Monday, September 23, 2013

The West's Favorite "Key Issue" Fizzles Out

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The idea that solving the Israel/Palestinian question is the key to unlocking the problems of the region was what everyone who wanted to sou...

(Video) Showing Appreciation in a Big Way - Pina Chama, Soldiers Hospitality Hut

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Sharon Katz .. voices1youtubization .. 17 September '13.. H/T Paula Stern.. There's a cozy corner of Gush Etzion dedicated to...

The Absolutely Appropriate and Historical Zionist Response To Terror

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...It should be made clear that the next murder of Israeli "X" won’t lead to the resettlement of a Jewish owned building but the s...

Talk about “daylight” between the US and Israel!

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But everyone can see that the US will not use force, that the calculation has been made that US interests will better be served by allowing ...

One of the answers to tonight’s murder will be to keep the show going, both now and forever

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Eleven years ago, following Rabbi Shapira’s murder, we faced the same, identical question. And we didn’t cancel. The show went on. We hosted...
Sunday, September 22, 2013

Haaretz columnist - Calling himself a terrorist is "in the interest of the murder suspect"

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...Harel is advancing a theory, as we understand it, that Israel's evolving policy of wholesale commutation of terrorist prison sentence...

Thanks to absence of Palestinian sovereignty, Israel captures murderer within hours

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...If the terrorist's home in Beit Amin/Qalqilya was within a sovereign Palestinian state (in temporary borders or otherwise) Israeli se...
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In the wake of a murder, a call for the law to be changed

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...Convicted terrorists must serve the sentences determined by the competent courts of law that convict them. Allowing the power of wholesal...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

"Kill the Jews" had always expressed underlying sentiment. But it must never be said out loud

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...For all his hatred of Israel, another boycott icon, Norman Finkelstein manages to retain a semblance of integrity. “The BDS movement ….is...

Why releasing more terrorists to the Palestinians makes so little sense

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...Now remind us again why it makes sense to free convicted, unrepentant Palestinian Arab terrorists into the outstretched arms of those eve...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Hezbollah, lessons learned and the broken shards of glowing accomplishments

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...Resolution 1701 offers a sobering reflection of what will become of the deal to disarm Assad of his WMDs. The broken shards of the 1701 m...

Trading Iran for Palestine?

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...Supporters of Palestinian statehood hope and Israeli right-wingers fear that Netanyahu will soon make the deal with Obama that Caspit wri...

Why should the PLO be against expanding Gaza into the Sinai?

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...But the idea that anyone could be so cynical and callous towards their own people is incomprehensible to the West, no matter how much evi...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

The Precedents of Syria, Turkey and the Nightmare Scenario

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...The problem is that such an agreement only works if it’s strictly enforced, meaning any noncompliance produces massive punishment. Otherw...

Israel and maneuvering in a grey world

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Dr. Aaron Lerner .. IMRA Weekly Commentary.. 18 September '13.. It is hard to keep the scorecard straight. On the one hand, w...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Jerusalem 1936 - The Sukka and the Swastika

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Yehuda Avner.. JPost.. First published 07 October 09.. Succot, 1936. The newly appointed German consul-general to Jerusalem, Herr Walte...

Professor Adam Zertal - In the footsteps of ancient Israelite kings

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Every time I join Professor Adam Zertal, the archaeologist who has been researching the period of the Israelite settlement of Canaan during ...

Beginning to strike back at the money that enables the terrorists

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...While foreign governments were previously shielded from lawsuits, the Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act lifted that immunity from nati...

Egypt Cracks Down on Gaza. Where's the Coverage? Where's the Flotillas?

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When Israel tries to protect its citizens from thousands of rockets, missiles and terrorist attacks from Gaza, there’s a hue and cry, outrag...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Can the world can afford the creation of yet another dysfunctional undemocratic state?

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...It is time for the Palestinian-obsessed E.U. to shift gears, overcome its cognitive dissonance and take up a more worthy cause for a stat...