December 11, 2013 14:36 by Pesach Benson Audit finds EU pays Palestinian civil servants in Gaza who haven’t worked in six years. AP writes: Some 65,000 civil servants and members of the security forces in Gaza stopped reporting to their jobs in 2007, when the Islamic militant Hamas seized the territory from Palestinian President Mahmoud […]
If Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry succeeds in forcing a PA-agreed “peace” plan on Israel, cheered on by the Left, the result will eventually be tragic – for the PA. Once again, Israel’s Left tells us that Israel cannot survive if we refuse to surrender land. They say that Israel and ‘Palestine’ can live […]
The Temple Mount is a difficult issue because there is a total imbalance between the rights of Muslims and the rights of Jews. And even those who feel Jews should not ascend the mount for halakhic reasons are appalled by that injustice. For the Jewish People, the center of our individual and national being, the […]
Jewish groups in Canada, and foremost among them the Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), are trying to advance a parliamentary committee’s recommendation calling on the government to recognize the refugee status of Jewish refugees as part of its policy around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Roughly 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries around the time of […]
A military court in Gaza on Thursday sentenced a man to death by hanging, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported. The Hamas-run court found the man – identified only as A.K. – guilty of collaborating with Israeli authorities, without providing further details, said the news agency. On June 22, the Gaza government hanged two men […]
Roughly 100 Israelis from Shilo and surrounding communities in Samaria held a protest Saturday night calling to use force to stop rock and firebomb attacks. The protest was held along the highway, in the spot where the Har-Melekh family was attacked by terrorists in 2003. The attack killed young father Shuli Har-Melekh. Protesters explained that […]
November 26, 2013 15:56 by Alex Margolin Despite admissions from editors that the paper was wrong to illustrate a story about the murder of an IDF soldier with a photo of the murder’s mother, and countless complaints from readers that the admissions do not go far enough, New York Times is digging its heels in […]
Embassy Bomber ID’ed as Palestinian November 21, 2013 16:12 by Pesach Benson One of the suicide bombers from this week’s attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut is Palestinian, according to the Daily Star. Michael Totten and NOW Lebanon look at Hezbollah’s fears of more suicide attacks. And the Times of London piles on with a new irony you gotta […]
November 20, 2013 10:57 by Simon Plosker The New York Times has responded to our criticism of the paper’s appalling choice of photo accompanying its story on the murder of an Israeli soldier. Your emails to NY Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan certainly caught her attention. In her column she writes: Hundreds of readers wrote […]
November 19, 2013 16:33 by Pesach Benson Beirut was rocked by two suicide bombers outside the Iranian embassy. According to the Daily Star‘s early coverage, 25 people were killed, including an Iranian attache. Another 150 people were wounded. An Al-Qaida affiliate is claiming responsibility, but as usual, it’s Israel’s fault. Avi Issacharoff says Iran’s getting a taste of its […]
