Whether by accident or by deliberate osmosis, Israel and the U.S. have adopted similar solutions to their existential problems. Before 2002, during the various Palestinian intifadas, Israel suffered hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries from suicide bombers freely crossing from the West Bank and Gaza into Israel. In response, Israel planned a vast border […]
Last Friday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei held a very rare sermon after the obligatory Friday prayers. The move was clearly related to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) by the US Army on January 3rd. The IRGC can take the fight […]
The New York Times’ reporting on Israel and Jewish affairs is regularly critiqued by us, but in this case, a story, penned by Isabel Kershner about Jewish women learning the Talmud, is positive and well-balanced. Which may be exactly why British newspaper The Independent, which subsequently republished the article, felt the need to change the […]
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez appointed as his deputy a politician who has called Israel an “illegal country” and hosted a talk show with allegedly anti-Semitic content that aired on an Iranian-funded TV station. The appointment Thursday of Pablo Iglesias Turrión, leader of the far-left Podemos party, follows an election in November that forced the […]
A Ukrainian diplomat told Israel to butt out of the debate about honoring of Nazi collaborators. Thursday’s intervention by Gennady Nadolenko, head of Ukraine’s diplomatic mission in Tel Aviv, reflects an escalation in the disagreement between Israel and Ukraine over the issue. The subject is related to “internal issues of Ukrainian politics” and Israel’s protests […]
Amb. Friedman explains US’ considerations when deciding to recognize Jerusalem, Golan, Judea, & Samaria. All are within the lines of law. US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Wednesday spoke at the Kohelet Forum Conference, emphasizing that Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria are not in violation of international law. “A little bird has told […]
TEL AVIV – Three Jewish Israelis have been indicted for praying at Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem, violating a ban on Jewish prayer at the holy site. The three men, two of whom are IDF soldiers, were “caught” reciting the “Shema,” Judaism’s most famous prayer, in front of the Dome of […]
The Turkish government is hosting Hamas terrorists on its soil and permitting them to plan terror attacks on Israeli targets, a report released by The Telegraph Tuesday night claims. According to the report, transcripts of Israeli police interrogations of terrorists show that senior Hamas terrorists are using Istanbul as a center for the terror group’s […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed back Monday against congressional Democrats who demanded that the Trump administration retract its declaration last month that it views Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria as legal under international law. In a letter penned by Pompeo Monday and sent to Rep. Andy Levin of Michigan, who authored the Democratic […]
“Do you know what the meaning of the Israeli flag is? …. It is white with two blue lines. The two lines represent two rivers, and in between is Israel. The rivers are the Nile and the Euphrates.” Yasser Arafat, Interview with Playboy, September 1988. It may seem ridiculous, but across the Middle East, people […]
