon Lee O’Connell, 38, is accused of telling Stanley Keyser, who is Jewish, “You think the world revolves around you. You have a religion of racism, hate, homicide, and ethnic cleansing.” O’Connell is also accused […]
by Daniel Pipes January 4, 2011 Mark Lavie, a long-time Associated Press reporter in Israel, should know a thing or two about the politics in that country. But he writes today at “Israel’s Labor: We’ll quit if no progress to peace” about tensions in the ruling coalition that An exit by Labor, a moderate party […]
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas told Arab television network Al-Jazeera Saturday that he had reached agreements with Ehud Olmert – when Olmert was prime minister – that Jerusalem would not be divided. The two leaders agreed, he said, that Jerusalem would remain open to all religions and would have two municipalities operating side by side, one […]
French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie was attacked by a mob in Gaza on Friday morning. Her attackers were enraged over statements she had allegedly made the day before supporting human rights for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Alliot-Marie was mobbed as she entered Gaza, with a crowd surrounding her car, pounding on its windows, and […]
The Turkel Commission, which investigated last May’s incident on the Mavi Marmara, will submit on Sunday the first part of its report to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, following which the report will be presented to the public. The report is expected to clear the IDF of any wrongdoings in the flotilla incident. It will determine […]
Palestinian Authority representatives, who arrived on Wednesday at the Arab League’s economic summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, came equipped with an armload of financial requests, mainly consisting of requests for donations of tens of millions of dollars aimed at investing in Jerusalem. The PA had asked for a sum of $150 million, for projects in tourism […]
More than five years after Israel’s ‘disengagement’ from Gaza and despite recent assurances from the Israeli government that it is making every effort to give the Jewish expellees from Gush Katif a permanent home, there is still a great concern among them. According to Mazal Cohen, one of the founders of the community of Gadid […]
MK Yaakov “Ketzaleh” Katz (National Union) toured this past Tuesday the underground housing sites in Jerusalem in which young couples mostly live, due to the severe shortage of homes for younger people. The tour included the Bayit Vegan neighborhood as well as neighborhoods located in the northern part of the city. Katz, who was joined […]
Israeli tanks and bulldozers crossed several hundred feet into Gaza Tuesday afternoon and killed one terrorist after a bomb exploded near an Israel patrol vehicle at the Gaza separation/security barrier. Earlier in the day, another roadside bomb was discovered and detonated by sappers. The IDF vehicle was not damaged, and the soldiers escaped injury. The […]
Four Jordanian terrorists born in areas now controlled by the Palestinian Authority are on trial in Jordan for recruiting for the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to the Associated Press. One of the four is Isam Mohammed Taher al-Barqawi, the mentor of Iraqi Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Al-Barqawi, born in Shechem, is also known as […]
