Monthly Archives: April 2024
No green light from Washington for Rafah mission, US envoy says
Despite reports to the contrary, the Biden administration has not given Jerusalem its approval of a military operation in Rafah—the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip—the U.S. State Department’s top Middle East diplomat said on...
UN official lauds Israel for more aid in Gaza but calls for ‘paradigm shift’
Israel has taken measures to improve the delivery of provisions in the Gaza Strip; however, there needs to be a “paradigm shift” to continue to meet the “immense needs” of the enclave’s civilian population “in...
When praying at a Jewish Holy Site is a crime
(Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Jewish affairs whose writings appear regularly in the American and Israeli press.)
When is it a crime for a Jew to pray at a Jewish holy site? When the...
Top Qatari official: No to negotiations with Israel
There can be no negotiations with Israel as the Jewish people are “slayers of prophets,” a top Qatari official told representatives at a recent Arab League summit, according to a translation of the speech...
IAF strikes in Lebanon after Hezbollah missiles hit Galilee
Israeli Air Force planes attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon throughout the day Wednesday after the Iran-backed terrorist group continued to fire heavy rocket and missile barrages at the Upper Galilee.
“IDF forces are attacking targets...
Hezbollah’s vast subterranean network in Lebanon is in a different league
In the summer of 2008, a group of Christian Lebanese from the Jezzine area were making their way by car towards the well-known Maronite summer resort town when it was suddenly forced to stop...
IDF Central Command head to leave army in August
Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox, head of the Israel Defense Forces Central Command, which covers Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, the Sharon plain, Gush Dan (the Tel Aviv metropolitan area) and the Shephelah (the Judaean Foothills), will leave his post after...
Jewish woman reports rape, assault to ‘avenge Palestine’
A 32-year-old Jewish woman in the Paris suburb of Gennevilliers was allegedly the victim of a horrific antisemitic crime this week. She says she was raped, kidnapped and threatened with murder by a man...
IAF strikes Gaza launch pads after rockets fired at Israel on Passover
Israeli Air Force fighter jets destroyed two Hamas rocket launchers embedded in a humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, the army said Wednesday, as the war started by the terrorist group entered its 200th day.
The...
Biden administration caving to BDS tactics against Israel
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is reportedly considering blacklisting the IDF’s Netzach Yehuda Battalion under the “Leahy Laws,” two statutory provisions that, according to the State Department, prohibit the U.S. government “from using funds for assistance...