The Rafah crossing will be permanently opened in 7-10 days Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Elarby told Al Jazeera on Thursday. The move comes as relations between post-Mubarak Egypt and Israel appear to be taking a dangerous turn. The Egyptian pipeline carrying gas to Israel was blown up early Wednesday by terrorists leaving Israel, who gets 40% […]
The Palestinian Authority has carried out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threat to “wipe Israel off the map” and literally has done so by displaying maps of “Palestine” covering all of Israel at the same time its leaders talk about “two states for two people.” PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Fatah movement that controls […]
Gaza has become a terrorist state, President Shimon Peres said in a meeting with foreign ambassadors. “Hundreds of thousands of mothers and their children in southern Israel cannot sleep at night as a result of the rocket attacks from Gaza,” he said. The ambassadors hailed from countries represented on the United Nations Security Council, as […]
Security forces in Gaza located overnight Thursday the body of Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian member of the anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement (ISM), who had been kidnapped by Salafist Muslims earlier. Hamas officials, who reported that Arrigoni’s body had been found, added that the body had been found in an abandoned home in Gaza. Earlier, the […]
Arab-affairs expert Prof. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University says Israel would be “clearly suicidal” in enabling a Palestinian state, in light of the revolutionary fever sweeping the Arab world. In the latest edition of his weekly column entitled “Middle Eastern Insights,” Kedar writes that given the calls in Egypt to abrogate its peace treaty […]
How Moral Equivalence Erodes Accurate Reporting When Judge Richard Goldstone published his famous op-ed reconsidering the Goldstone Report, he – perhaps unintentionally – revealed one of the predominant biases of the Goldstone Committee that produced the report. The committee, it appears, was operating under a deep-set assumption of moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. The […]
by Daniel Pipes April 15, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Note the pattern of Palestinians who murder the groupies and apologists who join them to aid in their dream of eliminating Israel. Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, killed in January 1984, perhaps by Palestinians. Ziva Goldovsky, an 18-year-old […]
Gaza terrorists continued to pepper southern Israel with rocket attacks on Sunday despite talk of a “ceasefire.” A Kassam rocket exploded Sunday afternoon in an open area of the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council district. No one was injured and no damage was reported in the attack. Three Kassam and Grad missile attacks that were followed […]
Stories the Media Missed With the international media’s attention fixed on Libya and Japan, Israel has found itself out of the usual media glare up until Wednesday’s bombing in Jerusalem. This would ordinarily be a good thing. Instead, however, with less column inches available for other world news, editors have indulged in selective reporting or […]
The Palestinian Authority is “becoming notorious for assaulting and intimidating journalists” and causing some self-censorship by local reporters, according to the Human Rights Watch organization. The report may partially explain media bias against Israel. Human Rights Watch, which traditionally has focused on allegation of rights abuses in Israel, stated that Palestinian Authority intimidation has caused […]
