Thursday, April 23, 2015

On Israel’s first day (15 May '48) by Sarah Honig

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Because its ragtag army stood its ground, despite the worst of odds, Israel is today accused of the crime of surviving and is portrayed as a...

The miracle that is the modern state of Israel

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Michael Freund .. Pundicity/Jewish Press.. First Published 17 April '13.. The state of Israel this week turned 67 (65), defying hi...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

When, exactly, does it matter? Who decides? Apparently not Israel.

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...Amb. Power's comments appear to be a full and faithful rendering of the policies of her boss at the State Department and his boss in ...

From the ashes of the Etzion bloc a state arose

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...Moshe ("Mush") Zilberschmidt, the commander of the Etzion bloc who was killed in a battle for the Russian Monastery, coined the...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

An Israel That Stood Alone

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....That was an Israel that was prepared to take strategic gambles because it knew it couldn’t afford to wait on events. It did not consider...

Lying on a huge scale, with the problem being, people believe them.

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...doesn’t quite add up to tens of thousands of arrests a year. Addameer is lying, and lying on a huge scale. It is simply making up these n...

Great Question, Yes? Can You Capture Your Home?

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...But in 1948, that connection was disrupted. The city fell during Israel’s War of Independence to the Jordanian Legion. All the Jewish hom...
Monday, April 20, 2015

They followed their hearts, feeling that it was up to their dreams to shape reality

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...The reality at the time was harsh, almost unbearable: disease, swamps, scarce livelihood and dwindling security. But the hands of the few...

Another Guardian essay falsely charging Israel with ethnically cleansing Jerusalem Palestinians

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...Finally, the charge that Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed from east Jerusalem is easily contradicted by population statistics. ...

Dear Headline Writers: The Target is Real People — Not Bus Stops

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...No matter how quickly news breaks, there is no excuse for editors to publish misleading headlines that soften the reality of cold-blooded...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

(Video) Caroline Glick on the Holocaust: Competing Visions of 'Never Again'

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CarolineGlick.com .. 17 April '15.. ( Caroline Glick Update )  I gave the speech below four years ago before Young Israel in Hillcr...
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The spurious sincerity of pro-Palestinian commentators

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...Politicians, professors and journalists alike carry on mindlessly suggesting untenable immoral prescriptions that ostensibly help the Pal...

Without the bold red line, a very tough call.

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...Should the outline of the framework agreement mature into a final deal, Israel will be faced with only a handful of options: making do wi...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

New York Times Covers Palestinian Harassment of Jews, Blames Jews for Tensions

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...the story leaves room for hope that The New York Times might move away from habit of subjecting Israel to severe scrutiny while shielding...
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Friday, April 17, 2015

The Plan - A Hamas State of Palestine in Gaza (For Now)

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...If and when Hamas carries out its plan and establishes its own sovereign state in the Gaza Strip, the international community, primarily ...

The cost to American political life of legitimizing exterminationist anti-Semitism

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...Roosevelt never lifted a finger to save European Jews, but he did defeat the Nazis. Obama writes letters to the man who threatens to exte...

Spreading His Anti-Israel Poison Abroad. Any Guesses?

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Haaretz journalist Gideon Levy is a fringe radical who justifies terrorism, dismisses Palestinian genocidal rhetoric, promotes BDS and dream...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

Those who witness a miracle often do not recognize it, nevertheless...

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...Those who witness a miracle often do not recognize it, the sages taught us. We have become accustomed to a natural reality of being a fre...

(Video) Ayaan Hirsi Ali Speaks after Viewing "Crossing The Line 2"

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In this video Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks at a recent screening of our film, Crossing the Line 2, a new documentary from Jerusalem U that reveals...

When BDS Drops Its Veil: Campus Anti-Semitism

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...but the problem won’t be dealt with by ignoring the clear connection between the worldwide BDS—boycott, divest, sanction—movement and ant...