A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable, Germany’s new Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on his first official visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Guido Westerwelle, of the Free Democratic Party, also urged quick resumption of Middle East peace talks, with a two-state solution as the goal. Meeting Monday in Jerusalem with his Israeli counterpart, Avigdor […]
By Patrick Goodenough, International Editor This screenshot from a video clip shows Anne Bayefsky speaking at the stakeout microphone at the U.N. on November 5, 2009. A U.N. security guard hovers behind her. (Image: Eye on the UN video clip) (CNSNews.com) – After being denied access to United Nations headquarters for two weeks, one of […]
From VirtualJerusalem.com: Responding to a rocket attack on southern Israel on Wednesday, the Israeli air force struck deep in Gaza during the night. The IAF targets included factories used in the production of arms near Khan Younis and two tunnels used for weapons smuggling. The tunnels were located in the south of the Gaza region, […]
The only Jewish Republican in Congress said the Jewish community needs to “remove the blinders from our eyes”and speak out more vocally against threats to Israel and the Jewish people. “Many men are pointing guns at Israel, indeed at Jews, everywhere,” said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor in Washington at the opening session of the […]
Anti-Zionists say the Jewish claim to Israel is illegitimate because, before 1948, it had been nearly 1,900 years since Jews exercised sovereignty there – and it is absurd to argue that any group still has rights to land they last governed such a long time ago. But on what basis do they say the Arabs […]
The Jewish world is only nine days away from commemorating the 24th anniversary of Jonathan Pollard’s incarceration – barring a miraculously dramatic development. Pollard was arrested on Nov. 21, 1985, and subsequently convicted on one count of passing classified information to an ally – Israel. The sentence for this crime has generally been 2-4 years, […]
Iran is ready to launch its second homemade spy satellite, with the Safir 2 rocket (Messenger of Ambassador) already in position on its pad, DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report. The new satellite weighs 200 kgs, ten times more than Omid 1 (Hope), which was successfully tested only ten months ago, on Feb. 2. Tehran’s […]
Israel delivered 20,000 swine flu vaccines to the Palestinian Authority ahead of the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The Civil Administration in the West Bank, a unit in the Israeli Ministry of Defense, arranged for the entry Thursday of 20,000 doses of swine flu vaccine into Ramallah via the Kalandiya crossing. This year, Saudi Arabian […]
By Aaron Klein JERUSALEM – The White House has not released any official photos of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting this week with President Obama – just one of several signs indicating a rift between the two leaders. Netanyahu arrived in the U.S. last weekend to address a convention of Jewish leaders. The prime minister’s […]
From Newsmax.com: Israel’s Mossad spy agency hacked a Syrian official’s computer to uncover information about a nuclear facility in Syria that Israel later destroyed, according to a report in the German magazine Der Spiegel. Mossad agents planted a Trojan horse program on the official’s computer while he was staying at a hotel in London. The […]
