Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki announced that the PA is preparing legal action against Britain for issuing the Balfour declaration almost 100 years ago. Since the Mideast conflict is so messed up, why stop with Balfour? The PA should also sue Britain and France (for the the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement), Britain and the Husseini family (for […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel would upgrade its ties with the 28-member NATO military alliance by opening a permanent mission to its Brussels headquarters. “I declare that Israel will accept the invitation and open an office, in the near future,” Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting. “The countries of the world want […]
Gaza’s ongoing sewage problem is getting worse, experts warn, and the consequences could have direct impact on the lives of Israelis For decades, Gaza’s inadequate waste treatment system has been a burden both to Gaza residents and neighboring countries on the Mediterranean coast. With a rapidly growing population, years of neglect have caught up with […]
by Daniel Pipes May 1, 2016 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner As a conservative who believes in individual responsibility, limited government, free markets, caution in making social changes, and a robust foreign policy, all my adult life I have been a Republican and (with the single exception of an eccentric race for attorney […]
Judea-Samaria district police officers on Tuesday were stunned to find a 12-year-old Arab boy driving a car alone on Highway 60, in the region of Beit Haggai Junction heading in the direction of Kiryat Arba in Judea. The boy was detained for a check, and his father was also checked after it was discovered that he […]
By Yoram Ettinger Bethlehem’s Christian Arab leaders lobbied Israel against transferring the city to the Palestinian Authority. Thus, in 1993, on the eve of signing the Oslo Accord, the Christian mayor of Bethlehem, Elias Freij, urged Israel’s Prime Minister Rabin to annex Bethlehem into Greater Jerusalem – as it was under the Ottoman, British and […]
A senior Hungarian Cabinet minister warned that refugees entering Europe are anti-Semitic to defend his government’s tough stance on admitting them. Janos Lazar, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s powerful Cabinet chief, delivered the warning April 14 during a news conference in Budapest, the news site NOL reported. “Refugees entering Europe now are strongly anti-Semitic,” he said […]
The Israeli government held a unique session on Sunday, travelling by helicopter to the Golan Heights for a special meeting. While the venue of the cabinet meeting was unusual it was perfectly suited for the Prime Minister’s message, which declared that Israel will never surrender the Golan Heights. “I chose to hold this festive meeting […]
We have posted before about how Trump would be dangerous for Israel. Now, Trump makes another anti-Israel move by hiring Paul Manafort as one of his top aides. From The Daily Beast: One of Donald Trump’s top aides once lobbied Congress to kill an effort to move the United States embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. […]
Prof. Drorit Hochner, director of Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital’s OBGYN department, surprised leftist and Arab MKs who took part in a stormy Knesset session Wednesday morning regarding the separation of Jewish and Arab women in maternity wards. “There are Arab women who after birth ask not to be with Jewish women, they ask bluntly and […]
