IDF Thwarts Infiltration from Sinai
IDF soldiers have thwarted several attempts by terrorists to infiltrate southern Israel in recent weeks. Terrorists have tried to move from Gaza to Sinai to Israel via a desert passage known as “route H.” The head of the IDF tracking unit in the south, Colonel Yossi Hadad, spoke to the IDF website about the attempted […]
Arab-Owned Jerusalem Electric Company Discriminates Against Jew
The Arab-owned Jerusalem Electric Company, responsible for providing electricity to several Arab-populated neighborhoods in Jerusalem, refuses to service the property of Yitzchak Herskovitz. The energetic Yitzchak Herskovitz, 79, thought last year that his 17-year legal battle to reclaim his property from illegal Arab squatters had finally reached its happy ending. This was his reaction when […]
Climate of Double Standards from the Left
For years the left has made statements like “kill” Bush, “assassinate” Bush, they even made a film about assassinating Bush in Canada and it was nominated the years best film. Now that is a blatant outright suggestion of murder but it is very difficult to get at a President. 2 excerpts from Michele Malkin: In […]
Obama: France, Not Britain, America’s Strongest Ally
The Obama administration is not known for its pro-British track record, but this is by far the strongest indication yet that the current White House has little regard for the Special Relationship and its unique role in modern American history. During a White House photo-op with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, President Obama had this to […]
Libel is No Path to a Civil Society
All of us at The Heritage Foundation were profoundly saddened by the tragedy that occurred this past Saturday morning in Tucson, Arizona. We mourn all of those who lost their lives and are praying for a full recovery by all of the surviving victims. As Speaker John Boehner said Saturday, “An attack on one who […]
Sudan: Charting the Course Ahead
“You know, my people told me I should never meet with you,” Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir told Richard Williamson, former U.S. special envoy to Sudan, during the Bush Administration. Clearly, it’s no easy task conducting diplomatic relations with Khartoum’s government. Yet two days from the referendum that will likely split north and south, the international […]
Resisting Accommodation: The ACLU and Mount Soledad
A panel of the 9th Circuit of Appeals unanimously ruled this week that the Mount Soledad Cross, a memorial that now honors Korean War veterans and sits on federal land near San Diego, amounts to a violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The issue of memorial crosses and other religious markers on […]
Israel Air Force (IAF) Buries Gaza Murder Tunnel
Israel Air Force aircraft attacked a terror activity location in northern Gaza overnight (between Thursday and Friday) and bombed a terror tunnel coming out of southern Gaza. The tunnel was meant for inserting terrorists into Israel for murdering and abducting civilians and soldiers. It would have connected Gaza and Israel, and is not to be […]
Jewish US Lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords Shot, Prognosis Optimistic
Doctors say they are “optimistic” about her chances of recovery, but the prognosis for the first 24 hours is guarded following surgery to save the life of a firm friend of Israel, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The Jewish lawmaker was shot in the head by a 22-year-old gunman with a pistol at point-blank range Saturday […]
Arizona Shooting Today, Anti-Semitic Motive?
Tucson, AZ – Jared Lee Loughner, the man believed responsible for the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of at least five others Saturday, left his MySpace friends a “goodbye” before his page was apparently taken down. His YouTube page, in which he lists both The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf written […]
AZ Shooter Lists “The Communist Manifesto” as a Favorite Book
Jared Lee Loughner, identified today as the shooter responsible for the mass shooting this morning in Tucson which took the life of federal court judge John Roll and critically injured Democrat U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, lists The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf among his favorite books. The story of the shooting of the conservative Blue […]
