At a press conference with foreign journalists Thursday, Director General of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs Yossi Kuperwasser said that he believed that only foreign pressure on Hamas would put an end to the current round of rocket attacks by Gaza Arab terrorists against Israel. A major IDF campaign against Gaza would do little, if […]
by Khaled Abu Toameh Muslims often claim that Palestine is a modern day concentration camp, going as far as the insane as to comparing it to Auschwitz. The exact opposite is true. If the Egyptian army succeeds in demolishing the underground smuggling tunnels that keep Hamas running, it could mark the end of the Islamists’ […]
The European Union has decided that the city of Modiin-Maccabim-Reut (Modiin) is not a part of Israel. The city was built on what was no-man’s land after the 1948 War of Independence, and therefore will not be considered Israel proper, EU officials said. The decision was made as part of an EU initiative to decide […]
It was the late Yitzchak Shamir who declared from the Knesset podium that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people, “and why? Because!” Thursday afternoon, the second annual conference calling for the application of Israeli law on Judea and Samaria (Yehuda and Shomron) began at the Visitors Center in Hebron. The conference is […]
A reserves soldier reported Saturday night that an Arab gang in Samaria (Shomron) had attacked him, apparently in an attempt to steal his weapon. The incident occurred at the Shavei Shomron junction. An initial investigation has led security forces to believe that the gang mistook the soldier, who has long hair, for a woman. Carjacking […]
BBC Olympic Coverage Declares East Jerusalem as Palestinian Capital July 19, 2012 13:34 by Simon Plosker The BBC Sport website’s coverage of the forthcoming London Olympic games features country profiles of all of the competing nations. Every other country profile includes a listed capital city. All except for Israel. This even includes “Palestine” where the BBC […]
Arafat had been telling his people that anyone who makes concessions to Israel is a traitor. Like Arafat, Abbas does not want to go down in history as the first Palestinian leader to make concessions, especially on sensitive issues such as refugees and Jerusalem. What are the chances that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would […]
Several hundreds of people staged a protest march in Pretoria, South Africa, against South Africa’s plans to label products made in Judea and Samaria as “Made in the Palestinian Territories.” Around 300 members of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and the Inkatha Freedom party marched peacefully and handed over a petition against the labeling […]
Yasser Arafat was poisoned in 2004 with polonium 210, a dangerous radioactive substance, a Swiss laboratory concluded and Al Jazeera reported this week. Arafat’s widow Suha, literally went through his clothes and underwear to find loose change to prove her husband was poisoned. Now she has called on the Palestinian Authority to exhume her husband’s […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday denied a Palestinian Authority request for a $100 million bridging loan via Israel. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad approached Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer in search of Israeli assistance with obtaining the loan earlier this year. Israeli assistance in seeking the loan – approved by Prime […]
