Chaya Zissel had just returned with her parents from the Western Wall when the Arab driver killed her last month. The three-month old flew ten meters from her pram. Four-year-old Daniel Tragerman wasn't able to reach the shelter in his kibbutz during thjis past summer's war. These are just the last two Jewish babies
The Arab Spring hopes are a distant dream but ISIS is real. 2014 was a year in which we witnessed the continued deterioration of the modern Arab state, while in contrast, two older poitical frameworks rose in popularity. Syria is undergoing a long and bloody process of disintegration. Assad controls about a quarter
You are not paying attention or you think they mean someone else when daily they threaten to wipe all Jews off the map. But they mean it. Finally I have arrived at this conclusion, that a visionary is not someone who sees the future, but someone who has the power of clarity to see
Is it Israel that misses an opportunity to gain an opportunity? It is passing strange that Israel is pressed endlessly by friends and foes alike to negotiate a so-called peace agreement with the Palestinian Arabs, even though the self-proclaimed Palestinian Authority consists of two brutal terrorist organizations - Hamas and Fatah. After all,
Why are young people rushing to join IS? The fact that Islamic State (formerly Daesh or ISIS/ISIL) is highly popular in the Islamic world cannot be ignored. Not a day goes by without reading about large numbers of people from all parts of the globe – both Muslims, would-be Muslims and converts – arriving in
How did Jerusalem become so important to Muslims? The importance of Jerusalem for Jews and Christians is beyond dispute, since the connection of this city to Judaism and Christianity is part of universal concepts about history and theology. However, when it comes to modern politics, we hear over and over that Palestinians, Arabs and
The real reason Israel did not attack Iran is just part of it. PM Netanyahu has been a brave Israeli Prime Minister on the Iranian nuclear issue. Why? The entire present-day country of Iran is rung with huge difficult mountains. In specific, the Zagros Mountains line Iran’s western borders and tower over 4,000 meters
When I first heard about the decision by the Tel Aviv municipality to cancel school trips to Jerusalem, citing security concerns, I must admit my reaction was one of borderline derision. Indeed, those who are actually acquainted with the reality on the ground inside Jerusalem know that - while some areas are genuinely dangerous if
Not poverty-stricken, not misfits and not mentally ill. These are simply murderers. Not the dispossessed, not those, quoting Karl Marx, who would only lose their own chains. Professor Anthony Glees has compared them to the German terrorist organization Baader-Meinhof: “A movement of terrorists from the middle class, whose members were highly educated and
"The number of persecuted Christians in the world is 150 million." There are many other figures, terrifying and dramatic, in the pages of the "Black book of the plight of Christians in the world", a unique initiative of French scholars and coordinated by journalist Samuel Lieven. Snapshots of a global and amorphous war. In
