Hamas is moving its headquarters from Damascus to Egypt, and the terror group is strengthening itself in the Sinai, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee Monday. He also noted that the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Hamas sprung, also has become a more powerful force in Egypt since the ouster […]
Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom told the Knesset on Wednesday recognition of a PA state would put Iran on Israel’s front door. During a special session of the knesset on the recent Fatah-Hamas unity agreement Shalom said the integration of Hamas into the PA would render any future PA state an Iranian proxy. “We are […]
United States President Barack Obama has created his own diplomatic plan for talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority to rival that of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, according to the New York Times. Obama’s plan is reportedly based on principles including: the creation of a PA state in Judea and Samaria, with borders based on […]
MK Danny Danon (Likud) returned on Thursday from a visit to the United States, where he oversaw the drafting of a lawsuit against Justice Richard Goldstone, author of the Goldstone Report. “I just returned from the U.S.,” Danon said during an interview on Thursday with Arutz Sheva’s Hebrew website. “I sat together with Jewish lawyers […]
Arab Knesset Member Mohammed Barakeh has justified the public burning on Tuesday of a photo of Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, saying it was a “legitimate” protest and not an act of incitement. Hate chants also were heard at the annual Land Day demonstration in the mixed Arab-Jewish city of Lod, located near Ben Gurion International […]
An upcoming conference in Washington by the leftist controversial American group J Street will not only feature anti-Israel speakers who for boycotts of the state, but will also feature Israeli MKs. J Street defines itself as “pro-America, pro-Israel, pro-peace,” and was formed as a left-wing lobbyist group to counter traditionally pro-Israel groups. It has repeatedly […]
The Golan Heights, demanded by Syria, is enjoying an unprecedented building boom, and virtually no apartments are available for rent or sale, according to a regional official. “The wave of building is at a record high, Sammy Bar-Lev, chairman of the regional council in Katzrin, the region’s largest city, told Arutz 7. “There are 8,000 […]
A Knesset ministerial committee is discussing on Sunday a new bill to give Jews in Judea and Samaria the same rights that other citizens enjoy. It would in effect remove the authority of Defense Minister Ehud Barak to impose a de facto building freeze on construction for Jews. The proposed legislation is sponsored by National […]
On Tuesday, as the Knesset debated a law against boycotts on Israel, a group of radical left Israeli academics turned to the government of Poland (the incoming president of the European Union) and demanded action against what they termed the “crimes of the occupation” perpetrated by Israel. The group is headed by Professor Rachel Giora […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Wednesday in an address to the Knesset that a regime change in Egypt could be the harbinger for a new gateway to Iran. In the wake of an announcement by President Hosni Mubarak that after a 30-year reign, he will step down at the end of his term, Netanyahu noted […]
