TagsTagsThe Obama administration is not joining the international chorus of condemnation against Israel: Official: US Will Stand with Israel. I’m told there won’t be any daylight between the US and Israel in the aftermath of the incident on the flotilla yesterday, which resulted in the deaths of 10 activists. Regardless of ...
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Peace Activists, IDF, Barack Obama
The Israeli Navy boarded a flotilla headed toward Gaza yesterday, leading to a wild melee that ended in several deaths. The IDF is reporting that the “peace activists” planned the violence in advance, and released the following video — clearly showing the “peace activists” attacking the IDF boarding party with ...
If this report turns out to be accurate, it will be a very dangerous escalation in the Mideast conflict: Hezbollah probably has Scud missiles: US senator. WASHINGTON — The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has most likely acquired Scud missiles and improved its rocket-firing technology to the point of real danger ...
Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Scud Missiles, Hezbollah, Hisballah, Hesbollah
Yesterday I received several hate mails from those odd people who are desperate to find evidence that I’m “abandoning Israel” (I’m not, but since they can’t find that evidence they’ll just assume it’s true anyway), raving about a story published in Israeli tabloid Maariv claiming that Israeli nuclear scientists are ...
Israel, Maariv, Dimona, Nuclear Scientists, Visas, Outrageous Outrage, Obama Derangement Syndrome
Britain has expelled an Israeli diplomat said to be a “a senior Mossad official,” as a response to the use of forged British passports by the hit team that assassinated Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. Foreign secretary David Miliband also directly accused Israel of carrying out the killing, saying ...
Israel, Dubai, Benjamin Netanyahu, Assassination, Hamas, Britain, Mossad
Hillary Clinton dialed down the diplomatic confrontation with Israel this morning, pledging that the US has “an unshakeable bond” with Israel, and dismissing suggestions that the relationship between the US and Israel was at its worst point in decades. “We have an absolute commitment to Israel’s security. We have a ...
Israel, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, settlements, Benjamin Netanyahu
During Vice President Biden’s visit, Israel’s right wing Interior Minister suddenly issued a statement that the Ministry had approved a plan for new settlement building in East Jerusalem. This led to a minor diplomatic crisis, with Hillary Clinton saying that she considered it a direct insult. Which it obviously was ...
Israel, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, settlements, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Hate Mail
Here’s a surprise from the Middle East: the son of Hamas founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef spied for Israel for more than ten years. The son of one of Hamas’s founding members was a spy in the service of Israel for more than a decade, helping prevent dozens of Islamist suicide ...
During the 2008 Presidential election one of my main concerns about Barack Obama was that he would take a soft line toward the Hamas terrorist gang. And there were reasons to be concerned; to name just a couple, Obama was closely acquainted with several well-known Palestinian advocates in the US, ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Israel, Russia, Barack Obama, Terrorism
The Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy has obtained an English translation of the newly revised Fatah charter: OSC Translates the 2009 Fatah Charter. And there are some interesting changes in the new document; while it still calls for revolution and “struggle,” and refers several times to the “enemy” ...
So much of the news from Haiti is bad, but here’s a little bit of good news from one of the field hospitals set up by Israeli medical teams: Haiti Earthquake: Mother Delivers Baby In Disaster Zone. By Sunday afternoon, Moritz received the first few hopeful e-mail messages from Besser ...
Israel has been quietly developing an anti-missile system that really works, at least on the small scale — when you have hostile groups living right next door with no compunctions about using missiles to kill people indiscriminately: Israel says tests on Iron Dome missile shield have been a success. Israel ...
Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Palestinians, Hamas, Terrorism, Missile Defense
The Forward has an interesting piece on a little noticed fact about the Obama administration’s support for Israel: U.S.-Israeli Arms Cooperation Quietly Growing. WASHINGTON — Leaders in Washington and Jerusalem have publicly locked horns over the issue of West Bank settlements. And Israeli public opinion has largely viewed America’s new ...
The IDF has uploaded a video presentation showing the huge shipment of weaponry from Iran, intended for Hezbollah, that was intercepted this week by an Israel Navy commando force aboard the civilian ship Francop. [Video]
Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Smuggling, Weapons Smuggling, Hezbollah, Terrorism
Robert Bernstein, a former chairman of Human Rights Watch, had an extraordinary op-ed in the New York Times yesterday, blasting his former organization for its overwhelming bias against the state of Israel: Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast. AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 ...
Here’s an amazing speech at the United Nations by the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, about the UN’s latest attempt to demonize Israel, the Goldstone Report. [Video] UN Watch has more information, and a complete transcript of Col. Kemp’s speech.
United Nations, Colonel Richard Kemp, Israel, Terrorism, UN Watch, Gaza, Goldstone Report
Another eruption of antisemitism from Turkey. JERUSALEM, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A Turkish television drama series which depicts an Israeli soldier shooting dead a Palestinian baby, strained already tense relations on Thursday between Israel and Turkey, a strategic Muslim ally. Previously close ties between the Jewish state and Turkey, a secular ...
Just posted at the IDF’s YouTube page: On October 12, 2009, there was an explosion at a Hezbollah weapons storehouse in Tayr Filsay, in southern Lebanon. This aerial footage, taken shortly after the explosion, shows Hezbollah operatives closing down the area around the warehouse, driving in two trucks and removing ...
Lebanon, Hezbollah, Weapons, Smuggling, Terrorism, Israel, Video
The rumors that President Obama would throw Israel under the bus appear to have been greatly exaggerated. Palestinian moderates say hope in President Obama has “evaporated.” That’s the damning message contained in a memo circulated among the top leadership of the Palestinian faction Fatah, the faction which is led by the ...
I must admit this is a real surprise; after three years I was very afraid that kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was dead: Video Shows Captive Israeli Soldier in Good Health. [Video]
Violence broke out this morning on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, when Muslim protesters began shouting and throwing rocks at a small group of Jews who entered the compound. Twelve policemen and 15 rioters were wounded Sunday in riots on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and later in the Old ...
Here’s a video clip from the Israeli Defense Forces, showing what happened September 25, 2009, when Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza prepared to launch rockets into Israel to attempt random murder, unaware that their every move was being watched. [Video] In the above video an Unmanned Air Vehicle captures two Islamic ...
Following our earlier post about Ron Dermer, senior adviser to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his praise for LGF, an admirer in New York City by the name of Susan Saxe emailed the following note of appreciation: The Jews don’t want your sorry liberal ass defending them anymore, so ...
Here’s some unexpected praise that made my morning, in a Jerusalem Post article on an Israeli proposal to give some bloggers journalist credentials. The Government Press Office (GPO) is considering granting leading bloggers press credentials equal to those of journalists and reporters. Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to the prime minister, ...
Benjamin Netanyahu is calling out the United Nations: “Will you stand with Israel or will you stand with the terrorists?” It looks like quite a few delegates walked out on his speech. The speech is live on CNN. Here’s a thread to discuss... UPDATE at 9/24/09 3:11:00 pm: The speech has been posted at ...