The Arab League on Sunday backed Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, Al-Arabiya reports. The head of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby, reportedly urged Arab countries to take a “firm stand” against Israel’s demand for the PA to recognize it as a Jewish state. Speaking at the […]
by Daniel Pipes Feb 3, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Some, especially in the mainstream media, pretend that not Jerusalem but Tel Aviv serves as the capital of Israel. (Tel Aviv hosts the Ministry of Defense but not much else of the central government.) The weblog entry documents some of those delusions, […]
Three Jews were arrested on the Temple Mount on Tuesday, in a harsh police operation that included strip searches. A fourth Jew was expelled from the holiest site in Judaism and forbidden entry, reports Hamate Hameshutaf (Joint Headquarters). The incident began as dozens of Jews who went to the Temple Mount Tuesday morning were ordered […]
The White House’s recent policies against Israel do not reflect the will of the American people, according to a recent poll. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) released the results of a nationwide survey this month revealing that the vast majority of Americans support Israel on nearly every major issue addressed in peace talks between […]
A top European Union official warned on Wednesday that both Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) would have a “price to pay” if US-led peace talks collapse, according to AFP. Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, the EU’s ambassador to Israel, also rebuffed the evidence noted by both Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Europe was […]
Member of Knesset Zevulun Kalfa (Jewish Home) had a narrow escape this week when terrorists threw a large concrete block at his car. The attackers struck late on Sunday night, as Kalfa was making his way from Jerusalem to the pre-military academy in Yatir, in the Hevron region. The attack took place near El Aroub […]
The Islamic Waqf, which supervises the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, has issued a pamphlet that makes new claims regarding the Mount – arguing, among other things, that King Solomon was a Muslim and that there is no Jewish connection to either the Temple Mount or the Western Wall (Kotel). Rabbi Chaim Richman of the […]
Documented evidence doesn’t stand in the way of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s claims regarding the attempted lynching of 25 Jewish residents of Samaria by an Arab mob from Kusra last Tuesday. In talks with Arab residents of eastern Jerusalem on Saturday, Abbas declared “the residents (of Kusra) caught settlers and besieged them, and they […]
Governmental sources report that US Secretary of State John Kerry is behind the European boycott threats on Israeli products and companies operating in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The EU published its guidelines last July, boycotting Israeli companies operating over the 1949 Armistice lines. John Kerry Flash 90 At the moment, Kerry […]
The Temple Mount is a difficult issue because there is a total imbalance between the rights of Muslims and the rights of Jews. And even those who feel Jews should not ascend the mount for halakhic reasons are appalled by that injustice. For the Jewish People, the center of our individual and national being, the […]
