Today’s Top Stories 1. Satellite images obtained by the Daily Telegraph show that a heavy water production facility in Arak is now operational. Steam and the unusual level of security is the big giveaway. Oh yeah, international inspectors have been denied access for 18 months. The striking image of steam over the Arak heavy-water complex […]
MK Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Bayit Yehudi) had strong criticism Wednesday for a European Union report that recommended a boycott targeting Israelis living in Judea and Samaria. The EU also condemned construction in majority-Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem. “We are again witness to blatant interference in internal Israeli policy, in such a way as to give one-sided […]
A shell fired from Syria hit Israel on Wednesday. The shell was found after residents of a Golan town reported hearing the whistle of incoming fire near their community. IDF soldiers searched the area and found a shell that had not detonated. Sappers neutralized the device. The IDF believes that the 100-mm shell was fired […]
U.S. President Barack Obama has no intention of releasing Jonathan Pollard from prison, despite the fact that over 70,000 thousand people have already signed onto an online petition calling for Pollard’s release, Channel 10 News reported on Wednesday. The report cited close associates of Obama as having said, “The President does not understand why he […]
Inmate Death: What the Media Chose to Ignore February 27, 2013 14:13 by Alex Margolin When is a terrorist not a terrorist? Apparently, when it doesn’t fit the media’s narrative, like the coverage of Arafat Jaradat, who died in an Israeli prison this week. Jaradat, a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was arrested for […]
America has been buzzing about the dresses, the stars, the winners, and the hit films all week. But the most important part of the Oscars is a real-life drama that is still playing out. It is not unusual for Hollywood actors to use their stardom to bring attention to human rights and humanitarian causes. But […]
Smith/MCT/Newscom The White House warns that sequestration “would reduce loan guarantees to small businesses by up to $902 million”—loans that it claims are “investments that are helping grow our economy.” Setting this flawed Keynesian line of thinking aside, it’s worth investigating whether or not there is room to reduce spending at the Small Business Administration […]
To understand what’s going on in the Supreme Court today, we have to go back in time. The year was 1965. Hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama, to march for black Americans’ right to vote. Some states, especially in the South, had set up obstacles to voting, such as charging would-be voters money or […]
by Daniel Pipes Gatestone Institute February 25, 2013 Terrorism broadly takes two forms: against random individuals who happen to be at a market place or on a bus at the wrong time; or against specific individuals because of who they are. The latter in turn divides into two: against broad categories of people (the military, […]
The senior Israeli Prime Minister’s Office employee whose documents were stolen in a home break-in has been identified as Dr. Shaul Horev. Dr. Horev is a member of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. The bag the thieves took contained a wallet, as well. It was revealed Tuesday that Horev and his wife were at home […]
