Threats of a lawsuit against a firm supplying communications equipment to the IHH flotilla may stop the ships from sailing for Hams-controlled Gaza without a shot being fired. The flotilla is scheduled to sail later this month. Shurat HaDin (Israel Law Center) announced Monday that it has warned the Inmarsat mobile satellite services company that […]
A ship flying US colors and carrying 34 passengers is set to joint this year’s Gaza-bound, IHH-sponsored “Freedom Flotilla 2” in June, the New York Times reported. So-called “peace activists” on the first IHH flotilla in May 2010 ambushed Israeli naval commandos who boarded the ship in accordance with international law, attempted to take them […]
Dr. David Bukaee, an expert on the Arab world, says Israel must prepare well for Sunday, in which Arabs will mark the anniversary of their defeat at Israel’s hands in 1967. Bukaee said that the Arabs “keep looking for excuses” for violence against Israel, and that is why they came up with the concept of […]
Tuesday night and Wednesday are Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day. Here’s a neat little video that summarizes 4,000 years of Jerusalem and Jewish history in five minutes. Note that Arab Muslims are no more than a blip on the historical screen and the faux Palestinians have roots in Jerusalem that are as shallow and anti-historical as […]
Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer is a possible candidate to head the International Money Fund but has made no final decision, according to a post on The Wall Street Journal’s financial matters blog. IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was charged with rape in New York earlier this month, resigned the post on May 18. […]
Major General (res.) Amos Gilad, Director of Policy and Political-Military Affairs at the Israel Ministry of Defense, made a brief trip Thursday to Cairo to meet with Egyptian officials. Israeli security officials confirmed Gilad was in Cairo where he was expected to meet with senior Egyptian officials to discuss, among other things, “the Schalit deal.” […]
Despite their open hostility to Israel, Iranian officials recently tried to purchase military equipment formerly owned by the Jewish state, Spanish officials have reported. A group of five Spanish businessmen and three Iranians were arrested in Spain as the former attempted to sell the latter nine Bell-112 military transport helicopters formerly used by Israel. Police […]
Hordes of Gaza Arabs rushed through into Sinai Saturday morning, as Egyptian authorities opened the Rafiah crossing, this time on a permanent basis, they said. Egyptian officials said that the crossing operated smoothly on its first day, and Gaza Arabs interviewed by reporters praised the opening, calling Egypt “very brave” for the move. The crossing […]
A cynic may be excused for saying that there was vintage Chicago in Barack Obama’s recently concluded trip to Europe. It started with the Irish and finished with the Poles and, at the Warsaw ghetto Memorial, the president even met with some Polish Jews to assure them that he would be there for Israel. The […]
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper proved himself to be Israel’s champion at the G8 summit last week. Despite intense pressure, Harper blocked calls to force Israel into final status talks based on the 1949-1967 Armistice lines, with land swaps. He also opposed major aid packages to Egypt and Tunisia, where continued unrest has dogged transitional governments […]
