The 20-year-old Border Police officer who shot an Arab attacker in Hevron this week is facing death threats. Arab-language websites have published her picture, and social media users are calling for retaliation. Hebrew media outlets have blurred the soldier’s image. The female officer fired on a young Arab man who was pointing a gun at […]
Syria has accused the United States of seeking to frame the country for using chemical weapons, Syrian state-run media reported. “The U.S. administration has consistently worked over the past year to launch a campaign of allegations on the possibility that Syria could use chemical weapons during the current crisis,” the Foreign Ministry wrote in letters […]
The regime of President Bashar al-Assad says Syrian rebels have gained control of a toxic chlorine factory east of Aleppo. The statement, quoted Sunday by Radio Free Europe’s Radio Liberty, came less than a week after the Syrian foreign ministry claimed that Assad’s troops would never use chemical weapons against his own people. However, the […]
On the heels of the very successful performance of Iron Dome during Operation Pillar of Defense, the IDF on Sunday tested yet another missile defense system, “Magic Wand,” also known as David’s Sling, designed to shoot down long range missiles fired at Israel. Whereas the Iron Dome system is designed to intercept short-range rockets that […]
Noam Bedein is a photojournalist, lecturer and founder/director of Sderot Media Center. He lives approximately two miles away from the Gaza-Israel border in the missile-battered Israeli city of Sderot. From the last day of Operation Cast Lead (January 18, 2009) until the 1st day of Operation Pillar of Defense, the Gaza Hamas regime launched 2,000 aerial […]
HR Comment: Media War Review November 22, 2012 15:23 by Simon Plosker With a ceasefire in effect, Operation Pillar of Defense appears to be over. Of course there will be plenty of media coverage in the coming days and weeks as the “fog of war” clears. In any event, Israel is rarely out of the […]
by Daniel Pipes November 15, 2012 updated Nov 16, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Two observations about the hostilities that began on Nov. 10: (1) The old Arab-Israeli wars were military clashes, the recent ones are political clashes. The wars of 1948-49, 1967, and 1973 were life-and-death struggles for the Jewish state. […]
The Israeli government has approved the call-up of 75,000 reservists to participate in the Gaza fighting, as infantry, armor and engineering units mass near Gaza awaiting the command to enter the Hamas-controlled terror state. No one outside the IDF’s leadership knows if the IDF intends to invade Gaza, when the IDF incursion will start, and […]
Operation Pillar of Defense: What You Need to Know November 15, 2012 14:05 by Simon Plosker Israel is not interested in stoking the flames, but for the past five days there has been constant missile fire at Israel and mothers and children cannot sleep quietly at night … There is a limit to what Israel can […]
Did the White House use their knowledge of former CIA director David Petraeus’ affair to get favorable testimony from him regarding the deadly terror attack on our Libyan consulate? According to syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, Petraeus told the House Intelligence Committee on September 14, three days after the attack, that it was “a spontaneous protest […]
