Most Clicked This Week
- Ted Cruz: "I would not make fighting same-sex marriage a top priority"
- I rarely post Al Jazeera, but this is worth a read: “Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded”
- "Visitors will be able to “touch history” by walking in the footsteps of ancient pilgrims through a 380-yard stretch of tunnel along the ancient street that ran uphill to the Jewish temple"
- “Israeli officials fear that the scenario in which Iran's regime remains in power even after the current military campaign is now more realistic”
- Has Biden ever called on Palestinians to compensate Israeli victims?
- Israel's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Daniel Meron, called the report "scandalous" and "fake," saying it had been authored by "Hamas proxies"
- Eric Cantor's loss was not about religion
- “The future of Israeli diplomacy will be shaped not only by alliances or declarations, but by technologies so essential that they bind nations together in ways traditional diplomacy cannot”
Tag Archives: Syria
Lappin: “Obsession with “fixing the Israeli-Palestinian problem” is deeply symptomatic of a cultural meltdown that has rendered Europe in its ideological nakedness incapable of cultural repair”
OBSERVER Bogus Paris Peace Conference Seeks to Mansplain Israel-Palestine ‘Solution’ by Andrew Lappin June 7, 2016 The Paris “peace” conference has commenced. Its purpose is to come up with a template of territorial concessions that Israel will be expected to … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish, Politics
Tagged Palestinians, Peace Talks, Refugees, Syria, United Nations
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Hypocritical nations, Heal thyself
JEWISH PRESS Hypocrisy On The Golan Heights by Dr Rafael Medoff May 22, 2016 Fifteen countries illegally occupying other countries’ territories have denounced Israel for refusing to surrender the Golan Heights. It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Golan Heights, Syria, United Nations, United Nations Security Council
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US to Israel: Golan Heights annexation a violation of international law
HAARETZ U.S. Responds to Netanyahu: Golan Heights Are Not Part of Israel by Barak Ravid April 18, 2016 U.S. State Department spokesperson John Kirby stressed Monday night that the Obama administration does not consider the Golan Heights to be part … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Golan Heights, John Kirby, Syria, US State Department
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“The persecution of Jews in Arab lands had not ceased since the rise of Muhammad who, in 626 C.E., enslaved, expelled or beheaded the three leading Jewish tribes of the Arabian Peninsula”
ISRAEL HAYOM Forgotten Jewish refugees by Yoram Ettinger April 8, 2016 …The CIA assessed that “a second Jewish Holocaust in less than 10 years” would be the response to the establishment of a Jewish state. In fact, 820,000 Jews were expelled … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Algeria, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, North Yemen, Refugees, South Yemen, Syria, Tunisia, Yoram Ettinger
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“Since Putin actively entered the Syrian civil war on behalf of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, Israel and Russia have held four rounds of talks and maintain near daily contact to prevent unintended clashes”
DEFENSE NEWS Israel-Russia Brass Continue to Coordinate Over Crowded Skies in Syria by Barbara Opall-Rome March 31, 2016 Despite Moscow’s declared mid-March drawdown of forces in Syria, Israeli experts say Russian military presence there remains considerable — and potentially more … Continue reading
Reminder: If Syrian nuclear program were still active, “it would be under Islamic State’s control today”
JERUSALEM POST INSS head says IAF capable of destroying Iranian nuclear program by Daniel J. Roth March 26, 2016 Head of the Institute for National Security Studies [INSS] said Saturday that Israel Defense Forces were capable of destroying Iran’s nuclear … Continue reading
HIAS, formerly known as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, found that the word “Hebrew” no longer worked so recently dropped it from organizations’ name
JNS Not your bubbe’s Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society—not even ‘Hebrew’ anymore by Abraham H. Miller March 9, 2016 …HIAS’s webpage and its refugee advocacy have nothing to do with Jewish refugees or the plight of Jews suffering anti-Semitism. HIAS has … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Europe, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, HIAS, Refugees, Syria
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Syrians treated by Israel: “Whoever they are, they are always grateful and usually surprised to discover what we Israelis are really like”
ALGEMEINER Wounded Syrians Treated in Israel ‘Overwhelmed With Gratitude,’ Says IDF Medical Corps Deputy Surgeon General by Ruthie Blum March 8, 2016 “At first, they were afraid to be treated by Israelis, whom they were taught their whole lives are … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Jewish
Tagged Bashar al-Assad, Dr Tarif Bader, IDF, Syria, Syrian civil war
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Due to Syria, Arab trade now being re-routed through Israel
COMMENTARY The Peace Process that Matters by Evelyn Gordon March 2, 2016 I just returned from a few weeks in America, where the only thing from Israel that makes the news is the ongoing Palestinian violence. So it was a … Continue reading