Soon after the State Department was not able to state the location of the capital of Israel, the Washington Post named the capital as Tel Aviv. The CAMERA media watchdog organization caught the error, and the Post issued a correction. The original article stated, “Obama’s more aggressive message this year reflects the increasing concern in Washington, […]
Security officials threatened on Friday that an escalation of rocket fire by terrorists in Gaza will result in a “super escalation” by the IDF. Speaking to the Yisrael Hayom newspaper, a security official said, “We cannot tolerate this fire over time. The citizens of Israel do not care who shoots at them. They care that […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online January 17, 2012 Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and acquiring Israeli citizenship. Then the Oslo Accords offered a little-noted family-reunification provision […]
In his weekly Torah lecture, broadcast on Arutz Sheva, venerable Torah sage Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, chief rabbi of Ramat Gan and member of Israel’s Rabbinic Council, discussed the connection between Passover and recent calls to create a Palestinian Authority state east of the 1948 armistice line and to uproot the hundreds of thousands of Israelis […]
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has gotten himself into hot water with the Arab world, and with the Palestinian Authority over an interview he gave to The Jewish Channel. Gingrich last week told the Jewish cable television station that the claim of Palestinian Authority Arabs to be “a people” is not legitimate, and that diplomatic […]
Haven’t we been here before? Palestinian terrorists launch or attempt to launch rockets from Gaza on to Israeli towns and cities and Israel responds. So who is ultimately responsible? And which side is engaged in aggressive acts and which is carrying out defensive measures? You’d think it was obvious. But not to some of the […]
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed Shalit back home from captivity Tuesday and vowed, “We will continue to fight terror. Every terrorist who returns to terror will have a price on his head.” He added, “Gilad has returned home and is back with his family, his people and his country,” the Prime Minister stated. After meeting […]
Large scale protests / pop concerts dominated by secular Israelis are being held in Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem and will include free performances by well known artists. The protesters demand “social justice” and a more equitable economy but their exact demands are not clear. According to an investigative report by Maariv‘s Kalman Libeskind, the […]
By PETER PATON The widespread demonstrations by the Tent City protesters in Tel Aviv over apparently over housing shortages, and the fiery rhetoric by militant Left Wing unions and the lightning strike action by doctors, are thought by some Israeli intelligence sources to be orchestrated by the Obama administration, so as to overthrow the Netanyahu […]
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a 100-percent accurate personal sensor that detects the presence of the most common date rape drugs in beverages. The next stage is to miniaturize the system for mass production and to produce a device no larger than the head of a pin, which would make it possible for […]
