Gaza terrorists committed a major faux pas on Wednesday afternoon by launching a rocket attack on Rafiah instead of southern Israel. The missile, apparently intended for Jewish communities in the western Negev, instead struck a residential neighborhood in the city that straddles the Gaza border with Egypt. One woman suffered shrapnel wounds when the missile […]
In the hours after the terrible terrorist attack near Eilat that left 8 Israelis dead and many more wounded, what was the BBC’s headline story? Once again, in true BBC style, the story is not about a terrorist attack on Israelis but on Israeli counter-measures, presented as aggressive actions. And what did the BBC choose […]
Why is it that the New York Times still cannot distinguish the moral differences between Palestinian terror and Israeli measures to defend its citizens? Take a look at this headline and accompanying photo from the NY Times’ August 20 story: Why did the NY Times purposely choose an emotive image of a Palestinian child’s funeral? […]
Two Arab youths were arrested Wednesday morning for hurling rocks at a fire engine overnight in the northern village of Jisr a-Zarka. Firefighters fended off the two youths, ages 15 and 16, by firing shots in the air to scare them off. Police who were later called to the scene questioned the firefighters prior to […]
A day after Arutz Sheva reported that the Magen David Adom first aid organization is planning to remove its trademark red Star of David symbol from ambulances used in Israeli towns east of the 1949 armistice line, it appears as though a compromise has been reached. In a telephone conversation on Tuesday evening, Yesha Council […]
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who has served as chairman of the PA two years beyond his term, now has delayed local elections for third time and without setting a new date. According to the PA constitution, Abbass term ended two years ago, and Hamas has latched on to the lack of a new vote […]
A Libyan rebel holds a Kingdom of Libya flag at Bab Al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli August 23, 2011. Joyful Libyan rebels overran Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli bastion on Tuesday, seizing weapons and loot and destroying symbols of a 42-year dictatorship they declared was now over as they set about hunting down the fallen ruler and his […]
A recent report by the National Urban Area Initiative Association attempts to demonstrate that the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grant program, created in 2003, is an effective homeland security program. Administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the UASI program allocates grant funding to help high-risk, high-density urban areas develop the capacity “to […]
Syrian President Bashar Assad took advantage of the interview he gave to Syrian state television on Sunday and responded to U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for him to resign by saying Obama himself should resign. Assad said in the interview that the U.S. stands alongside Israel who commits crimes against Arabs and Palestinians. What the […]
by Daniel Pipes August 22, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online Many are ready to party about the political demise of the hated, eccentric, and foul Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi as rebel troops move into Tripoli. I am not partying. Here’s why not. The NATO intervention in March 2011 was done without due diligence as to who […]
