A video shows an IDF officer offering water to Arab protesters on a sweltering day. An Arab woman dumped the water on the ground, and other protesters then threw rocks at the troops. The protest took place during on an unusually hot and dry day near Bethlehem, immediately south of Jerusalem and adjacent to Efrat […]
The IDF is training special units to fight in tunnels in Gaza and southern Lebanon, Ahram Online reports. It was reported Wednesday that every soldier in the new tunnel warfare units will be equipped with a ‘robot’ capable of transmitting high-resolution video images from inside the tunnels, which are used by Hamas in Gaza and […]
by Daniel Pipes June 13, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Israel’s military prowess – operational and technological alike – is renowned; but the Jewish state, population 7.7 million, is no less impressive in other areas too: High technology: “Over the past two decades Israel has been transformed from a semisocialist backwater into […]
If it’s June, it must be time for La Bourget – the Paris Air Show, one of the most important showcases for military, defense, and aviation products and developments. This year marks the 49th anniversary of the show, which begins June 20, and Israel will, once again, put on display some of the groundbreaking defensive and […]
The term “country club prison” is usually associated with the terms of imprisonment for non-violent white-collar criminals – but in Israel, it’s the hardened terrorists who do “easy time,” at least when it comes to communicating with the outside world. While garden-variety miscreants are isolated from society during their jail terms, Hamas and Fatah terrorists […]
Leaked: Assad Regime Tied to Israel Border Riots We criticized the media for taking Syrian propaganda at face value in the wake of incidents on the Israeli-Syrian border. Unverified casualty figures were broadcast despite their being based solely on Syrian claims. Despite the media’s romanticism for a story of Palestinian “refugees” attempting to return to […]
Miami Lies: Herald Publishes Apartheid Smear Op-Ed The Miami Herald has seen fit to publish an op-ed by Samah Sabawi who is described as a policy advisor for Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. A look at Al-Shabaka’s website reveals the organization: provides a platform for diverse Palestinian viewpoints within the framework of the vision and […]
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas wants to “climb down from the tree” and restart talks with Israel, but can’t due to widespread pressure, the Associated Press reported Thursday. According to PA sources several senior PA officials are advising Abbas to forgo plans to seek a unilateral declaration of PA statehood at the UN in September […]
Continuing its policy of denying Jerusalem’s Jewish heritage the Palestinian Authority publicized the claims of an Arab researcher that the well-known ancient Hebrew psalm, “If I forget three, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill,” is not Jewish at all, the Israeli research institute Palestininian Media Watch reports. [youtube jBlj2YMRtuQ nolink] Instead, Dr. Hayel Sanduqa insists the […]
Hamas is reporting record turnouts for its summer camps for children in 2011. The ‘summer camps,’ combining Islamic indoctrination, paramilitary training, and social activities are set to begin again this year as United Nation’s summer camps, considered competition by Hamas, are being openly denigrated by jihadists. Children and adolescents are an important target demographic for […]
