Daily Archives: August 10, 2018

David Bedein responds to NYT piece: “Israel and Hamas Trade Blows Again. Was That a Negotiating Tactic?” – (NYT August 9, 2018) does not address the reason why Gazans fire on Beer Sheva. The Gaza war is...

Michal and I eagerly look forward to the Jerusalem Film Festival, held every summer in Israel’s capital. This year was no exception. When possible, we try to book an extended stay in this unique...

Is it time to reexamine the applications of traditional foreign policy paradigms in light of the complicated contemporary realities? Several recent developments challenge the understanding of limits of international interventions in political or diplomatic context. The...

Thousands of Christians have voiced solidarity with British Jewry amid ongoing allegations of anti-Semitism by Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. The U.K. branch of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) launched a “Christians Against Anti-Semitism Declaration”...

Following a well-worn pattern, The New York Times is again downplaying Palestinian belligerence, this time obscuring the fact that intensive Palestinian rocket attacks against southern Israel prompted a wave of Israeli airstrikes on Hamas site in...

Amazon is no longer selling a T-shirt that reads “Make Israel Palestine Again” amid outrage from consumers and followers of the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), a non-profit that tracks radical Islam. Promoted by activists from the...

The Trump administration said it “fully supports” Israel’s right to defend itself amid a barrage of rockets fired on the Jewish state by the Palestinian terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “It’s a very...

Interviewed by Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV channel, Sheikh Omar Nofal, a judge in Gaza’s Shari’a appeals court extolled the six virtues of martyrdom, asking: “How can anyone cling to this world after hearing all of these...

After an emergency meeting late Thursday, Israel’s security cabinet ordered the IDF to “continue taking strong action against the terrorist elements,” said the Prime Minister’s Office. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor...

Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon welcomed the new head of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). “Israel welcomes Major General Stefano Del Col, of Italy, on assuming the role as UNIFIL’s...