Israel's predicament today is the work of two mythical generals turned prime ministers who got halfway into a program and died leaving behind a mess that no one knows how to clean up. Obituaries rarely have twist endings and the obituaries of famous people are as predictable as the rain. The obituaries for Ariel
Israel is the world's first modern indigenous state. Those who are arguing for Palestinian “indigenous rights” are usually those who have little grasp of the history, and no understanding of the truth behind indigenous rights. I am Métis from the Paddle Prairie Metis settlement in Northern Alberta Canada. I founded Canadians For Accountability, a
Egypt has reportedly been talking to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza in recent days, in an attempt to get them to stop attacking Israeli civilians with rockets. A senior Islamic Jihad source, quoted by Voice of Israel public radio, said Tuesday that his group, like Hamas, does not seek an escalation of the
An al-Qaida-inspired group in Egypt claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a rocket attack on southern Eilat port, saying it would continue to target the Jewish state while battling the interim military government in Cairo. Israel has occasionally come under cross-border strikes from the lawless Egyptian Sinai peninsula, though a new fortified fence along the
The problem with Chamberlain’s 1938 Munich appeasement of Hitler wasn’t merely that Chamberlain mistakenly “thought he had saved world peace.” It was that Chamberlain didn’t realize that, by giving Hitler the topographic-beachhead of the Czech-Sudetenland under the Munich diplomatic-umbrella, Chamberlain accelerated, rather than retarded, Hitler’s time-table for his military conquests. Chamberlain’s truly catastrophic mistake was
The United Nations’ cultural body has cancelled a Jewish exhibit following Arab pressure, the European Jewish Press (EJP) reported on Friday. The exhibition, entitled "People, Book, Land - The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel", was co-organized by UNESCO, the UN body for education, science and culture, and
Military sources stated Sunday that at least 20 Pakistani soldiers died and more than 30 were wounded after a bomb rocked an army convoy in the northwest region of Bannu. The explosion rocked the convoy in a town near North Waziristan, a lawless region on the Afghan border where terrorists often hide in the
Hamas's military wing faced a front of another kind last week: a cyber war. Several of the terror organization's twitter accounts have been suspended since January 9 without prior notice, according to various news outlets - and Hamas is not happy about it. The accounts: @AlqassamBrigade, @qassambrigades, @qassambrigade, and @qasambrigade - all twitter
The macabre joy, in the political sphere and in the media, over the destruction of Gush Katif recalled the horrible joy following Oslo that ended in national weeping after the suicide bombers began to appear. Now there is the same terrible atmosphere as there was then, an atmosphere which is preparing the ground for
Some are amazed and gladdened by the fact that the New York Times has finally—finally!!—published a piece about the Palestinian Authority incitement of Palestinian Arabs to hate Jews and to understand that they have been born to destroy to Israel, the Jewish state. But I am very hard to please. First, let us
