September 15, 2013 13:57 by Simon Plosker While Jews around the world were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, trust The Guardian to publish an opinion piece advocating against freedom of religion at Judaism’s holiest site. Dr Giles Fraser of St Mary’s Newington church in south London explains in “An Israeli claim […]
September 16, 2013 13:25 by Pesach Benson How enforceable is Russia’s plan to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons? Col. Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, told the Jerusalem Post that Moscow’s plan isn’t realistic because A) no country will volunteer to send inspectors into the midst of a brutal civil […]
Fatah’s military wing, the Al Aqsa Brigades, on Sunday took responsibility for the murder of IDF soldier Tomer Hazan Friday. According to Israeli officials, Nadal Amar, the terrorist who killed Hazan, was not affiliated with any terror group. Hazan was abducted Friday and murdered in Samaria by Amar, with the motive said by IDF officials […]
September 11, 2013 15:56 by Pesach Benson President Obama took his case for Syrian intervention to the public in a national address (video/transcript). See also the Wall St. Journal, which rounded up the highlights of the president’s six network interviews. Fallout from the Russian initiative: According to Israeli media reports, when Moscow told Bashar Assad […]
A website devoted to the archaeological dig at the Ophel site in Jerualem, which is sponsored by the Herbert W. Armstrong College, features a 17-minute video that describes in some detail the drama of the discovery of a golden 7th century treasure there. Caridad French, an excavator at the site, describes finding a quarter-sized coin that […]
September 11, 2013 13:30 by Simon Plosker It’s easy to produce an anti-Israel libel that is subsequently debunked after the damage has been done. This was graphically demonstrated in the past few days. Anti-poverty organization Oxfam’s Campaigns and Policy Director Ben Phillips tweeted the following: There exists a symbiotic relationship between non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the […]
by Daniel Pipes August 28, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Warfare is a very serious business whose first imperative is to deploy force to win – rather than to punish, make a statement, establish a symbolic point, or preen about one’s morality. Yet, these latter are precisely what several Western states will […]
by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times September 9, 2013 Here’s advice to the members of the United States Congress as they are asked to endorse an American-led attack on the government of Syria: Start your consideration by establishing priorities, clarifying what matters most to the country. The Obama administration rightly points to two urgent matters: […]
The world could learn a lesson from the way Israel fights terrorism, said Cressida Dick, the Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations at the London Police. She spoke on Monday at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism’s (ICT) World Summit on Counter-Terrorism, taking place at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center (IDC). “We are seeing some of our [terrorism […]
September 3, 2013 13:43 by Pesach Benson It’s bad enough a BDS rally at South Africa’s Witwatersrand University featured protesters chanting, “Shoot the Jew.” But Mohammed Desai, the head of South Africa’s BDS movement, poured more fuel to the fire when he told the student paper, the Wits Vuvuzela: The coordinator of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions […]
