Most Clicked This Week
- “As Passover approaches, Dan Senor speaks with Rachel Goldberg-Polin about how this year’s Seder lands differently”
- United Nations anti-Israel campaign "emboldens the radicals among the Palestinians, including the Iranian-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose declared goal is to eliminate Israel and replace it with an Islamist state"
- "A festering dispute broke out into the open as Trump took aim at Tucker Carlson"
- The giant stone circles in the Middle East no one can explain
- "Extreme threats, surprise direct talks and a barrage of clichés about Israel being thrown under the bus and an unstable leader: everything Israel went through with Hamas in Gaza is now repeating itself with Iran"
- From an IDF Vet to his American friends: Wake up to what is happening on your college campuses
- Dore Gold resigns: "The role of director-general of the foreign ministry was a professional and personal peak in all the years that I served on the diplomatic front"
- “The Palestinian Authority has been disappointed that only several thousand Palestinians rioted in the wake of Trump's Jerusalem proclamation”
Tag Archives: Gaza
Rebuilding Gaza starts very slowly
ISRAEL HAYOM by Elliott Abrams October 13, 2014 The Hamas claim of victory in last summer’s conflict with Israel was based largely on the associated claim that life in Gaza would now change to the great benefit of the people … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Elliott Abrams, Gaza, Hamas, Israel Hayom, Reconstruction
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Hamas Ransoms Bodies of IDF Soldiers
TIMES OF ISRAEL by Staff October 10, 2014 Official says Gaza group will demand ‘a price’ for information on whereabouts of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul’s remains A high-ranking Hamas official stated that Israel and the Islamist group were poised … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Gaza, Hadar Goldin, Israel Radio, Mohammed Nazzal', Oron Shaul
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International banking giant refuses to cut off Israel, despite boycott calls
HAARETZ by Barak Ravid October 6, 2014 SWIFT rejects pressures to disconnect Israeli banks from its networks The SWIFT international banking network on Monday published a special announcement in which it rejected calls by pro-Palestinian organizations to disconnect Israeli banks … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Gaza, Operation Protective Edge, SWIFT
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Mahmoud Abbas’s dangerous grandstanding
WASHINGTON POST by Editorial Board September 29, 2014 THE GOOD news from the Middle East is that the truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has held for a month, and Hamas appears ready to make concessions to … Continue reading
Rabbi at NY Gay Synagogue offers special prayer, fireworks ensue
NEW YORK TIMES by Laurie Goodstein September 22, 2014 With the war in Gaza still raging, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum offered an unusual prayer for peace last month during a Friday night service at the large predominantly gay synagogue she leads … Continue reading
Approaching Rosh Hashanah, #Thoughts4Elul 5774
Shana Tova to all my friends. All the best for 5775….Richard RABBI SACKS BLOG September 4, 2014 Averting the Decree, #Thoughts4Elul 5774 This year we approach the New Year with more fear and trembling than for a very long time. This … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Gaza, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Rosh Hashanah
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Does Human Rights Watch Understand the Nature of Prejudice?
THE ATLANTIC by Jeffrey Goldberg September 21, 2014 A few days ago, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, tweeted the following statement: “Germans rally against anti-Semitism that flared in Europe in response to Israel’s conduct in Gaza war. Merkel … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged anti-Semitism, Gaza, Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth
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Evidence that Hamas used residential areas; Dershowitz rebuttal to ‘density’ claim
WASHINGTON POST by Associated Press September 12, 2014 GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Two weeks after the end of the Gaza war, there is growing evidence that Hamas militants used residential areas as cover for launching rockets at Israel, at … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Beit Hanoun, density, Gaza, Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Khan Younis, residential, rockets
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Hamas: Give Us West Bank So We Can Destroy Israel
GATESTONE INSTITUTE by Khaled Abu Toameh September 7, 2014 If the West Bank had one quarter of the weapons that the Gaza Strip has, Israel would be eliminated in one day. This is what Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar told worshippers … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Abdullah Azzam, Gaza, Hamas, Mahmoud Zahar, West Bank
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