July 31, 2013 15:01 by Pesach Benson Fadi Arouri is one of Ramallah’s biggest opponents of normalizing Israeli-Palestinian ties. He’s also a photographer who isn’t interested in separating his professional journalism and political activism. And that raises questions about his association with the Reuters wire service and China’s Xinhua News Agency. HonestReporting has learned Reuters […]
by Daniel Pipes September 23, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner In retaliation for the shooting on Sep. 22 of an Israeli soldier, Sgt. Gabriel Koby, 20, while patrolling in Hebron, killed by a sniper with a shot to the neck, the Government of Israel has allowed the immediate resettlement of Beit Hamachpela […]
by Daniel Pipes September 13, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Strangely, twenty years on, I find nothing new to say about the Oslo accords signed on Sep. 13, 1993. I reread what I wrote on the 10th anniversary and realize that no major changes have occurred. The players remain in their customary […]
September 16, 2013 10:39 by Simon Plosker Sunday’s New York Times gave the front page of its Sunday Review to Professor Ian Lustick to make a case against a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From his ivory tower, Lustick displays an incredible disconnect to the reality of Israel and its people. Going way beyond […]
September 15, 2013 13:57 by Simon Plosker While Jews around the world were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, trust The Guardian to publish an opinion piece advocating against freedom of religion at Judaism’s holiest site. Dr Giles Fraser of St Mary’s Newington church in south London explains in “An Israeli claim […]
September 16, 2013 13:25 by Pesach Benson How enforceable is Russia’s plan to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons? Col. Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, told the Jerusalem Post that Moscow’s plan isn’t realistic because A) no country will volunteer to send inspectors into the midst of a brutal civil […]
Fatah’s military wing, the Al Aqsa Brigades, on Sunday took responsibility for the murder of IDF soldier Tomer Hazan Friday. According to Israeli officials, Nadal Amar, the terrorist who killed Hazan, was not affiliated with any terror group. Hazan was abducted Friday and murdered in Samaria by Amar, with the motive said by IDF officials […]
A website devoted to the archaeological dig at the Ophel site in Jerualem, which is sponsored by the Herbert W. Armstrong College, features a 17-minute video that describes in some detail the drama of the discovery of a golden 7th century treasure there. Caridad French, an excavator at the site, describes finding a quarter-sized coin that […]
September 11, 2013 13:30 by Simon Plosker It’s easy to produce an anti-Israel libel that is subsequently debunked after the damage has been done. This was graphically demonstrated in the past few days. Anti-poverty organization Oxfam’s Campaigns and Policy Director Ben Phillips tweeted the following: There exists a symbiotic relationship between non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the […]
The world could learn a lesson from the way Israel fights terrorism, said Cressida Dick, the Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations at the London Police. She spoke on Monday at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism’s (ICT) World Summit on Counter-Terrorism, taking place at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center (IDC). “We are seeing some of our [terrorism […]
