Miracle in synagogue: Grad fails to explode

http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticle PrintPreview/1,2506,L-4111075,00.html While 10 people were injured after a Grad rocket hit an Ashdod yeshiva's courtyard, a much bigger disaster was averted just several blocks away. A rocket which landed near a synagogue where several worshippers...

Weekly Commentary: Israeli doves failed mission – apologists for the Palestinians instead of defenders...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=53460 Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 18 August 2011 A reminder from the past: "... WHAT if they cheat? What if they take whatever we give them and demand even more, still exercising violence and terror? Within the...

PCHR Is Concerned Security Services Interference into Public Liberties in Gaza

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=53455 PCHR Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Press Release Ref: 85/2011 Date: 18 August 2011 Time: 12:00 GMT PCHR Is Concerned Security Services’ Interference into Public Liberties in Gaza The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over increasing assaults...

News Flash: New Phase in War as Terrorists Cross Egypt-Israel Border, Many Dead

http://pajamasmedia.com/barryrubin/2011/08/18/news-flash-new-phase-in-war- as-terrorists-cross-egypt-israel-border-many-dead/ This isn’t just another terrorist attack - it’s a major escalation, a new phase in the Arab-Israeli conflict in two ways. First, it is the bitter fruit of the U.S-backed downfall of the government...

Missing context for terror attacks in Eilat: Egypt demanded Israel cede Eilat in 2006

http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1435&sec=2&title=MISSING_CONTEXT_ FOR__TERROR_ATTACKS_IN_EILAT:EGYPT_DEMANDED_ISRAEL_CEDE_EILAT_IN_2006 Much of the media missed the context of the attacks conducted Thursday morning, north of the Israeli port city of Eilat. These attacks may portend the genesis of the next stage of the Arab-Israeli war,...

Looking Back, From Addis Ababa To Crown Heights

http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial_opinion/gary_rosenblatt /looking_back_addis_ababa_crown_heights On Aug. 19, 1991, a car accident in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn launched a perfect storm of violence, transforming a longstanding resentment among some blacks of Jews in general and neighborhood chasidim...

Did the White House ‘Cleanse’ References to Jerusalem, Israel From Its Web Site?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-the-white-house- cleanse-references-to-jerusalem-israel-from-its-web-site/ On Tuesday, The Weekly Standard’s deputy online editor, Daniel Halper, made a noteworthy charge against the White House. Following an article in which he discussed the ongoing debate over which country the U.S. believes Jerusalem...

Telling It Like It Wasn’t

http://www.thejewishweek.com/print/18829 In iconic New York Post page one photo, Isaac Bitton lies injured on Crown Heights street with his son cowering next to him. Twenty years ago next week, on the night of Aug. 19, 1991...

The Big Split in the Revolutionary Islamist Movement: Sunni and Shia Blocs Emerge

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/08/big-split-in-revolutionary-islamist.html A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the Sino-Soviet conflict’s effect on the Cold War era: the division of revolutionary Islamists into separate Sunni and Shia camps. Of...