Well-known Israeli investigative reporter for the Maariv Hebrew daily, Kalman Liebskind, had a Kafkaesque story to report this week, and the subject of the article was himself. “Driving down the road that leads to our home in Gimzu, I heard the first bang”, he wrote in Hebrew in his weekly column. “ My wife, Ilana, who was driving […]
Uruguay has joined the parade of Latin American nations choosing to officially recognize the Palestinian Authority as an independent nation. Foreign Minister Luis Almagro said in a statement that Uruguay communicated its intent to the Palestinian Authority. However, there was no indication as to whether Uruguay would recognize specific borders for the entity, the Associated […]
LA Times: Settlements Provoke Baby Killing The inhuman act of slitting the throats of a three-month old baby, two small children and their parents defies any understanding or justification for any political cause. But not for the LA Times, which contends that the brutal murder of the Fogel family are part of an ongoing “cycle […]
The IDF is still searching for the perpetrators of last Friday’s terror murders in Itamar, and the Palestinian Authority, which has condemned the murders of the five members of the Fogel family as “inhuman,” says that it is cooperating fully with Israel in tracking down the murderers. But while the PA condemns the most recent […]
JCC Watch is focusing attention on the partnership between the Jewish Community Center of New York City’s Upper West Side and groups the support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The JCC of the Upper West Side, notes the watchdog group, is a beneficiary agency of the UJA-Federation. BDS was launched in 2005 […]
The Netanyahu government’s decision to build 500 new homes in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) as a response to Arab terror does not move the United States, which still insists that “settlements are illegitimate.” Despite the American criticism of Israel’s renewed Yesha building , restricted to major population centers, National Union party chairman MK Yaakov Katz […]
Hamas forces stormed into banks in Gaza twice this week and demanded money at gunpoint, making off with a total of $350,000. Leaders of the terrorist group declared that they were “protecting the Palestinian people’s money,” not stealing. Banks in Gaza shut down in protest, and will reopen on Sunday. The Hamas-affiliated National Islamic Bank […]
The Fatah movement, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, held a meeting in Ramallah in honor of a senior planner of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympics at their Revolutionary Council conference. Abbas, who worked behind the scenes to fund the murder of 11 Israelis at Munich, earlier this year told […]
Due to the ongoing violence in Libya, 300 “Palestinian refugees” from the north African country will be allowed to seek refuge “temporarily” in Judea and Samaria. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who approved the move, said the 300 would be allowed in as a humanitarian gesture. As far as is known, this will be the first […]
The Palestinian Authority, with financial assistance by the European Union, has begun to house Arabs in the heart Jewish community in Hevron near the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew website has learned. A security source revealed on Sunday that in the last year and a half, the Palestinian Authority, through a body named […]
