Supporting America’s armed forces in times of war and peace is a fundamental obligation of government as part of its responsibility to provide for the common defense and protect the nation. A decade of combat operations and two decades of underinvestment have left the U.S. military too small and inadequately equipped to meet all of […]
“The ‘Trophy-Windbreaker’ System will enhance the performance of our forces on the battlefield,” Yom Kippur War hero Brigadier General (res.) Avigdor Kahalani opined following the first successful use of the anti-missile system. The system was first used in combat Tuesday when it intercepted an anti-tank missile fired at an IDF Merkava IV tank on routine patrol […]
The fairy tale stopped in Tripoli. At first it appeared that Libya’s Moammar Qaddafi would succumb in short order as did the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt. His support appeared to be unraveling as diplomats and high-ranking officers and even Cabinet members scurried to disassociate themselves from the regime that they had long served. It […]
Washington (CNSNews.com) – Pentagon documents made public on Wednesday by a government watchdog group show the Bush administration’s concerns that prisoners released from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility would put American lives at risk. The documents, all from the Bush era, come at a time when Obama administration officials have given mixed messages about closing […]
The United States is moving warships, planes and troops close to Libya and two assault ships passed through the Suez Canal Wednesday morning. The USS Ponce and the USS Kearge, carrying approximately 400 marines passed through the waterway on the way to eastern Libya, where rebels are in control as Muammar Qaddafi continues to rule […]
The IDF announces that it is seeking the help of the public in finding – not a missing person, but a name for its newest plane. The IDF has recently purchased 20 F-35 fifth-generation stealth fighter jets from United States manufacturer Lockheed-Martin. Though delivery to Israel of the world’s most advanced attack aircraft is expected […]
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 […]
Two Libyan air force colonels piloting two Mirage F1 fighter jets arrived in Malta Sunday, asking for political asylum after being order to bomb protesters amid the chaos of a budding civil war, according to Associated Press. Airport immigration officials questioned the two pilots as well as seven others – civilians claiming they were French […]
Egyptian Islamic theologian Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who heads the International Union of Islamic Scholars and the European Council for Fatwa and Research, issued a religious edict Monday in which he called for Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar Qaddafi, to be killed. “Whoever in the Libyan army is able to shoot a bullet at Mr Gaddafi should […]
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 […]
