The Air Force conducted a rehearsal last week for an event in which an enemy Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) infiltrates Israeli airspace. Both jet fighter and combat helicopter squadrons took part in the rehearsal, and practiced interception of a UAV near Israel’s border, reported the Air Force website. The IAF sees the threat as a […]
April 23, 2014 13:31 by Simon Plosker An article in The Economist, ”The final fizzling of negotiations,” contained the following sentence in reference to the murder of Baruch Mizrahi, fired on by a Palestinian terrorist on his way to a Passover Seder: The next day a Palestinian gunman fired on cars on a nearby road restricted […]
Middle East expert Professor Alex Bley of Ariel University sat down with Arutz Sheva Friday to analyze the reconciliation deal made between Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction and Hamas. According to Bley, there is no great cause for surprise over the deal – and it should not have lead to a suspension of the peace talks, which […]
As hype and hysteria over the Hamas-Fatah (PLO/PA) unity pact continues, many experts are concerned over Israel’s future. But at least one expert has said that the unity pact will work in Israel’s favor: Arutz Sheva columnist Dr. Mordechai Keidar, an expert on the Israeli-Arab sector, and an Arabic literature professor at Bar-Ilan University. “I think […]
Yoram Ettinger, the former Israeli consul in Washington, DC, is unfazed by Mahmoud Abbas’s threats to dismantle the Palestinian Authority (PA) if negotiations with Israel are discontinued. Ambassador Ettinger told Arutz Sheva that Abbas is well aware of Israel’s fear of taking control of Judea and Samaria. “He knows that the Israeli leadership gets weak-kneed […]
Many Israelis have long maintained that conditions for Arab terrorists in jail are far too comfortable and do not provide enough of a deterrent, citing numerous incidents of Palestinian Arabs who have carried out attacks purely in order to receive the perks that Israeli jails afford them, including free higher education. A recent interview with […]
EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton called on Israel to reverse recent announcements regarding construction in Judea and Samaria in order to advance peace talks. Ashton said she viewed with “great concern” an Israeli decision to declare an area near the Gush Etzion Bloc south of Jerusalem as state land and the recognition of Jewish […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas hinted at plans to dismantle the Palestinian Authority (PA) over the weekend, according to a report in Yediot Aharonot, and thus enact a serious blow to Israel through international legislation. According to the daily, dismantling the PA would transfer all responsibility for the Palestinian Arabs to Israel, dissolving the Oslo […]
by Daniel Pipes Apr 14, 2014 updated Apr 18, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Max Blumenthal, like others on the far-Left, jumped on the July 2011 Norwegian massacre of 77 dead and 319 injured to impugn the counter-jihadi right. His screed, “Anders Behring Breivik, a perfect product of the Axis of Islamophobia” […]
April 13, 2014 15:48 by Simon Plosker Disowned by his university and branded a traitor by his fellow Palestinians. This after a professor took 27 college students on a trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp as part of a project to teach empathy and tolerance. The Washington Post takes up the story: [Professor] Dajani said […]
